Actionable Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

able to find the diamonds—that's what separates the Warren Buffetts and Seth Klarmans out there. The first person to find the diamond gets the highest rewards." Outsmarting The Public Markets The trick to doing that is the difference between View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Sameer B. Srivastava Abstract—We propose a framework of constrained agency grounded... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2012
News

Competitiveness at Risk

project is chaired by Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, who are joined by a team of HBS faculty together with thought leaders from other institutions. It aims to inspire alumni, other business leaders, and policymakers to take View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Walter A. Friedman and Geoffrey Jones. For example, on the subject of environmental sustainability, the authors observed: "It is odd that business historians have not devoted more attention to sustainability, given that, arguably, the View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

the classroom—and knowing that other first-years understood those references allowed us to build on prior knowledge with new perspectives and experiences. What was the greatest takeaway from the course? Morgan: My greatest takeaway was... View Details

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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

substantive hope, a hope that moves us through difficult emotions and leads us to take the next step forward. A practicable hope must be accompanied by action , and it must have an element of pragmatism that grounds it in reality .... View Details

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Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library

are safe, fearless and empowered to win with unbridled ideas. It is a practical guide for creating cultures where knowledge and innovation flourish because people feel safe to contribute their ideas—it also increased the popularity of the... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

Making Progress on Strategic Priorities

longitudinal studies, to address complex problems. US Competitiveness Project: The Young American Leaders Program was launched in 2015 to put US competitiveness research into action by bringing together small groups of high-potential... View Details

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

even "victory speech" about why saying "yes" to the deal you want is smart and in the other side's interests; f) constructive actions at the bargaining table informed by knowledge of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

decisions of whether to submit a job application, comparing the actions of those observing the badges with those who didn’t. The researchers found that exposure to information that a startup is backed by top VC investors increased job... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

31 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 31

Furthermore, a third experiment shows that people tend to discount the wrongness of crossing ethical boundaries to hurt or help others when the action restores equity. The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society

region, to develop longer-term networks of leaders who share best practices and collaborate on implementing new models and strategies. This helps us catalyze action and harness business to address society's greatest challenges. Who do we... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

thoughtful approach about manufacturing and think about, as Gary said, the longer-term implications of their actions for their companies as well as for the countries in which they operate. Pisano: One of our key messages is to get... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

Clear and decisive action coupled with direct communication with students is beneficial even if the details of the remote, virtual, or hybrid internship are not finalized. What we saw in 2020 was that students were concerned about... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

corporations as the main sources of innovation in our economy. Innovation proceeds differently in business ecosystems than in pre-industrial markets or ring-fenced corporations. Innovation in ecosystems requires collective action to both... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
News

Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research

accelerates the process of knowledge creation at HBS and leverages the expertise of the School’s faculty. For the 2022–2023 academic year, the BiGS Visiting Fellows’ work centers on race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality. BUSINESS AS... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

27 Jul 2017
News

Seeing a Way Forward

their place, it was not the way I wanted to have an impact,” she says. Leger then shifted her focus to social enterprise and the concept of “business at the base of the pyramid,” realizing that she needed more business knowledge in order... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

always in search of, is action. And the action that I'm seeing must include wealth sharing of some kind, must include the mention of money. I'm a businessman who also has a background in Black history. And I've melded the two together... View Details

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