Knowledge Flows - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

School) How to Make Furloughs More Humane (Harvard Business Review) Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Consistent messaging to customers A problem with... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

rates. Economist Stephanie Kelton argues one reason the disconnect exists is the knowledge that a nation with its own currency can simply deal with deficits by printing more money. Only in extreme cases will this lead to greater inflation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

localities that help families resettle were utilized at a steady rate, while only reducing eventual employment by 2 percent. Tapping into AI in additional countries Finding ways to strike a balance between an unknown future flow of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

values, it can also neglect the unit managers’ knowledge of which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized to centralized hiring at our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

pumps they sell annually, but Grundfos is building the knowledge and infrastructure that will be necessary to scale. In Kalundborg, we saw circularity applied to energy as NGO Kalundborg Symbiosis presented Kalundborg Bioenergy’s... View Details

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

These candidates are trying to adjust to what the voters care about.” You Might Also Like: Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Is It Even Possible to Dam the View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

Jacobs stressed that the price tag for the transition is both known and huge. “Despite the massive capital flows into the Transition, the capital markets remain challenged when it comes to long-term oriented investments, to... View Details

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

Enabling Reliability, Validity, and Knowledge Spill-ins through Inferential Learning Activities Authors:James Oldroyd and Ranjay Gulati Publication:Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This exploratory study examines... View Details

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

competitive firms. August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows By: Soltes, Eugene F., David H. Solomon, and Denis Sosyura Abstract—We show that media coverage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

network, the contacts, the knowledge of tropical medicines and the knowledge of many countries where this disease was." Terrorism And Crime Professor Rafael Di Tella teaches the Business, Government and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

explains. “They were very entrepreneurial and had great niches. And now we have to pull all of them together to act as one company.” He reels off a trio of management challenges: retaining valued workers whose knowledge and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

investment flow adjustment costs in the developing economy. We calibrate the model to match the Mexico-U.S. trade and FDI flows. The model is able to explain (1) why U.S. shocks have a larger effect on Mexico than in the U.S. and hence... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

the changing social and economic environments in which consumers live, and that their offerings enhanced people's lives in meaningful ways. A third important factor in understanding how these entrepreneurs created such successful products, brands, and organizations is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

mitigation policies within its supply chain and in government policy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/caesars-entertainment-betting-on-sustainability/ Working Papers Market Reallocation and Knowledge Spillover: The... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

18 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

domestic savings in economic growth has been discounted in the past? How has your research advanced knowledge in this area? Diego Comin: There are several literatures that have studied the relationship between savings and growth. At least... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

14 Aug 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of “fitting in” and “going along”... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

considerably more than one-off diversity trainings or publicity campaigns that too often tokenize women and people of color. It requires changing the practices that dictate who power flows to in organizations. This entails a serious... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806148 Legal Aspects of Management: Increasing and Capturing the Value of Knowledge Assets, Module Note Harvard Business School Note 806-137 Describes the third module... View Details