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02 Jul 2024
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Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

Listen Better What Kind of Leader Are You? How Three Action Orientations Can Help You Meet the Moment Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

expenditures. Advertisers can get the most bang for the buck if they post their videos on YouTube and then motivate consumers to disseminate the ads for them, via email or social media. Getting an ad to go viral is among the cost-saving... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

company without the benefit of in-person meetings can make it challenging to build workplace relationships. So, instead of checking your email while you wait for colleagues to log on to a Zoom meeting, use that lull to spark a... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

oncologists. Among the study’s conclusions, “A combined crowd innovation and AI approach rapidly produced automated algorithms that replicated the skills of a highly trained physician for a critical task in radiation therapy.” In an email... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image created by HBSWK with asset... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

09 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 9

that the most popular rule is rational choice; it is used in about half the cases. To participate in the competitions, researchers are asked to email the organizers models (implemented in computer programs) that read the incentive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

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

Development and Demographics Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

26 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

You Might Also Like: Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup Feedback or ideas to share? View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

associated increase in electronic interaction. In short, rather than prompting increasingly vibrant face-to-face collaboration, open architecture appeared to trigger a natural human response to socially withdraw from officemates and interact instead over View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

during political debates by posting the question asked for the duration of the politicians' answers. Mike and I expect this will increase the penalty for dodging a question, and in the intermediate term reduce dodging. Does it work and what other steps can be taken?... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

contributor to this column, Stever Robbins, was provoked to send me an email that helps sum up the further questions that these views pose for us. In his words, "One way or another, we will become sustainable. I just hope we do it... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

Professor Herzlinger shared her vision for health care in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Herzlinger's next book, Consumer-Driven Health Care, will be published in January 2003 by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

These candidates are trying to adjust to what the voters care about.” You Might Also Like: Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

difference as follows: "Google goes through every Gmail that's sent or received, looking for keywords so they can target Gmail users with paid ads. And there's no way to opt out of this invasion of your privacy. Outlook.com is different—we don't go through your View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

professors (the most likely group to have strong job stability), PhDs/postdoctoral students (the least stable), and founders who had previously been employed at larger firms, small firms, and startups. In an email exchange, we asked Roche... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

not yours.” (Tarikh Korula) You should expect to commit a minimum of two to three hours per month with a coach and many offer email or text touchpoints between a regular cadence of sessions. If properly trained and experienced, external... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

do you have to stay home and care for your young child? Those things seem to be the bottleneck.” Just 5 percent of the total scientists responding to the emailed query reported working fewer than 42 hours weekly before the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud computing is... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

large-size organization that has become wedded to the economies and convenience of the Internet? For example, assuming that email even exists five years from now, will we be able to use it for business purposes? Will large data files have... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

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