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2004
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Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Acquisition; Theory

February 1996 (Revised April 2003)
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WPP--Integrating Icons to Leverage Knowledge

Martin Sorrell has used WPP to acquire a large portfolio of marketing service firms including J. Walter Thompson and Ogilvy & Mather. How did he make this minnow-swallows-many-whales trick work, and can he make the whole into something bigger than the parts? View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Marketing; Networks; Diversification

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Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Seeking

By: Juan Alcacer and Wilbur Chung

Keywords: Geographic Location; Knowledge

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About Us What we do Since 1999, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has connected the School’s leading edge research and ideas on business management with practitioners, thought-leaders, and academics. Readers are introduced to the... View Details

June 2011 (Revised May 2012)
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L'Oréal: Global Brand, Local Knowledge

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan Johnson

Worldwide, and in the U.S. marketplace in particular, the French cachet of L'Oréal was one of its most powerful marketing tools. However, with the opening up of emerging markets, L'Oréal had to cater to a diverse customer base: an aging population in the West, ethnic... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Change Management; Sales; Emerging Markets; Segmentation; Innovation and Invention; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; France; United States

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Email the Editor *Name: *Email: (Return address) Comments: Contact HBS Working Knowledge Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Road Boston, MA 02163 Customer Service Editor Newsletter Sign-Up Reprint... View Details

Spring 2019
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Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations

By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson

To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository has the... View Details

Keywords: Teaming; Teams; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Service Delivery; Knowledge Use and Leverage

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About Us Linking Policy Privacy Policy Harvard Business School and HBS Working Knowledge understand that the privacy of its users is important. To that end, we have adopted the following policy with regard to the collection, use, and... View Details

June–July 2013
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Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices

By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Deszo and Minyuan Zhao

The international business (IB) literature has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics on location choices. However, industries with a significant presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Global Strategy

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We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-start-up knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology coworking hubs in the United States. Relying on the exogenous assignment of office space to the hub’s 251 start-ups, we find that proximity... View Details

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February 2019
Teaching Note

Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000

By: Tatiana Sandino and Olivia Hull

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 118-007 and 118-072. View Details

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September 1996
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Technology Integration: Knowledge and Context

By: Marco Iansiti

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Robin Greenwood George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research , Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He... View Details

31 Jul 2014
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Making Private Equity Public Knowledge

©Rick Friedman As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting analysts; the elite. "Goldman Sachs, KKR, Blackstone—they want... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

2005
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Beyond Knowledge Transfer: A Typology of Knowledge Sharing Behavior in Virtual Teams

By: Deborah Soule and Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Knowledge; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Sharing

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July 2024 (Revised October 2024)
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Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM

By: Willy Shih

New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers used at the... View Details