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    Coming Through When It Matters Most

    All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest—when the company’s future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms,... View Details

    • 27 Aug 2014
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

    leadership in mobilizing people and resources in highly dynamic situations.” Each winter, 900 HBS students dispatch around the world to see businesses up close, learn what they can about how they are run, and share their own View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail
    • February 2015
    • Article

    'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology

    By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
    Most of society's innovation systems―academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.―are "open" in the sense that they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosure among innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of... View Details
    Keywords: Open Innovation; Cumulative Innovation; Incentives; Search; Disclosure And Access; Knowledge Sharing; Motivation and Incentives; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • 21 Dec 2021
    • Blog Post

    Top 10 MBA Voices Articles of 2021

    Mentor Directory’ through which we and 70 classmates shared our contact info on LinkedIn to extend our professional knowledge and networks to underrepresented groups. After two weeks and 200+ inbounds, it... View Details
    • 19 Jan 2021
    • In Practice

    Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

    Confront the powerful divides in America The Public Option health insurance proposed by the Biden campaign will weaken our economic status by adding to the national deficit and to Medicare’s unfunded liability. We should, of course, reduce the number of uninsured, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Working with Professors at HBS - MBA

    Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?

    By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
    User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. They are organizations composed primarily of users working collaboratively, voluntarily, and with minimal oversight to freely and openly develop and exchange knowledge... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Management; Knowledge Sharing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Strategy
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    • 20 Jan 2022
    • Blog Post

    Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

    peers in the same role proved to be difficult. All in all, though, I’m glad I did it. I stepped out of my comfort zone, learned a lot about the battery space, met great people, and practically applied the knowledge I’d gained in the HBS... View Details
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation

    By: Linda A. Hill, Maurizio Travaglini, Greg Brandeau and Emily Stecker
    There is a widespread consensus that innovation is fast becoming the principal source of differentiation and competitive advantage in today's knowledge-intensive economy. But until we reframe our understanding of what innovation and leadership are all about, we fear... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Practice; Competitive Advantage
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    • 08 Nov 2024
    • HBS Case

    What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

    War I, Eisenhower created a miniature battlefield replica and slept out in the open with his men as they practiced their strategic maneuvers. In that early officer role, he adopted a leadership strategy that he would carry all the way to the White House: He asked his... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 31 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

    recommendations for clients, not how you come up with them. In most firms, every analysis has a source noted as to how it was developed, so disclosure is critical. Even though clients will use AI themselves, consultants excel in combining AI with tried-and-true... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting
    • 28 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

    businesses amid the opportunities and uncertainties of developing markets throughout recent decades. Working Knowledge Editor-in-Chief Sean Silverthorne asked Gupta about his experience interviewing Kapur. Sean Silverthorne: Kapur comes... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
    • 18 Jul 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

    Starting a new job often brings excitement and high hopes of mingling with colleagues, sharing innovative ideas, and making a positive impact on an organization. Soon, however, a new employee’s excitement may start to wane, if the person... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
    • 11 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    Crafting a Nontraditional Path to Venture Capital and Private Equity with Morgan Sheil (MBA 2021)

    years at HBS, allowed her to pick up experiences, skills, and knowledge that would help her carve a path from chemical engineering and supply chain to climate operations strategy at KKR Capstone and climate investment at KKR ESG. Sheil’s... View Details
    • 13 Jul 2022
    • Book

    Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

    Like: Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray Empower Your Employees to Make Better Decisions Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 14 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

    most? Are these connections more important if you are somebody in sales versus someone in research?” You Might Also Like: How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others Why We Still... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 26 Jan 2024
    • Blog Post

    Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective

    Private Equity Club. Former interns and current team members join the session to meet students and share details about the program. After applications close in February, students are selected to move through the interview process, which... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making

    By: Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien
    In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart. Recognition refers to a class of cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced... View Details
    Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Cognition and Thinking; Power and Influence
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    • August 2001 (Revised August 2012)
    • Case

    BestDoctors, Inc.

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Seth Bokser
    Upon learning the news of a critical illness, patients and their families are shocked, saddened, fearful, and angry all at once. And just as soon as they catch their collective breath, they all ask the same question—a question that has the potential to infuse hope into... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Knowledge Sharing; Demand and Consumers; Health Industry
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    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    Support for Minority Creators When Migration Fear Is High." Research Policy 54, no. 1 (January 2025). Coordinating the Energy Transition: Electrifying Transportation in California and Germany By: Nicholas Goedeking and Jonas Meckling December 2024 | Article | Energy... View Details