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  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

large and small. She bolstered her own technical knowledge of how to probe more deeply into the causes of failure in hospitals by attending the Executive Sessions on Medical... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Lost in Transmission

By: Thomas Graeber, Shakked Noy and Christopher Roth
For many decisions, people rely on information received from others by word of mouth. How does the process of verbal transmission distort economic information? In our experiments, participants listen to audio recordings containing economic forecasts and are paid to... View Details
Keywords: Information Trnasmission; Word Of Mouth; Word-of-Mouth; Narratives; Reliability; Knowledge Sharing; Spoken Communication; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

to shorten development lead times and increase capacity; it can facilitate access to skills, capabilities, and intellectual property (IP) that a firm does not possess internally; and it can allow a firm to acquire relationships and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Teaching Interest

The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME)

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

RoGME is about one question: What is the proper role of government in market economies? We study the role of government as it plays out in the real world, using case studies to examine policies of current interest and importance.... View Details

  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions

Keywords: by Alvin E. Roth
  • 15 Mar 2020
  • News

‘Experimentation Works’ and ‘The Power of Experiments’ Review: Test, Test and Test Again

  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Ink: The Habit of Innovation

Leaders have gone to great lengths in the name of innovation—and yet far too often these efforts fall short, according to Scott Anthony (MBA 2001), a senior partner at the growth-strategy consulting firm Innosight and one View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • March 1, 2022
  • Article

Widespread Use of National Academies Consensus Reports by the American Public

By: Diana Hicks, Matteo Zullo, Ameet Doshi and Omar Isaac Asensio
In seeking to understand how to protect the public information sphere from corruption, researchers understandably focus on dysfunction. However, parts of the public information ecosystem function very well, and understanding this as well will help in protecting and... View Details
Keywords: Reports; Surveys; AI and Machine Learning; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Use and Leverage
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  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

thinking? HBS Working Knowledge staffer Manda Mahoney questioned Zaltman about the new book, published by Harvard Business School Publishing. Mahoney: You state that 95 percent of all cognition occurs in the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

inexperienced, and called McCain's judgment into question. Like any great brand, Obama has built up a bond of trust with the American people. His election has also given the United States the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

The Changing Nature of Research

for Research HBS funds research internally. By freeing faculty members from the constraints of seeking grants for their work, the School continues its century-long tradition of problem-focused research that... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage

Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks & Patrick Kalaher
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

The Business of Biotech

concerns regarding the medical sector of the industry. Privacy is an issue for those who worry that complete knowledge of an individual's genetic makeup could have negative... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • September 2019
  • Case

Shell: A Company of Opportunity?

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
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  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

Practical Guide for Scaling Impact by Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (MBA 1999) (Routledge) Encouraged by the emergence and early impact of social innovators on the African continent but frustrated by the slow pace View Details
  • September 2021
  • Article

Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time

By: Rebecca Henderson
Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges... View Details
Keywords: Architectural Innovation; Systemic Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 18 Sep 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms: A Synthesis

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
  • May–June 2015
  • Other Article

HRM at a Crossroads: Comments on 'Evolution of Strategic HRM Through Two Founding Books: A 30th Anniversary Perspective on Development of the Field'

By: Michael Beer
I agree with Bruce Kaufman's evaluation of the HRM field and the danger to its relevance if change does not take place in the field's almost exclusive use of normal science, lack of focus on organizational change and development and indifference to the development of... View Details
Keywords: Management; Performance; Human Resources
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  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

The Class of 1977

Desmond Wong A loyal HBS alumnus who says he “truly bleeds Harvard crimson,” Wong has played a leading role in every '77 reunion since graduation. He has served on the HBS Alumni Association Board and the graduate schools committee and the clubs committee View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong