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    Reshmaan N. Hussam

    Reshmaan Hussam is an associate professor of business administration in the Business, Government and International Economy Unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a faculty affiliate at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty... View Details

    • 30 Jan 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Joachim Henkel
    • April 2011
    • Article

    Why Leaders Don't Learn from Success

    By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
    We argue that for a variety of psychological reasons, it is often much harder for leaders and organizations to learn from success than to learn from failure. Success creates three kinds of traps that often impede deep learning. The first is attribution error or the... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Innovation and Management; Leadership; Failure; Success; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias
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    The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education

    By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang
    For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details
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    • October 2003 (Revised November 2003)
    • Module Note

    Organizing to Learn Module Note

    By: Amy C. Edmondson
    Teaches a framework for managing in dynamic or uncertain organizational contexts, designed for either MBA or Executive Education courses. Offers a new perspective on how managers can help stimulate and guide a collective learning process in their organizations. The... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Business Strategy
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    • December 2023
    • Article

    Save More Today or Tomorrow: The Role of Urgency in Precommitment Design

    By: Joseph Reiff, Hengchen Dai, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman and Shlomo Benartzi
    To encourage farsighted behaviors, past research suggests that marketers may be wise to invite consumers to pre-commit to adopt them “later.” However, the authors propose that people will draw different inferences from different types of pre-commitment offers, and that... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • 05 Feb 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’

    Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Dorothy A. Leonard; Banking
    • 22 Feb 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

    HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2015
    • Module Note

    Power and Influence in Society

    By: Julie Battilana
    This module aims to help students understand how power and influence are employed, both to reproduce the status quo and to effect change in society. It first helps them to understand why, more often than not, power is used to reproduce the existing way individuals and... View Details
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    • April 1993 (Revised October 1996)
    • Case

    ABB Deutschland (C)

    By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
    Addresses the results and the lessons from the German restructuring effort by focusing in detail on the relationship with the works council and the actions taken for power plants and power transformers, and the sales organization. Closes with a "second wave" of cost... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Trade; Cost Management; Leadership Style; Management Skills; Time Management; Relationships; Salesforce Management
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Beyond Agency Theory: The Hidden and Heretofore Inaccessible Power of Integrity (PDF file of Keynote Slides)

    By: Michael C. Jensen and Werner Erhard

    There is far too much concern today about the conflicts of interest between people; for example, conflicts of interest between agents and owners—historically a favorite topic of Jensen—and not enough attention paid to the damage caused by an individual's conflict of... View Details

    Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Lawfulness; Production; Organizations; Performance Improvement; Agency Theory; Conflict of Interests; Trust; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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    • Teaching Interest

    Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs

    By: Tarun Khanna

    Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs (GCE) is designed for students who are interested in entrepreneurial approaches to the biggest challenges of our time.  Grand Challenges are near-intractable, global problems that offer the tantalizing... View Details

    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Integrity: A Positive Model That Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality Abridged

    By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron
    We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. Our model reveals the causal link between integrity and increased... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Performance Productivity; Information Technology; Knowledge; Moral Sensibility; Opportunities; Competitive Advantage; Legal Liability; Cost vs Benefits
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    • 29 Aug 2016
    • Blog Post

    First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business

    an effective general manager.  I never could have imagined the extent to which the required curriculum (RC) would deliver so much knowledge in nearly every essential aspect of business, from marketing to finance to operations to... View Details
    • 06 May 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Introductory Reading For Being a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model

    Keywords: by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron & Kari L. Granger; Education
    • 29 Jun 2009
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

    Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I build my business in this environment? What should leaders... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 10 Feb 2021
    • Blog Post

    What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

    dedicated to social justice, has dedicated her career to this work. She recently joined us at HBS to share her expertise, insights, and recommendations for action steps that will create anti-racist organizations. MEET DANIKA MANSO-BROWN... View Details
    • 27 Dec 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

    Research that explores how children benefit from having a working mom blew away the field for most popular feature article on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2015. With nearly 84,000 visits, twice the number of the second... View Details
    • 02 Jan 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2006

    In the six-year history of Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, some types of articles have always been popular with our readers. Want to generate a lot of reader buzz? Then write about negotiation strategy, managing IT, explorations of the View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Dec 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

    platforms. “How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers” was the most-read story on Working Knowledge in 2016. Other popular topics among our readers included workplace communication, negotiation, white-collar crime,... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel