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  • 07 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

Empire to another. So in other words, the individual different historical actors were the ones who transferred the knowledge of violence. It’s about logics, and ideas, and bureaucracies, but it’s ultimately... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

Consulting Group, and McKinsey emphasize a personalization strategy. They focus on dialogue between individuals, not knowledge objects in a database. Knowledge that has not been codified — and probably... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting
  • Research Summary

Learning Organizations

David A. Garvin is studying how companies pursue improvement and change through efforts to stimulate organizational learning. He has found the following activities to be common in learning organizations: intelligence gathering; experimentation; learning from... View Details

  • 01 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

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

highlighted a few of the ways they were able to apply their transferable skills and knowledge to add value at their internship employers. An engineer’s skillset Adam: BEV is a pretty technical place, which... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • March 2018
  • Article

Global Business over Time

By: Geoffrey Jones
This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, emerging out of industrialized Western economies, created and co-created markets and ecosystems... View Details
Keywords: Global; Multinational; Business History; Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Economic Systems
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are... View Details
Keywords: Asset Pricing; Investment Portfolio; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry
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  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

and technical assistance in the same period. We interpret this as supportive of the interpretation that technology transfers from the U.S. to Western European countries and Japan were an important factor in driving growth in these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage
  • 20 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

lot of people. And what's also important to note is that the problem solving being done is not "We'll spend five years coming up with a solution." Most people take knowledge and information from their back pockets and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-127.pdf Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance Author:Heidi K. Gardner Abstract Why do some teams fail to use their members' View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

require construction of broader coalitions of policymakers, place more constraints on executive decision making, and have more competitive selection processes. As a result, there are stronger political motivations for Vietnamese leaders to provide equalizing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

taxonomy that assembles the field's knowledge about these decision-making bounds and organizes efforts toward deepening this knowledge and developing strategies for improvement. Specifically, we group five... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

information provision strategies to encourage knowledge transfer within the organization. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-085.pdf Board of Directors' Responsiveness to Shareholders:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2011
  • Article

Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor

By: Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Policy; Information; Knowledge Acquisition; Game Theory; Prejudice and Bias; Poverty; Welfare
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  • 2022
  • Article

Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Administration, Emeritus The secret sauce of Harvard Business School is shared responsibility for learning. That’s fundamentally different from the traditional model of teaching — the learned expert transferring View Details
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

mutually agreed-upon transfers with compensation and are located within the task network. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Apr 2024
  • HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

of rule changes that allowed players to make money from sponsorships and transfer to other schools more easily. The changes threw college football into flux and favored programs that could draw big media attention. Sanders used the rule... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

like knowledge and information can often be transferred more efficiently and effectively within a firm than between independent firms. There are several reasons for this, including the fact that much View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail