Knowledge Integration - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

develop the concept of interconnectedness as four conditions of an internal supply chain: a focus on system-rather than individual department-performance; routines within departments that are connected to current customers' needs; deliberate View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

thought-leadership position because of a failure to recognize the synergistic interplay between knowledge application and knowledge creation. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Mar 2014
News

From Marx to Marketing

play in helping the former Soviet states become integrated into the global economy. Vlachoutsicos would become a key player in that process. Beginning as far back as 1956, as a partner at his family business Ch. Vlachoutsicos Enterprises,... View Details

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

Revenues increased 115 percent year over year to $174 million, exceeding our forecast. Equally significant was the group’s ability to integrate the knowledge gained during the pandemic, complementing 116... View Details

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

property right allocations, we find that studio-financed films receive superior marketing investments compared to independent films and that these investments fully mediate the positive effect of vertical integration on film revenues. As... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

pumps they sell annually, but Grundfos is building the knowledge and infrastructure that will be necessary to scale. In Kalundborg, we saw circularity applied to energy as NGO Kalundborg Symbiosis presented Kalundborg Bioenergy’s... View Details

26 Oct 2020
News

A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

participants went away impressed. “I was excited to hear from Professor Henderson, Sir Ronald Cohen and Professor Gandhi,” says Chen. “Their knowledge of how the world is changing and their ideas on what can be done to improve it was very... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

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

HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

competition, which puts pressure on policymakers to improve institutions; information, which provides necessary knowledge to citizens that can help them push for improved governance; trade in institutions, which allows effective... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

Working PapersOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination (revised) Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Phenomenological assumptions—assumptions about the fundamental qualities of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Kaurman and Derek C.M. van Bever, also senior lecturers with prior leadership experience in the private sector. Huber recently sat down with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to discuss how an automotive executive ended up... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

at a time. JB: I cannot agree more. I think it’s critical for us to think beyond the boundaries of Harvard. The question for us, for our students, for everyone who has the privilege of being here is how can we use our access to knowledge... View Details

26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

based on fewer expenditures. For example, combining data sets may reveal new leading indicators of changes in consumer behavior. Tracking studies may have an edge over one-off projects. CMOs who trim costs by consolidating their budgets with an View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog

learning. This course thus aims to address a critical and timely need within the HBS curriculum by offering students a comprehensive and integrated approach for attaining success in their post-MBA role as advisors and counselors. Given... View Details

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

accuracy of audits. The authors note several reasons why this might be the case: Sociology studies have found that women tend to be better at both perceiving and integrating facts they observe, lending them a greater ability to notice... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

ship-from-store (SFS), to increase their store productivity and expand their integrated presence across multiple retail channels (i.e. brick-and-mortar store, web, and mobile; also known as omnichannel retailing). The Scale Of The Threat... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

invests significant resources in software such as Java and Linux that IBM does not own in order to integrate many companies' products and services for IBM's customers. Intel invests significant resources in university research (which it... View Details