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- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
corporate roles is to improve upon traditional vicarious learning models. ©iStock.com/cacaroot Instead, Myers envisions a model of coactive vicarious learning. “The major shift theoretically is moving from a language of transfer, of... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
year, with the goal of making the world of finance accessible to broader audiences by providing a rigorous but accessible overview of the biggest topics in finance. Finance is “the language of business, the lifeblood of the economy, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
elaborate shell game. As Jonathan Swift, the greatest satirist writing in the English language put it, "Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." Some readers actually... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
since the bursting of the economic bubble in late 1980s. Multiple corporate scandals took place. Corporate Japan embraced the language of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing, but its true view was debatably rhetorical... View Details
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
leverage content from customers’ product reviews to identify their future needs. But here the human analysts are key players. They must review the selected content and formulate customer needs, because natural language processing... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
and everybody can use the same types of technology, gaining these kinds of edges and increasing your competitive advantage is pretty important,” Nagle says. Examples of other crowdsourced public goods in the digital world include programming View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
central criticism of the auditing institution—before Enron failed [in 2001],” says Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS, whose research focuses on business ethics. Let business practitioners know the research exists—in View Details
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
language and cultural barriers. One senior R&D manager in the United States notes, "We wanted to learn firsthand what was going on in centers of scientific excellence in Europe. Being present at a center of scientific excellence... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
wouldn't seize otherwise." "'Latent motivational energy'?" I'd teased Howard for years that he had a language all his own—"Howard-speak"—that people didn't always understand. "Latent motivational energy" was quintessential Howard-speak,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
critical dimensions to organizations that want to work toward parity, not for cosmetic reasons, but to improve performance and value: Attraction and recruitment. Actively seek candidates outside managers’ networks, and assess the language... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Research Summary
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
products of value to someone. The purpose of this chapter is to build a robust and versatile language that is capable of representing large technical systems. The language is based on elements I have labeled... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Dumas, an assistant professor at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, describe their findings in the paper Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate, forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- Research Summary
Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
used in the literature. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46750 Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility By: Liang, Hao, Christopher Marquis, Luc Renneboog, and Sunny Li Sun Abstract—We argue that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807148 PublicationsStrategies of Innovation and Imitation of Product Languages Authors:Claudio Dell'Era and Roberto Verganti Periodical:Journal of Product Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
principally through units called practices. Macro structural choices define and promote development of the practice portfolio. Publisher's Link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199235049.do Language Matters: Status Loss &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time? By: Reiche, Sebastian, and Tsedal Neeley Abstract— To understand how recipients respond to radical change over time across cognitive, affective, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Business Review What's Your Language Strategy? It Should Bind Your Company's Global Talent Management and Vision By: Neeley, Tsedal, and Robert Steven Kaplan Abstract—Language pervades every aspect of organizational life. Yet leaders of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
have ears, but do they use them? Jim Heskett's readers offer opinions on why listening might be a lost art. The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility Research by Christopher Marquis shows that a company's degree of... View Details