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24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

functional knowledge. But they fall down on "know how"—teaching students how to think beyond information silos and to be more self-aware as leaders. It's the "know how" that's most valued in the business world, Datar... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

patient, few actually engage them in meaningful ways to help with prevention and wellness, shared decision making, provider choice, expectation setting ,and compliance. The problem is that practical skills such as cost accounting and organizational behavior are taught... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

flows across these links—that that's the lifeblood of research and creativity. At the other extreme, we found two CEO managers in Silicon Valley who were vehemently opposed to these ideas and complained about how they hired their scientists and trained them for a year... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

that regulators shared knowledge among themselves as well as with the academics. “We tend to get siloed in our thinking,” says OSHA senior policy advisor Debbie Berkowitz. “We don’t really reach out to other agencies enough to see how... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

there’s no pressing need for introductions; since these groups are usually siloed revenue producers. Competition with other departments, the need for subject-matter expertise—these are the circumstances that typically create leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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