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- 2023
- Working Paper
Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
Product cycles entail the mass production of new—and often increasingly complex—products on a regular basis. How do firms manage these changes? We use granular daily data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new... View Details
Keywords: Training; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Management; Production; Product; Organizational Structure; Auto Industry; Argentina
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and Nicolas Torres. "Organizational Responses to Product Cycles." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-061, March 2023. (Revise & Resubmit Journal of Political Economy.)
- 22 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Humans vs. Machines: Untangling the Tasks AI Can (and Can't) Handle
training saw a 24 percentage point decline in correct answers compared to non-AI-using peers, and those using AI alone saw a 13 percentage point drop. Lessons from AI’s first year So, how can knowledge-based businesses use AI well without... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- HBS Seminar
Brian Kahin, MIT
- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
productivity levels. But money is less meaningful as a motivator in the complex creative jobs that make up most work in our modern knowledge-based society. “With most of today’s employees, you’re trying to help instill intrinsic... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
career well in advance. Brooks recalls not knowing exactly when his French horn skills started going downhill, but musicians, similar to athletes, rely on precise fine motor muscles that often deteriorate with age, use, and injury. People in View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
advantage in “Black Swan” events like the pandemic, Rouen says companies should also see the value in retaining good employees during hard times. That’s especially important given that an increasingly knowledge-based economy will make... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
$4,000; the average white family has net worth of $140,000. A lot of that has to do with disparities in employment that exist, which have their origins in the education system.” College degrees have gained even more importance in a View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
fade, without peering through a telescope. That's because his stars aren't heavenly bodies but high-performing investment bank analysts. "My dissertation examines how firms can achieve competitive advantage in a knowledge-based industry,"... View Details
- 30 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years
"build cathedrals." This entails educating leaders who make a difference not just in the world, but for the world. As the institution looks ahead to the next century, there are key areas where new work is planned: The School must become more global, and must... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Baker Library Gets New Executive Director
at HBS after serving as director of Microsoft’s Knowledge Network Group, where she led a global organization of 100 people delivering information and knowledge-based products and services. She has previously headed information services in... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
in the knowledge-based biotechnology industry to forge balanced partnership deals with the financially much stronger pharmaceutical industry." A panel led by HBS associate professor Jonathan West discussed the issues raised by Klietmann,... View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- News
Providing Advantage and Opportunities for Disadvantaged Youths
makes them stronger and more resilient as an employee then many folks who have never faced any type of adversity in their lives. “So I think what our country needs to do is really embrace the fact that, if we are going to have a globally competitive country, we have to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
Finance in Emerging Markets–China offers a detailed analysis of China’s capital markets, ranging from the macroeconomic environment and political context to detailed microlevel study. Knowledge-Based Strategy presents a different view of... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
output has resulted in commercial products manufactured in a number of domestic and overseas industrial parks, also championed by Yeo. He, as much as anyone, has fostered the country's knowledge-based economy and set its future course.... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
for tomorrow: the knowledge-based spaces such as advertising, media, software, biotech, research, and genomics. The government doesn't really know how to grab onto some physical asset, because there are no interventionist rules and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
created the first online computing facility at HBS. His research focused on managing the implementation and growth of intelligent terminal communications systems, knowledge-based systems, and the design and management of private... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
estimates of corruption and study its relationship with organizational ownership. Book: http://www.cmi.no/research/project/?1473=the-international-handbook-on-the-economics-of Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
investors identify value stocks,” Wang says. Why the metric isn’t working One reason the metric became less reliable over time? The transition to a knowledge-based economy, the researchers say. Corporate investments in intangible... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
and the consequences of CEO succession and selection decisions for subsequent firm performance and strategic choices. Industry wisdom, company relationships, and technological expertise all matter in our new knowledge-based enterprises.—... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
manufacturing to knowledge-based economic growth. He notes that Kendall Square, the Seaport District, and the South End of Boston were transformed when businesses took hold after decades of disinvestment. “In the same way,” he stresses,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg