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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
What should business people in particular know about the pros and cons of attempts to treat and control diabetes—or indeed other chronic diseases? That was the focus of a lively case-study discussion among some fifty participants led by... View Details
- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
students learn how to diagnose and properly treat patients, they also confront problems of supply management, operations design, and communications. “As you are working on clinical skills that involve interacting with patients,” Huckman... View Details
- April 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Background Note
An Economic Framework for Assessing Development Impact
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Frank J. Lysy and Carrie Ferman
Discusses the differences between private and social returns and describes an economic framework for assessing a project's social return [known as the economic rate of return (ERR)]. The framework begins by analyzing the impact of a new project on private financiers... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Microeconomics; Investment Return; Framework; Projects; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Valuation
Esty, Benjamin C., Frank J. Lysy, and Carrie Ferman. "An Economic Framework for Assessing Development Impact." Harvard Business School Background Note 202-052, April 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
- 2022
- Article
Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas
By: Goran Calic, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis and Sébastien Hélie
While knowledge management researchers acknowledge that individuals transition from generation to implementation of ideas, these transitions are not fully understood. The current article focuses on idea elaboration – defined as the transition of an idea from an... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Innovation and Invention; Learning
Calic, Goran, Elaine Mosakowski, Nick Bontis, and Sébastien Hélie. "Is Maximising Creativity Good? The Importance of Elaboration and Internal Confidence in Producing Creative Ideas." Knowledge Management Research and Practice 20, no. 5 (2022): 776–791.
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Emerging trends Before the onset of COVID-19, a number of trends were... View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
These candidates are trying to adjust to what the voters care about.” You Might Also Like: Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
columnist and best-selling author). Ultimately, the printed word brought Levitt to HBS, when Edward Bursk, editor of the Harvard Business Review, asked the young University of North Dakota professor and author of a recent HBR article,... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project
By: Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers
The digital era promised to deliver a centralized repository of all pre-existing knowledge through mass digitization. However, concerns about cannibalizing demand for physical works have led publishers and authors to block the realization of this vision. We investigate... View Details
Nagaraj, Abhishek, and Imke Reimers. "Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project." Working Paper, June 2020.
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
a large majority of those who contribute to the open source community do so in order to learn and share new knowledge and skills, over half cite direct payment for their work or the chance to improve their... View Details
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
to change them.” Blame it on the alcohol Schlesinger’s student coauthors worked with Tam Le as part of the HBS Neighborhood Business Partnership, a field-based second-year course led by Schlesinger and... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
to age discrimination. But I reserve the right to raise questions about sensitive topics. Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
combined with more sophisticated methods of analyzing it, provide managers with powerful tools to help them isolate the effects of various marketing instruments. The framework developed by Gupta and Steenburgh helps managers think through... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
It is commonly accepted in economic circles that a country can grow faster by making key investments in sectors such as technology and in R&D and human or physical capital. But can a country also grow by... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard Business School View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?
and Prosperity to New Cities Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/hapabapa View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
Andre Kearns, whose work at the National Genealogical Society includes serving as chair of the diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, all these pieces of the genealogy industry—from AI-enabled technology built View Details