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22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence Too Nice to Lead? Unpacking the Gender Stereotype That Holds Women Back Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

social media editor for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto] Related Reading For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

These “frictions of geographic mobility,” as he calls them, could be solved by a work-from-anywhere approach. To be clear, this isn’t necessarily about working from home in your loungewear 20 minutes from... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

"standards," which are technical specifications that ensure that memory made by any company, so long as it meets the standard, will work as expected in any computer design. To this end, the... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

17 Sep 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills

Knowledge for a decade-and-a-half. Here are a number of articles and working papers you might find beneficial in upping your negotiation game. Negotiators Should Remain Cool And Collected. Right? The Role of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

by Nobel-prize winner in economics George Akerlof and economist Robert Sheeler of "irrational exuberance" fame. These authors cite the importance of what John Maynard Keynes once referred to as "animal spirits" in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

rankings for these environmental factors with the racial makeup of various firms. When he did, Zhang found that Asian employees scored highest on work environment, followed by White and Hispanic employees,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

field questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview.Lagace: In The Support Economy, you make the case that managerial capitalism,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
Case

Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?

By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg

In late 2018, evidence emerged that many of Google’s temporary help agency workers, vendors, and independent contractors (“TVCs”) were unhappy with the company. TVCs, who reportedly made up 49.95% of Google’s 170,000-person global workforce, had raised concerns of... View Details

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31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

The following articles were the most read pieces on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2012. Now two questions for you. What do you think was the most important business issue of the year? Fiscal... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

potential loss of secrecy. Many worry that core intellectual property (IP) might be compromised by working with outside innovators. While this is a theoretical possibility, the advantages gained in terms of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

this knowledge transfer that it moves from one geography to another.” Innovation transferred There are two reasons for that delay, he says. The first is uncertainty for all involved about whether knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

02 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

28 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

significantly influenced by where their colleagues worked at a given point in time, rather than just by where they themselves worked. Our results suggest how important it is to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Mar 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation

Keywords: by Ned Gulley & Karim R. Lakhani; Video Game; Web Services

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

Summing Up This month's column appears to have struck a chord with those who lament the continuing loss of implicit knowledge buried inside the heads of experienced leaders (termed "deep smarts" by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

statements for the purpose of deception. Reader responses to the story included surprising references to the 1st Earl of Balfour, the Book of Leviticus, and the 1966 sci-fi novel Colossus by D.F. Jones. In short, reader comments take our... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

challenge is to set a climate where psychological safety, accountability, and pressure to do the best possible work exist together. "We're in a new world, and our old management models don't fit as well as we would like," she says. "Those... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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