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  • 07 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

finance—investing outside of the traditional financial system, usually in blockchain-based digital assets. She said that she was “already liking” Tronix (TRX) tokens, a crypto product whose founder was recently charged with fraud. Lohan... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 12 Apr 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Manufacturing to Design: An Essay on the Work of Kim B. Clark

Keywords: by Sylvain Lenfle & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Manufacturing
  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

talking about enlisting product users, critics, and experts for a fresh view. He says the question for this tension is: “How do you best sequence the knowledge of others inside and outside the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Credit: iStockPhoto No surprise: Race and gender were prime topics of interest for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge readers in 2017. Also popular were articles about research that gave us greater understanding about how leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

of reader e-mails, Jim Heskett wonders whether the term "servant leadership" is an oxymoron? Clay Christensen's Milkshake Marketing About 95 percent of new products fail. The problem often is that their creators are using an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Scientific Production: An Exploration into Organization, Resource Allocation, and Funding

By: Jerry Thursby, Marie Thursby, Karim R. Lakhani, Kyle R. Myers, Nina Cohodes, Sarah Bratt, Dennis Byrski, Hannah Cohoon and Maria Roche
Production of scientific knowledge is core to civilizational advancement in economic and material wellbeing of societies. Despite its fundamental importance, however, a systematic effort to quantitatively study the factors underlying scientific production, particularly... View Details
Keywords: Funding; Science; Knowledge; Research; Information Management; Resource Allocation
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  • August 2020
  • Article

Machine Learning and Human Capital Complementarities: Experimental Evidence on Bias Mitigation

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr and Rajshree Agarwal
The use of machine learning (ML) for productivity in the knowledge economy requires considerations of important biases that may arise from ML predictions. We define a new source of bias related to incompleteness in real time inputs, which may result from strategic... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Bias; Human Capital; Management; Strategy
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and Value Appropriation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel
Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect intellectual property (IP). We... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Value; Complexity; Intellectual Property
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  • March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case describes how a senior vice president of engineering at Google, Bill Coughran, leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing solutions for application... View Details
Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Leadership Development; Product Design; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

novel idea in the previous month. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/buhv4lJrYV50s7MdxGC9][/div] Workers with “variable pay” contracts—earning roughly the equivalent to hourly pay for workers in the US, with wages tied to their level of View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators You may think you are an ethical person, but self-interest can cloud your judgment when you sit down at the bargaining table, says Max Bazerman. The year’s 5 most downloaded research papers Working View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2015
  • Article

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel
Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Value Appropriation; Relational Contracts; Clans; Intellectual Property
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Joachim Henkel
Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Value Appropriation; Relational Contracts; Clans; Rights; Complexity; Intellectual Property
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    Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

    Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are ineffective or costly to enforce, modularity can be used to hide information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact... View Details
    • 05 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

    Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Make Furloughs More Humane (Harvard Business Review) Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 02 Jan 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2006

    What can we do to make performance reviews more productive and less distasteful? Should their objectives be scaled back to just one or two? Should they be disengaged from the determination of compensation and, if so, how? Are We Ready for... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2004 (Revised December 2004)
    • Case

    Metso Paper: Globalization of Finnish Metal Workshops

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Marikka Heikkila and Kalle Lyytinen
    Metso Paper, the world's largest producer of paper machines, aims to transform itself into a knowledge- and information-based service and solution provider for the paper industry by aggressively exploiting information technologies. In the fall of 2002, Jorma Hujala, a... View Details
    Keywords: Production; Customer Value and Value Chain; Information Technology; Corporate Strategy; Knowledge Management; Machinery and Machining; Expansion; Service Delivery; Manufacturing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Finland
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    • 01 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

    successful product managers, general managers, startup founders, and CEOs of mature technology companies. Blending technical skills and business management knowledge Like all students in the MS/MBA program,... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 24 Oct 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

    restaurants were created equal. Chain restaurants, in particular, were largely unaffected by the ratings, while the greatest effect was shown for independent restaurants. That makes sense according to economic theory, says Luca, since diners presumably already have... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • August 2004 (Revised June 2005)
    • Case

    Fate of the Vasa, The

    By: Alan D. MacCormack and Richard Mason
    In 1628, the royal warship Vasa was launched. It was Sweden's most expensive naval vessel ever built, costing over 5% of GNP. On its maiden voyage, the ship sailed 1,400 yards in its own harbor, heeled over to the side, and then sank. One third of the 150 crew and... View Details
    Keywords: History; Risk and Uncertainty; Technological Innovation; Ship Transportation; Product Design; Technology Adoption; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Product Development; Sweden
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