Knowledge Use and Leverage - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

spotty, thanks to continuing internecine rivalries within the Republican Party.Trump's comparative advantage is in social media. He used controversial tweets, sometimes incorporating personal attacks, to dominate the news cycle during the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

2010
Working Paper

Course Materials For: 'Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological Model'

By: Werner H. Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This course is designed to leave students being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self-expression - rather than attempting to learn the characteristics, styles, and skills of noteworthy leaders, and then trying to remember and apply them... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Leadership Development; Research; Science; Attitudes

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01 Jun 2003
News

South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

A strong commitment to community service is a given for most HBS clubs — the challenge lies in determining the most efficient means of leveraging the skills and interests of club members to create change.... View Details

Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

of their home regions. Using a unique dataset of Chinese and Indian herbal patents filed in the United States, we find that an increase in the supply of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors increases... View Details

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

for idiosyncratic products that features the optimal stopping structure and a seller that learns about item-specific demand through the selling process. The model is estimated using novel panel data of a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

incremental shifts towards sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book's distinctiveness lies in the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Apr 2024
Research & Ideas

When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge

For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details

Keywords: by Glen Justice

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

A year ago, discussions of the business of digital media may have focused on the plateauing ebook market or the diminishing pay for content providers. But after the 2016 presidential election, in which Russian operatives allegedly used... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

more effective negotiator, and motivating great work from others. Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 10 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2010. Now... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

German Soccer League over a season. Our research results show that leaders can reinvigorate a failing business using team members already in charge, and without large-scale change of direction. We observed... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

knowledge loss, identify the deep smarts essential to their business, use techniques for transferring knowledge when its loss is imminent, identify View Details

Dorothy A. Leonard

Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry

27 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

within-firm processes. By doing so, we may be overstating what progress has been made on employment integration and ignoring other avenues of intervention that may give greater leverage for further... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2016
News

Making It Possible to Explore and Grow

is important,” Friedlander continues, “but telling the right story about it moves a company forward.” Realizing that he lacked the business knowledge to craft such a story with credibility and impact,... View Details

2017
Article

Refugees Misdirected: How Information, Misinformation and Rumors Shape Refugees’ Access to Fundamental Rights

By: Melissa Carlson, Laura Jakli and Katerina Linos

The global refugee regime represents one of the few generous commitments governments offer to outsiders. Indeed, few persons fleeing armed conflict actually claim international protection upon first arriving in Europe, even though the benefits of legal protection are... View Details

Keywords: Refugees; Knowledge Dissemination; Trust; Risk and Uncertainty; Rights; Europe

Citation

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01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

expectations; create and implement an effective customer-access strategy; capture and leverage the customer’s voice to set priorities and improve... View Details

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Many claims will be made over the next few weeks View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

products in the B2B marketplace, this book provides specific knowledge of use to people in the cleantech, energy efficiency, and resource efficiency space. It is packed with... View Details

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