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09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

adoption, participants are no better than others. Little evidence suggests that adopting such programs leads participants to improve faster, says Toffel. Government-initiated programs, however, show more mixed results. Toffel met with HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Mar 2020
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Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

Instagram and look for the “Office Hours” story series. You can also follow HBS Working Knowledge on Twitter (@HBSWK) and Facebook. About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

2012
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Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

By: Amy C. Edmondson

Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those... View Details

Keywords: Change; Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Innovation and Invention; Management; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Research; Strategy; Complexity; Value

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23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

concept of "Enterprise 2.0"—a term coined by McAfee on the general idea of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used in business—popped up on Wikipedia, McAfee beamed. "I was bizarrely proud when my work rose to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

14 Sep 2020
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You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

us.” About the author Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading Master the Team Meeting 'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

19 Sep 2024
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Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

they can answer it in Slack.” You Might Also Like: In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go? Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity? Does Hybrid Work... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Apr 2024
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Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters

what will work. Published with permission by Springer. Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 May 2020
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The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

Business School) How to Make Furloughs More Humane (Harvard Business Review) Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge If risk of... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

18 Apr 2023
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The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

are external hires, and roughly two-thirds are “complete outsiders,” finds a recent working paper by Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

18 Jun 2012
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Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) reveals that you're much less likely to stereotype by gender if you apply an... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

11 Dec 2023
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Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

transforming how work is done and how people are paid for it. This heightened tension between moral and material goals may be nowhere as intense as it is in journalism, a field with strong ethical convictions at its core, but whose... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

09 Apr 2024
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Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

Social Circle Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image created with elements generated by Midjourney, an artificial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

March 2021
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Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Ashley V. Whillans, Leslie Perlow and Aurora Turek

Past research has focused on understanding the characteristics of work that are fully virtual or fully collocated. The present study seeks to expand our understanding of team work by studying knowledge workers' experiences as they were suddenly forced to transition to... View Details

Keywords: Team Work; Activities; Virtual Work; Digital Technologies; Groups and Teams; Health Pandemics; Internet and the Web; Adaptation

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13 Jan 2003
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Making Biotech Work as a Business

for example, was a banner year for bad news, with thirty late-stage clinical failures of biotech drugs, he said. The online magazine Signals, which is published by Recombinant Capital, a consulting firm that View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

24 Aug 2020
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How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

Luca says. In the study of small-business employees by Luca and his colleagues, 29 percent of Alignable members reported that moving to remote work increased their productivity. Among NABE members, that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

17 Feb 2003
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Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

have tried to make use of knowledge about the stocks a given fund holds. What is unique in our work is that in rating each fund, we look at the overlap between that fund's holdings and the holdings of every... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

09 May 2023
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Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/Oscar... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Feb 2022
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When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks, published on February 15th 2022 by Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

27 Apr 2020
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How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Direct reports: The new employee should start meeting with their direct reports via videoconferencing during... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

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