knowledge workers - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

question, "Can Japan compete?", the simple answer is yes. The real question, according to the authors, is, "Will it choose to compete?" First published in Japanese in the spring of 2000, the English version of the book was released this past autumn.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

yield lessons for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49445 A Welfarist Role for... View Details

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

asked to refrain from discussing the diary content with colleagues.) By the end of the study, Amabile and Kramer had collected nearly 12,000 entries, what she describes as a “wonderful treasure trove of data.” "We have a window into how concrete events affected... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

C-Suite and the CEO what internal and external stakeholders are thinking and how this may affect corporate image in terms of credibility, confidence, trust, relationship, and reputation. In short, the new CCO must understand both the science and the art of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

badly. Other apparent areas of interest in the last 12 months included corporate social responsibility, marketing techniques, and, of course, the ubiquitous Lady Gaga. Here are the Top 10 most-read articles and 10 most-read working papers that appeared in HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

dynamic strategy that can be employed by firms capable of architectural innovation. The strategy involves using knowledge of the bottlenecks in an architecture together with the modular operator "splitting" to shrink the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

the quality of their own work and to deliver it effectively to clients. Q: What is important now about knowledge workers from both a business and a theoretical perspective? Where do you see beliefs about... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

they can answer it in Slack.” You Might Also Like: In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go? Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity? Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Experiment By: Acimovic, Jason, Chris Parker, David F. Drake, and Karthik Balasubramanian Abstract—When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

after an event passes, according to recent research based on a survey examining French firms with fewer than 250 employees during the global financial crisis last decade. Conducted over a seven-year period starting in 2008, the research shows View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

now at a level of reasonable safety to open up. Much media attention has been paid to easing restrictions—basically increasing the available supply of offices, restaurants, colleges, stores, and factories. “Will shoppers, diners, students, and View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

University’s Ran Abramitzky and Princeton University’s Leah Boustan—among the most knowledgeable economists on the topic of US immigration—reached a similar conclusion by examining the effects of anti-immigration laws passed in the 1920s.... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

stimulated by different ideas and perspectives. Importantly, these ideas do not necessarily come from the network members who are culturally different from you. Chua's experimental research found that cultural heterogeneity induced creativity for tasks that required... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s garment View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

other…Technology robs us of the close contact we seek, and are reinforced by, in the learning cycle." But respondents who telecommute don't see it that clearly. Alan Carswell points out that: "One main characteristic of tacit View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

they are not executed well at the stores." Boots on the ground matter a lot. "When there aren't enough workers on the selling floor, it's those ‘boring supply-chain activities' that are affected first," Ton observes. "If employees are... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

workers to attend when sick, including work overload, lack of backup, and understaffing. Some occupational cultures have the same effect, glorifying “toughing it out” as an indicator of work commitment. Finally, we can’t discount the fact... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

intense research with individual employees, try to make them partners in the research," she said. (HBS professor Nava Ashraf discussed this idea of co-producing knowledge in the Working Knowledge article,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

knowledge workers confronted with a barrage of data and distractions delivered by new information technologies? A reluctance on the part of managers to relinquish "ownership" over activities and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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