Confidence In Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

increasing focus and intensity. In many cases, they are well-informed, well-organized and extremely passionate about advancing their cause." HBS Working Knowledge asked Spar and LaMure to elaborate on... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could (Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge There is a saying that every decision is political—not just View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

work to the compensation project, I am trying to deepen our knowledge of both the financial and the nonfinancial motivations and benefits for entrepreneurs. Although the compensation study controlled for differences View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

little experience competing for resources and bucking inappropriate processes within a stable, efficiency-oriented operating culture. In order to be confident that managers have developed the skills required... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

predictors. Taleb, in The Black Swan, worried that cataclysmic events (Sandy) are next to impossible to predict and too costly to prepare for, given the small probability that they will ever occur. Human beings by and large do not have... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

to research by Harvard Business School Professor Raffaella Sadun. “A CEO transition is a major organizational event, and communication inside the company is such an important aspect of that transition.” Sadun and colleagues describe how a CEO’s arrival creates dramatic... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

it. "We have the medical knowledge to do it. And it's not being done. Just under one-half of identified diabetics in this country don't have their blood sugar under control," she said. Diabetes... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

Hiring more minority loan officers could help people of color secure significantly more home loans and address one of the biggest factors driving the racial wealth gap, new research finds. In the white-dominated US banking industry,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

08 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

Imagine you are experiencing pain in your shoulder, and your doctor says you have torn a tendon. If the tear is big, she says, you will need surgery, whereas, if it’s slightly smaller, surgery is optional. Which size tear would you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

shared benefits; they don’t just benefit IBM. Making systems better for everybody is also good for your company. About the Author Kristen Senz is the growth editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto/Vladimir Vladimirov] Related reading... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

time MBAs pile into a field, it's a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989 crash. That optimism rests on the knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

surprising to us. It is unclear whether this reveals a lack of knowledge or actual uneasiness about the policies themselves. American competitiveness at risk Either way, the stakes get higher in times of... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Much like how disruptive technologies can threaten established businesses, the growing epidemic of AIDS has the power to blindside and possibly topple companies who choose to ignore the threat, participants concluded at a Harvard Business School conference.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

competitor Picplz (a poor bet, as was proven by history). In both these cases, the startups stood to benefit not only from the monetary investment, but also from the knowledge the VCs obtained View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge The health care system in the US... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

management that would qualify as a "profession," combining "mastery of specific knowledge with adherence to certain formal or informal codes of conduct and, even more fundamental, to an ideal of service." Graduates... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Sep 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

nuanced. This reflected what DDB identified as “a huge new challenge for CEO’s” and a complicated one, according to Rob Jones. But only three respondents addressed the question of limits on the practice. More about that below. Ernie supported CEO activism View Details