Confidence In Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

industries in the host countries have benefited from the semiconductor manufacturers' capabilities. It's no coincidence that the entire flat-panel display industry emerged from semiconductor industry capabilities. The people who built the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

taking risks." Click to watch. Eleven years later, that bet is more than paying off. As chief strategy and knowledge officer, Fenton is part of an executive team that has seen NLNS expand from training 13 aspiring principals View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does disaster change leadership goals? What signals should leaders send... View Details

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

School researchers: Disregarding advice from colleagues could invite harsh backlash that just might damage valued workplace relationships, according to the recent paper Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice, published View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

content ... [with] aggregation and interpretation of knowledge [as] ... their core competency," all of which gives them significant competitive advantages in the educational market. However, this... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

explain what they were doing under the 1991 statute. To hold senior government officials accountable for all bailouts, Congress should extend the 1991 statute to any type of financial institution. Q: How has Congress tried to restore View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a... View Details

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

06 Mar 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

Business School, researchers tackle these issues through its Gender Initiative, which "supports research, education, and knowledge dissemination to accelerate the advancement of women leaders and promote gender equity View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

knowledgeable salespeople with "deep expertise in the categories they served." Against Amazon and other online retailers, these advantages fade. Online retailers have appropriated the strengths of category... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Should I keep control of my company? How do I turn potential into profit?... View Details

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/SDI Productions) Despite reams of material written about remote work in recent months, we know very little about the impact of remote management on performance. Perhaps it’s too soon. Until we can assess... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

of the market, it needs to successfully fight them. First, some developers see software as scientific knowledge to be shared "like the sharing of recipes among cooks." In fact, some describe... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

10 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

AI’s capabilities to help solve business problems, particularly in parts of the world with fewer resources and less access to technology. “The fact that generative AI was a little over a year old, and we could use it to advise several... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

In an email interview, Harvard Business School professor James Austin spoke with HBS Working Knowledge managing editor Carla Tishler about his work on collaboration and his ongoing research.Tishler: You talk... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

social mission, but also with their counterparts in the partnering organization. Perhaps this personal connection is at the nexus of the confidence and trust that allows these collaborations to develop.... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

capturing and disseminating knowledge than had previously been the norm. For example, although NASA implemented a "lessons-learned" IT system in 1995, a 2001 survey found that only a quarter of its... View Details