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- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
useful in areas where content production is expensive. And the most expensive content production is 3D animated graphics.” Today, the metaverse is still a dream. But so was Las Vegas at one point—and it came... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
extensions, signals). The resulting organizational communication patterns can lead to highly productive and highly collaborative environments by making both the practices of knowledge work and its outputs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
their products directly to buyers) or as a reseller (purchasing products from suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a decision between whether control rights over a non-contractible... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
The competitiveness of many multinational companies depends on their ability to transfer intellectual property and other intangible assets to their worldwide production processes. These sources of competitive advantage can be anything... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
matter if they’re fired, or they quit. Even for low-wage workers, the cost is between 25 percent and 35 percent of annual compensation. That’s a good proxy for how much it’s going to cost to replace that worker. Second, people who have some tenure with the employer... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
England Journal of Medicine 356, no. 8 (February 22, 2007): 765-768 No abstract available. Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:A. C. Edmondson and I. Nembhard Periodical:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
little attention, and most articles change only mildly from their initial slant. Our study provides the first empirical evidence on the limit of Linus' Law. While many organizations believe that they could improve their knowledge View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Working PapersOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination (revised) Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Phenomenological assumptions—assumptions about the fundamental qualities of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp10-070 When the Name Is the Game Authors:Marco Bertini, John Gourville, and Elie Ofek Publication:Business Strategy Review 22, no. 3 (2011) Abstract In Romeo and Juliet, the fair maiden asks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Repetition of interaction may improve learning, since experience working together aids in the identification, transfer, and application of knowledge among members within a group. Additionally, experience need not be constrained to one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
cable franchises, media company managers could leverage their knowledge of local communities and their political processes. However, some companies avoided franchising: their executives worried that the need to influence city officials... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
healthy workers, benefit their reputations, and engender greater consumer and employee loyalty. Healthy communities also have more money to spend on non health care products and services than unhealthy ones. Underappreciated benefits... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
respondents. Joseph Butler suggests that "It is the responsibility of corporations and governments alike to share knowledge and to work to educate developing nations ... about consumption, pollution, and efficiency." Mark Cox... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto
Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto fielded questions about their article in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Garvin and Roberto discuss the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
psychological safety, and embracing failure and conflict. Individuals who learn to team well acquire knowledge, skills, and networks. Organizations learn to solve complex, cross-disciplinary problems, build stronger and more unified cultures, deliver a wide variety of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other health care professionals. Today, pharmaceutical companies are spending several... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
the day to day urgency of running the business. We have enough knowledge to understand the big market forces, see patterns from other businesses, and can help drive an engaged dialogue. For the engineering-centric founders, you can think... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
Emily Bell, director of Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. Panelist Nicco Mele, director of the Shorenstein Center, noted that all those things we call ads on Facebook are really a wide variety of content: links, posts, images. Using Facebook’s deep View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
seeing real innovation in business, not in products but in what business does." Economic Facts Of Life There are three key characteristics of information technology markets—three economic facts of life, said Upton, that can help show... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss