Specialized Scientific Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

research shows non-competes might impair innovation? The answer is likely lobbying and influence from special interests, particularly the established businesses that want to continue enforcing non-competes. These businesses can justify... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

create value and manage risk. Q: Most managers don't have law degrees, so who do they turn to get the legal background they will need to work with legal staff on the issues you identify? Will they need special training? A: I like to think... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

23 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and author of the forthcoming book, Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Booking isn’t alone. Other companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix are also taking advantage of new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect unit managers’ knowledge about which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

performance." Generally speaking, respondents favored schemes designed to reward long-term as well as short-term performance, encourage retention, recognize special needs of an organization, be based on the achievement of both... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

often a disconnect between practitioners and academics,” he says. Source: CMO Council Neale-May illustrates a pervasive paradox in academia: Research conducted at business schools often offers no obvious value to people who actually work in the world of business.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

Rebel Foods in India runs separate virtual-only brands out of the same facility, with each brand focused on a specialized cuisine such as North-Indian, Chinese, biryani, and burgers. Some national chains, including Sweetgreen, operate... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

money. A: In some sense money is just another asset, but it turns out to be a rather special asset. One of the reasons it is special is that there seems to be a relationship between people's holdings of that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

widespread culture of bad behavior—or at least, a lot of people looking the other way as misconduct is taking place, he says. “You think about Wells Fargo, and there were thousands of employees engaging in these practices over many, many years,” says Campbell, who... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

involuntary loss of knowledge in an organization. The type of organizational forgetting occurring now is creating more problems. Instead of relying on the lessons learned from two years of COVID-19 crisis management, organizations are... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

is an essential skill, and where the science of negotiation is headed. Negotiation is a core competence for life, "not merely an important skill to be wheeled out for special occasions," they argue. James K. Sebenius is the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

to do now, and to have any hope of doing that, we need to be integrating the specialized domain knowledge that managers possess into these tools and systems.” Marketers have long envisioned the potential for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

specialized global value chain GVC represents a "trade fragility" and that the paradigm behind the GVC needs to be re-assessed. Production networks shall become more diversified, rather than clustered. Also, the network should... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through production and design tools,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

is especially true in cases Ramanna and Henderson call "thin political markets," that is, when business interests possess a specialized knowledge unknown to other constituents in the process and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

scale; it's specialization. And that doesn't have to be central at all. Maybe you want to specialize the sourcing of your components in Taiwan, supplying regional assembly operations worldwide. But maybe you want to View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

outside facilitators, can help keep the process productive. Next, skills for managing a group process of analyzing a failure with a spirit of inquiry and sufficient understanding of the scientific method are essential inputs to learning... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

of externalities became additional features of the debate. The introduction of market imperfection arguments actually introduced significant complications: specialization in the "wrong" activities, i.e. those with lower levels... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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