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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Professionals' Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities on Their Workplace Knowledge Work

By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Frank Nagle
Knowledge work is becoming increasingly challenging as pace of change in the knowledge frontier is increasing. Organizations have created multiple mechanisms to minimize knowledge gaps and increase learning such internal training, mentorship programs as well as... View Details
Keywords: Open Source; Future Of Work; Software Development; Knowledge Work; Online Community; Learning; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Performance Productivity
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  • 12 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

October. However, when the drug testing panel includes a proportionate share of Black participants, doctors are much more willing to write a prescription. Black patients, in turn, were more likely to trust a... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Africa on the Move

In February, nearly 1,200 participants from twenty countries gathered at HBS for the Africa Business Club’s 11th annual conference, “Africa on the Move: Transforming Quick Wins into Lasting Change.” With some countries experiencing growth... View Details
Keywords: clubs; Information
  • June 2012
  • Article

A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods

By: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury
One of the most rigorous methodologies in the corporate governance literature uses firms' reactions to industry shocks to characterize the quality of governance. This methodology can produce the wrong answer unless one considers the ways firms compete. Because... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Economics; Firm Organization; Firm Performance; Groups and Teams; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 21 Dec 2016
  • Blog Post

The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

groups typically divided work among each of the team members and the mornings were when the students reconvened to share their individual findings. While most others and I would read every case (okay, maybe... View Details
  • November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Oracle Corporation

By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
Oracle Corp., the world's second-largest independent software company (behind Microsoft) was the world's dominant supplier of database software. Oracle also sold application software, such as the popular enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

(Autodesk) entered a contractual agreement to share all project risks and profits. During the project, however, Autodesk was unsatisfied with the design progress and asked the project team to introduce a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Content Moderation with Opaque Policies

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Jesse M. Shapiro
A sender sends a signal about a state to a receiver who takes an action that determines a payoff. A moderator can block some or all of the sender's signal before it reaches the receiver. When the moderator's policy is transparent to the receiver, the moderator can... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Communication; Knowledge Sharing; Information Infrastructure; Media
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  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

as creating "shared value"-generating economic value in a way that also produces value for society by addressing its challenges. A shared value approach reconnects company success with social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

introduce residents and validate their information. If residents cannot prove their date of birth, the date they choose is considered the official date. After the team collects all the necessary information... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

immediately rose substantially. Executives felt that they had enough evidence to discontinue the fees, and the rest of the industry followed suit. Across town in Seattle lies Zillow, a company that distributes View Details
  • December 2024
  • Article

Proximate (Co-)Working: Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions

By: Maria P. Roche, Alexander Oettl and Christian Catalini
We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-start-up knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology coworking hubs in the United States. Relying on the exogenous assignment of office space to the hub’s 251 start-ups, we find that proximity... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Integration; Coworking; Microgeography; Business Startups; Technology Adoption; Diversity; Interpersonal Communication; Knowledge Sharing; Geographic Location
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  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Blog Post

A New Way to Recruit

day-to-day responsibilities in those fields, and how those positions may affect one’s career trajectory. As HBS students, we are all extraordinarily lucky to be part of a talented group of professionals willing to View Details
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

epidemiology, cost, and market share information given in the case to estimate potential cost savings one year after the introduction of biosimilars. The case also explores... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

identities can shape team members' side conversations in ways that create shared interests and information among those with similar identities,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana

ease given a company culture and infrastructure that supported remote work. Tiffany Layfield, Graduate Recruiting Lead at Humana, shared “A large percentage of our workforce already worked from home. Therefore, it was a no brainer to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health-Related Services
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut, Foxwoods, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

Provide Wisdom? By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We compare the performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes used in economic benchmarking. Our results show the peer firms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

Simons. By posing these provocative questions, you identify critical gaps in your strategy execution processes, focus on the most important choices you must make, and understand what's at stake in each one.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman