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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

expertise can easily slip out the door when an employee leaves or retires. You need to capture and transfer that knowledge. One way to do that is through coaching, and the following book excerpt discusses... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

    Proximate (Co-)Working: Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions

    We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-start-up knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology coworking hubs in the United States. Relying on the exogenous assignment of office space to the hub’s 251 start-ups, we find that proximity... View Details

    • Web

    Leverage LinkedIn - Alumni

    required) Learn how to optimize your LinkedIn profile with the knowledge of how recruiters actually utilize the platform. LinkedIn for Job Searching (login required) Leverage LinkedIn for both job hunting... View Details
    • June 2015
    • Article

    Does Google Leverage Market Power Through Tying and Bundling?

    By: Benjamin Edelman
    I examine Google's pattern and practice of tying to leverage its dominance into new sectors. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I explore the... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Antitrust; Google; Tying; Bundling; Competitive Strategy; Search Technology; Law; Information Technology Industry; Advertising Industry
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    • 01 Mar 2013
    • News

    Leveraging Female Talent

    The research of HBS professor Boris Groysberg centers on a question that troubles many managers: How do I hire and develop top performers who will contribute to my company's success? The author of Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement

    By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
    This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The... View Details
    Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decisions; Cost; Investment; Investment Return; Profit; Revenue; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Performance Efficiency; Strategy
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    • 02 Dec 2017
    • News

    A Leveraged Investment

    time between the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and the United States, both stress that attending OPM improved their businesses as well as their personal lives. “HBS enriched us tremendously,” says Hesham.... View Details
    • November 1989 (Revised March 2000)
    • Case

    Wisconsin Central Ltd. Railroad and Berkshire Partners (A): Leveraged Buyouts and Financial Distress

    By: Michael C. Jensen, Willy Burkhardt and Brian Barry
    Wisconsin Central Ltd. is a regional railroad formed in a leveraged buyout, which is currently in default on its loan covenants. The case uses this situation to examine the financial structure of a typical LBO association and its internal control mechanisms and... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Condition; Financing and Loans; Corporate Finance; Rail Industry
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Does Who Helps You Impact Your Behavior? Examining the Effects of Social Interactions on Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities

    By: Eunkwang Seo, Frank Nagle and Sonali K. Shah
    Online communities provide vibrant forums for knowledge sharing and are increasingly being used by individual users and firms to source knowledge and create and capture value. Yet, there is much to learn about how the actions of community members affect other members,... View Details
    Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Development; Innovation; Reciprocity; Knowledge Sharing; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Interpersonal Communication
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    • March 2010 (Revised February 2011)
    • Case

    Cognizant 2.0: Embedding Community and Knowledge Into Work Processes

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Thomas H. Davenport
    Knowledge management has been a high priority for Cognizant Technology Solutions since its inception since its global delivery model requires the global sharing of knowledge. Its first major tool was called the Knowledge Management Appliance but as Web 2.0 tools came... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Cooperation; Information Technology Industry
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing

    By: Bradley R. Staats, Melissa Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
    This research examines how teams organize knowledge sourcing (obtaining access to others' knowledge or expertise) and investigates the performance trade-offs involved in two approaches to knowledge sourcing in teams. One approach a team can take is to specialize, such... View Details
    Keywords: Information Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Quality; Groups and Teams; Information Technology Industry; India
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    • November 2002
    • Case

    Siemens ShareNet: Building a Knowledge Network

    By: Alan D. MacCormack, Sven Volpel and Kerry Herman
    Describes the development of ShareNet, an innovative knowledge management system used by a division of Siemens. ShareNet attempts to capture the knowledge and experience of Siemen's many dispersed sales and marketing units around the globe, making it available to all.... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Investment Return; Revenue; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Management; Sales
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    • 06 Dec 2013
    • News

    Prescription: Leverage Human Nature

    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Knowledge Work, Craft Work, and Calling

    Social critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements of work that have been... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Working Conditions; Production; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Employees
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    • 8 Aug 2008 - 13 Aug 2008
    • Conference Presentation

    Using M&A as a Context to Study Knowledge Transfer, Learning, and Coordination in Organizations

    By: Ranjay Gulati
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    • September 2018
    • Article

    Knowledge Integrators and the Survival of Manufacturing Clusters

    By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano
    Over the past two decades, the greater prevalence of global supply chains has had contrasting effects on Western manufacturing clusters. While some of them dwindled, others proved resilient. Contributing to the recent literature on co-located clusters and clusters'... View Details
    Keywords: Production; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Strategy; Competition
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    • 09 Jul 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Performance Pressure as a Double-Edged Sword: Enhancing Team Motivation While Undermining the Use of Team Knowledge

    Keywords: by Heidi K. Gardner
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    What Is Your Problem? The Importance of ‘Problem Storming’ for Crossing Knowledge Boundaries

    By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf
    In this study, I focus on the emergent processes and practices enacted when using crowdsourcing to solve R&D problems that experts are challenged with. While the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on the online process, this study looks at the full process that takes... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Nasa; Problem Solving; Problem Formulation; Knowledge Boundaries; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges
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    • 10 Aug 2015
    • News

    Leveraging Veterans’ Competitive Advantage

    somehow victims. I don’t believe they are.” Describing his company’s mission as “helping organizations excel by leveraging America’s best talent,” the former Marine artillery and intelligence officer says... View Details
    • 06 Oct 2014
    • Blog Post

    Leveraging LinkedIn to Recruit Candidates

    It is no surprise that recruiters are turning to social media, and particularly LinkedIn, to source prospective employees. Here are 5 tips for using LinkedIn as part of your recruiting strategy (whether or... View Details