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- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
that eight of the 10 most-read HBS Working Knowledge stories of the year were COVID-focused. Readers sought insights from HBS faculty about everything from managing large-scale... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Digital Transformation Of Health Care
making it possible for health care officials to better track and curtail the spread of illnesses. And telemedicine is helping to transform the quality, accessibility, and affordability of health care. Over... View Details
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A Theory of the Firm's Knowledge-Creation Dynamics
By: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
environment, workplace safety, and community involvement, most firms do not provide this information. Second, it is not economically efficient for shareholders with a small stake in a number of companies to ferret out sufficient... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
Social enterprise groups are traditionally organized along one of two lines: The affiliation model favors decentralized control, while the branch model concentrates control at a central headquarters. Most social enterprise groups choose... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- May 2020
- Article
Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores
By: Weijia (Daisy) Dai and Michael Luca
Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by evaluating and helping to redesign the posting of restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp.com. We implement a two-stage intervention that separately identifies... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Consumer Behavior; Knowledge Dissemination; Food and Beverage Industry
Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca. "Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 12, no. 2 (May 2020): 41–59.
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
candidate for a World Bank Scholarship to attend business school at Harvard. "That is not an easy opportunity to refuse," Hoa notes. With her background in communist theory and difficulty with English, Hoa found her first year at HBS a struggle. "I had no practical... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 14 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Our Top 5 Blog Posts of 2020
evolve, and change the face of entrepreneurship and investing over the next two years and beyond. 4. Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS-MBA The MS/MBA curriculum builds upon students’ existing... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
identifying future scandals, he says—but in preventing them before they occur. Related reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com Feedback or ideas to... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
the size of government and amount of state services. Paula Rettl spoke to Working Knowledge about her research examining these trends in Italy, Brazil and around the world. A... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- April 2017
- Case
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Telework; Collaborating With Unions; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Trademarks; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; District of Columbia
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Tarun Khanna, and Sarah Mehta. "The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO." Harvard Business School Case 617-027, April 2017.
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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
Health Services clinicians may have special knowledge of the University context to which students will be returning. In all such cases, the decision whether to allow a student to return is made by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
point of view, it will create a new paradigm,” said Gupta. Radio frequency ID tags, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and online gaming were among the other topics covered. The conference, which drew over 500 attendees, was organized... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
organizations—don't use their access to knowledge and don't recognize how closely tied we are to each other and how much the future of life on this planet depends on making wise, sustainable decisions, then... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Book
Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues
While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
sharing accurate information,” says Jordan. You Might Also Like: Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
Today the United States is considered the world leader in higher education. Yet the country could risk losing that top spot, particularly with China opening some of the most innovative educational centers across the globe in recent years,... View Details
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Hidden Workers, Part-Time Potential - Managing the Future of Work
large sub-set of hidden workers: part-time workers, who indicated in our survey that if their circumstances were different, they would prefer to work more hours. Part-time workers are heterogeneous, with a variety View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
sharing of resources and knowledge across product divisions within the region. Ultimately, however, he aimed to help develop an Asia Pacific strategy for the company. So although the new Asian regional... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
The US government set out to support consumers and jolt the economy when it issued federal stimulus checks during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. But actually, that money helped propel questionable investments in “meme stocks,”... View Details