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- June 2021
- Article
Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
We investigate how knowledge similarity between two individuals is systematically related to the likelihood that a serendipitous encounter results in knowledge production. We conduct a natural field experiment at a medical research symposium, where we exogenously... View Details
Keywords: Cognitive Similarity; Innovation; Knowledge Production; Natural Field Experiment; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Relationships
Lane, Jacqueline N., Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?" Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 6 (June 2021).
- 10 May 2023
- News
Students Strive to Solve Climate Change
plans to expand the company to other African nations; Angela Son will focus on what the clean economy transition means for the future of work; Karan Khimji cofounded 44.01, which eliminates CO2 from the... View Details
Keywords: Carbon capture
- 17 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- News
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
forces at work in today's digital economy. Two years later, Christensen expounded on his theories in his groundbreaking book, The Innovator's Dilemma. Their HBS colleagues have been adding to innovation... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2024
- News
Welcoming the MBA Class of 2026 to Harvard Business School
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Here's a snapshot of department stores today: Regional brands have all but disappeared; larger players like Federated and May are merging their multi-brand companies, and consolidation continues. Meanwhile, all sorts of retailers from single-brand stores View Details
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
From Super Bowl to STEM Bowl
and give middle school students a window into the tech future. Members of the HBS Association of Northern California's Community Partners Program worked with the Santa Clara Office of Civic Innovation (OCI) View Details
- 14 May 2013
- News
Leslie Perlow: How to Have Your Downtime -- Without Missing a Beat
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Scott Royster (MBA 1992) cofounded Maarifa Education to help provide high-quality schooling for Africans. “In Africa, roughly 5 percent of the population has completed university. We want to be part of the... View Details
- 30 Aug 2021
- News
Kominers’s Conundrums: A Heist Leads to a Virtual Adventure
- 24 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Learning to Code at Business School
recent graduates who took CS50 to learn what the class is all about. Samuel Gooch (MBA 2015) worked in renewable energy consulting before HBS and is now an engineering program manager at Apple. Sloan... View Details
- Research Summary
How will Web 2.0 technologies contribute to 'Enterprise 2.0?'
Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, wikis, tags, RSS, and open APIs are clearly having an impact on the public Internet. Will they also be important additions to Intranets?
I believe that these tools are likely to have their largest impact inside companies. ... View Details
- 21 Sep 2018
- News
Joyner to Receive Harvard’s DuBois Medal
Center Honors. The award will be presented by Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research on October 11 at Sanders Theatre. The DuBois Medal is given to individuals who have made significant contributions View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
their lives and their ambitions, it invariably makes them think, “Maybe I could do much more.” Part of that is professional success, but part of that is also private. What difference do you want to make? Is it related View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
information." Howe has big expectations for Ubiquitous Energy. "There are two industries I think will shape the global economy over the next decade: health care and energy. It's exciting to work in one of... View Details
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
using them can’t use the technology correctly. “AI tools might be good at predictions, but, if they are not used properly, there is no value in investing in such tools,” Choudhury says. Choudhury aims to fill that gap with a new View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
questions are finally focusing on the health-care needs of the poor. Some teams, for example, are working on genetic modifications that would render the mosquito unable to transfer malaria. Those... View Details
- 22 Nov 2019
- News