Knowledge Integration - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

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 other side's internal conflicts (e.g., not... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

wills to a search for fairness principles. Fisher did not create knowledge of the deductive, experimental kind most common in social science research. Yet Roger and his colleagues developed frameworks of aphorisms that, on average,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

American and Caribbean region had seen changes such as expansion of the middle class, emergence of a new business class, and integration with foreign trade. Additionally, the region had faced challenges such as poverty, education,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

values, it can also neglect the unit managers’ knowledge of which individuals would best match local conditions. We use difference-in-differences analyses to examine the effects of a switch from decentralized to centralized hiring at our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

efficiency and long-term adaptability are inherently incompatible. Organization theorists have conceptualized Abernathy's dilemma as the challenge of balancing exploitation and exploration. Exploitation leverages existing knowledge and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

vulnerable are economic interventions to capture by politicians, how are captured resources used, and how costly are the resulting distortions? This paper answers these questions in the context of the credit market in India. Integrating... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Joachim Henkel Abstract—Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. When state-sanctioned intellectual property (IP) rights are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

relentless execution—efficient, timely, consistent production and delivery of goods or services—is the surefire path to customer satisfaction and positive financial results. But this is a myth in the knowledge economy, argues Edmondson, a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

create value. We extend this theory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with respect to intellectual property (IP) allows firms to better capture value in situations where knowledge and value... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

across countries and not target only premium tiers? Will the takedown request lead to other artists considering a defection from the service, and if so, what can Spotify's executives do to prevent others from leaving? And, as it is only a matter of time before the news... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

implications of the findings for the literature on self-control and for marketers as well as consumers are discussed. Harnessing Our Inner Angels and Demons: What We Have Learned About Want/Should Conflicts and How That Knowledge Can Help... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

The new capabilities and vast quantities of data that smart, connected products offer are redefining the activities of the core functions of companies—sometimes radically. As software and cloud-based operating systems become integral to... View Details

06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

inventors, including knowledge spillovers and agglomeration and the concentration of spinoffs. This work investigates a possible antecedent of inventor mobility: regional variation in the enforcement of postemployment non-compete... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

and written about Apple for the last decade, generating several case studies. His latest case, Apple Computer 2004, co-written with research associate Debbie Freier, was recently published by Harvard Business School Publishing. Yoffie sat down with HBS Working View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

management track were often placed directly into sales positions at Abbott, and then advanced primarily through this particular function. Integration of the different functions of the firm occurred at the top of their divisions (there... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

humility. Multinationals want to exploit the tremendous opportunities in emerging markets, but they need to carefully evaluate the extent to which they have the local knowledge and capacity to fully exploit those opportunities. Segmenting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details