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- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
A new study of startups sharing a coworking space offers a new wrinkle in the debate over work-from-anywhere: Proximity matters, especially close proximity, to spread knowledge between disparate enterprises.... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- June 2015
- Article
Looking Beyond Mau Mau: Archiving Violence in the Era of Decolonization
Elkins, Caroline M. "Looking Beyond Mau Mau: Archiving Violence in the Era of Decolonization." American Historical Review 120, no. 3 (June 2015): 852–868.
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
are working around the world to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. What are you working on this summer? I am spending this summer working at City Fund in... View Details
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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society
Previous Previous Next Previous Next Where do we host? We partner with HBS's Global Research Centers to host each Roundtable. We rely on the research centers’ deep knowledge of the local context for the topics we discuss and their... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
meet great people, and practically apply the knowledge I’d gained in the HBS classroom. Making an Industry Pivot Post-Internship The startup experience put me at a career crossroads by August 2021. Going in,... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- December 2011
- Article
Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?
By: Shawn A. Cole, Thomas Sampson and Bilal Zia
Financial development is critical for growth, but its micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We... View Details
Keywords: Price; Knowledge; Demand and Consumers; Emerging Markets; Banks and Banking; Education; Finance; Behavior; Service Operations; Financial Services Industry; India; Indonesia
Cole, Shawn A., Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia. "Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?" Journal of Finance 66, no. 6 (December 2011): 1933–1967.
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Global Leadership Roundtables | Institute for Business in Global Society
Previous Previous Next Previous Next Where do we host? We partner with HBS's Global Research Centers to host each Roundtable. We rely on the research centers’ deep knowledge of the local context for the topics we discuss and their... View Details
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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog
occupy policymaking positions at some point in their careers. The skills and knowledge it develops, however, are increasingly valuable to the broad range of businesses, non-profit organizations, and civil... View Details
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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
Tools & Resources Explore this page to find detailed educational resources that will inspire you to tackle society’s most pressing issues. Our resources include in-depth reports, insights from our Institute for Business in Global Society... View Details
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Why Do Consumers Contribute to Connected Goods? A Dynamic Game of Competition and Cooperation in Social Networks
Social network platforms and media rely on the voluntary contributions of individual users to stay relevant. Consumers (users) contribute content such as photographs, videos, tweets etc.: these are available to any of their friends or peers, but not... View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
creating welcoming environments for LGBTQ+ employees host conferences for their industries. These events allow companies to share knowledge about the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce as well as the issues specific to the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 2020
- Working Paper
Draw Near to Go Far: The Role of Convergence in Capitalizing on Exploration
By: Carolyn Fu
Organizations are often advised to engage heavily in exploration in order to succeed – to cast a wide net for diverse solutions that are superior to what they currently exploit. However, what is the organization to do when the fruits of its exploration are inconsistent... View Details
Fu, Carolyn. "Draw Near to Go Far: The Role of Convergence in Capitalizing on Exploration." Working Paper, April 2020.
- 2023
- Article
Evidence from the First Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) Randomised Controlled Trial in India: SMAs Increase the Satisfaction, Knowledge, and Medication Compliance of Patients with Glaucoma
By: Nazlı Sönmez, Kavitha Srinivasan, Rengaraj Venkatesh, Ryan W. Buell and Kamalini Ramdas
In Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs), patients with similar conditions meet the physician together and each receives one-on-one attention. SMAs can improve outcomes and physician productivity. Yet privacy concerns have stymied adoption. In physician-deprived nations,... View Details
Sönmez, Nazlı, Kavitha Srinivasan, Rengaraj Venkatesh, Ryan W. Buell, and Kamalini Ramdas. "Evidence from the First Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) Randomised Controlled Trial in India: SMAs Increase the Satisfaction, Knowledge, and Medication Compliance of Patients with Glaucoma." e0001648. PLoS Global Public Health 3, no. 7 (2023).
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
After serving significant stints with Booz Allen, Yahoo! and Facebook, Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) can justifiably claim expertise in strategy, consulting, and social media. Although she regards her track record with pride, she sees herself... View Details
- September 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
Keywords: Management; Startup; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leadership Skills; Nutrition Database; Nutritionist In Your Pocket; Nutritional Educational Platform; Shazam Of Food; Weight Loss; Iphone; Android; Applications; App Development; Nutrition Labeling; Nutritional Information; Obesity; Epidemic; Applications and Software; Nutrition; Business Startups; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Boston; Massachusetts
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
huge loss of capital. And, in fact, a lot of knowledge was lost in that transition. Many people had to figure out new things, had to learn how to operate under difficult... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- November 2019
- Article
The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market
By: Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani and Carlo Sommavilla
This paper shows that the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then... View Details
Keywords: Broker Networks; Institutional Investors; Asset Prices; Business and Shareholder Relations; Institutional Investing; Information; Knowledge Dissemination; Financial Markets; Asset Pricing
Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla. "The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market." Journal of Financial Economics 134, no. 2 (November 2019): 419–446.
- 2012
- Chapter
Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms
By: Heidi K. Gardner, N. Anand and Tim Morris
How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management... View Details
- 11 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning By Thinking: How Reflection Improves Performance
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Unsplash/Pedro Marroquin View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette