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  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review More Than a Paycheck: How to Create Good Blue-Collar Jobs in the Knowledge Economy By: Campbell, Dennis, John Case, and Bill Fotsch Abstract—Fifty years ago a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
  • April 2025
  • Article

Skill Dependencies Uncover Nested Human Capital

By: Moh Hosseinioun, Frank Neffke, Letian Zhang and Hyejin Youn
Modern economies require increasingly diverse and specialized skills, many of which depend on the acquisition of other skills first. Here we analyse US survey data to reveal a nested structure within skill portfolios, where the direction of dependency is inferred... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Analytics and Data Science
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    James L. Heskett

    James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock Returns

    By: Ki-Soon Choi, Eric So and Charles C.Y. Wang
    We study the use of firms’ book-to-market ratios (B/M) in value investing and its implications for comovements in firms’ stock returns and trading volumes. We show B/M has become increasingly detached from common alternative valuation ratios over time while also... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation Ratios; Book-to-market Ratios; Investment Return; Investment; Decision Making
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

    By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
    When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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    • 30 Apr 2008
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

    Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered Does branding work for business-to-business marketing? Can individuals... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Sports; Publishing; Auto
    • 14 Jan 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

    build successful businesses. The desire to capture the scale of this change is the ambitious goal of Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project, whose new website was profiled in HBS Working Knowledge last year. The... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto
    • 05 Dec 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

    studied at Harvard Business School. Credit:  Bartosz Hadyniak For perspectives on what has been learned so far, HBS Working Knowledge conducted an email interview with four of the key drivers of CEM: Project coordinators Geoffrey Jones,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Dec 2010
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

    Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I identify opportunities in emerging markets? How important are... View Details
    • 02 Jan 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2006

    economy and lower-income consumers. Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence Technology was getting dull earlier this decade, says David Yoffie. But the sudden arrival of digital convergence has turned the tech world upside down.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 13 Jul 2022
    • Book

    Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

    presented in the excerpt below, the authors outline what a greener and fairer economy would look like. Co-edited by Battilana, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • April, 2023
    • Article

    Reducing Information Barriers to Solar Adoption: Experimental Evidence from India

    By: Meera Mahadevan, Robyn C. Meeks and Takashi Yamano
    Off-grid solar technologies hold promise for unelectrified and low-quality electricity settings; however, their adoption remains low. Important barriers to adoption, such as incomplete information remain relatively unexplored in developing countries. In collaboration... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Renewable Energy; Knowledge Sharing; Developing Countries and Economies; India
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    • 15 Dec 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

    to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

    successful product managers, general managers, startup founders, and CEOs of mature technology companies. Blending technical skills and business management knowledge Like all students in the MS/MBA program, Kaelyn and Adam had backgrounds... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 14 Oct 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

    field questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview.Lagace: In The Support Economy, you make the case that managerial capitalism, invented a hundred years ago, desperately needs an overhaul. How... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace

      Dennis A. Yao

      Dennis Yao is the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2004 after having been at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From 1991-1994 he served as... View Details

      Keywords: automotive; defense; federal government; high technology
      • 13 Oct 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

      markets. Sean Silverthorne: When we think of developing economies or countries, instability is often seen as a negative. Should you build a business in a place where the rule of law is suspect? But Hamdi Akın seemed to have thrived in the... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • May 2016
      • Article

      Transformation of Health Care—Perspectives of Opinion Leaders

      By: Joanne Disch, Thomas W. Feeley, Diana J. Mason, Richard L. Schilsky, Ellen L. Stovall and Shelley Fuld Nasso
      "What Health System Transformations Do You Believe Are Necessary for the Future of Health Care?" We need to transform to a true value-based health care delivery system. That means organizing care around medical conditions, not simply around hospitals and doctors. We... View Details
      Keywords: Perspective; Health Disorders; Performance Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Health Industry
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      • 16 Nov 2018
      • News

      PayPal and Square quietly grow small business lending using data as their edge over banks