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- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars. Bower and Gilbert recently sat down with HBS Working View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
low "excludability" in the sense that the designed artifact must be shared. Our paper is based on an empirical study of a commons organization created to design new school buildings. We argue that the design commons organization induced teachers to volunteer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from the home country. This is not... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
effect of variation in experience on performance. The problem is that variation in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates coordination challenges. We hypothesize that team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
finance value different sets of skills: innovating in S&E calls for in-depth knowledge and/or interest in a specific subject area, whereas finance tends to value a combination of general analytic skills and social skills over academic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
and Organizational Capabilities Authors:R. Gibbons and R. Henderson Abstract A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
several aspects including familiarity with systems, knowledge of co-workers, adjusting to the work culture of the firm, and most of all developing processes in harmony with colleagues. To assist new hires in getting up to speed, firms... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
it matter, in terms of performance, if people have more good days than bad days? Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer's new stream of research, based on more than 12,000 diary entries logged by knowledge workers over three years, reveals the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
wills to a search for fairness principles. Fisher did not create knowledge of the deductive, experimental kind most common in social science research. Yet Roger and his colleagues developed frameworks of aphorisms that, on average,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
design and marketing strategies to those of Facebook. The market landscape of SNSs in China had changed drastically since Wang founded Xiaonei.com, with domestic and local competitors flocking into the market. With all his experience and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
firms in order to find new measures of strategy and to understand their linkages to organizational structure within such firms. It shows how the core knowledge required for decision making and the coordination challenges in these firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
interests. Our responsibility—and therefore my responsibility—is to dive deep into these issues, to create deep knowledge with power in practice, to educate generations of students who see and understand and feel the importance of these... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
The analysis finds no impact of financial incentives on learning but significant effects of both goal setting and counseling on real financial outcomes. These results identify important complements to financial education that can bridge the gap between financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
management of innovation and conclude with research opportunities. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2362855 Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Joachim Henkel Abstract—Modularity is a means of partitioning... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
skills of noteworthy leaders and then trying to remember and apply them where appropriate. The course is not designed to merely leave the students with knowledge (that is not designed to leave students "knowing" about leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
multichannel, the challenges of crafting multichannel retailing strategies and opportunities for creating synergies across channels, key retail mix decisions facing multichannel retailers, and the dynamics of multichannel retailing. We synthesize current View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
organizations—don't use their access to knowledge and don't recognize how closely tied we are to each other and how much the future of life on this planet depends on making wise, sustainable decisions, then just like the environment we're... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
a broad view of the market and may be less optimistically biased than internal management, but on the other hand, they may not have the depth of knowledge to understand the long-term view. So MacLeod's goal was clear: get IR-generated... View Details