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  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Taking Time to Make Time

hours. How does that hurt productivity? The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained model of measuring work, but it comes from a time that predated our View Details
Keywords: Time management
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

to the emerging literature on open and distributed innovation by demonstrating the value of openness, at least narrowly defined by disclosing problems, in removing barriers to entry to non-obvious individuals. We also contribute to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

manufacturing to knowledge-based economic growth. He notes that Kendall Square, the Seaport District, and the South End of Boston were transformed when businesses took hold after decades of disinvestment. “In the same way,” he stresses,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

are many companies with which to partner. Being part of a cluster facilitates change and speeds innovation—both fundamental to modern, knowledge-based competition. Q: Over the next ten or twenty years, what new clusters do you think will... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Robert Goodwin

Executives Without Borders is about. We make sustainable, knowledge-based investments that help to stabilize communities and, over time, make the world a better place. How do you choose which NGOs to help? We get involved with projects... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

observer of “where human capital is invested and where it isn’t.” He grew up in New Bedford, one of a number of Massachusetts “gateway cities” left behind in the shift from manufacturing to knowledge-based economic growth. He notes that... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

in dramatically new ways." McKenney's additional research interests, focusing on managing the implementation and growth of intelligent terminal communications systems, knowledge-based systems, and the design and management of private... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
  • 06 Jan 2003
  • What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

ineffective enforcement of intellectual property laws that may stifle China's transition from a manufacturing to a higher-value-added knowledge-based economy. Greg Durst cites both "Western gullibility" in overestimating the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

productivity levels. But money is less meaningful as a motivator in the complex creative jobs that make up most work in our modern knowledge-based society. “With most of today’s employees, you’re trying to help instill intrinsic... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

are on average exhibiting good corporate governance, especially in light of the markedly different business strategies they typically undertake. Moreover, unlike many past conceptions of business groups from financial economics, sociology, and strategy, we find... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

"stub"—essentially a brief starting point for others to build on the concept. McAfee's article detailed how so-called Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, and group messaging, employed in a business setting, could encourage more spontaneous, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

knowledge-based "recombinative capabilities" view of business groups—that such groups have done the most to invest in R&D and other skills necessary to combine inputs in ways that lead to greater added value. Further, our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

and revisable. Next Right Steps Leaders rely on evolving commitments for three practical reasons. First, they can. Knowledge-based organizations are more flexible than traditional manufacturing firms with dedicated factories, and firms... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

semiconductors and disk drives in the 1990s. But for a city-state without natural resources, the new millennium belongs to a knowledge-based economy, and the Biopolis, which opened in 2003, is at the center of that. "In late 1989, I... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

billable hours. How does that hurt productivity? A: The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained model of measuring work, but it comes from a time that predated... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

some policy implications for regulators designing third-party monitoring regimes. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51917 The Search for Peer Firms: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom? By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

proprietary processes, and methodologies. Both types of expertise are clearly valuable. While general experts add greatly to team outcomes—often because so much of knowledge-based work is "learned by doing"—contributions from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

Authors:Heidi K. Gardner, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats Abstract In knowledge-based environments, teams must develop a systematic approach to integrating knowledge resources throughout the course of projects in order to perform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

exhibiting good corporate governance, especially in light of the markedly different business strategies they typically undertake. Moreover, unlike many past conceptions of business groups from financial economics, sociology, and strategy, we find evidence for a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace