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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies

By: Valeria Giacomin
Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization
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    Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

    Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
    • Research Summary

    The role of the manager in cross-sector interactions

    My second stream of research takes the individual manager as the unit of analysis in examining cross-sector interactions.  Two papers explore processes and mechanisms that allow managers to cross sectoral boundaries more effectively.

    The first paper... View Details
    • October 2009 (Revised December 2010)
    • Case

    GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative

    By: Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch and Christian Welling
    The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context marked by time pressure and frequent change. M-Budget was the first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Leading Change; Product Launch; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Banking Industry; Switzerland
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    • 02 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)

    Keywords: by Ruth Wageman & Teresa M. Amabile
    • 22 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-100.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Hila... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Mar 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Will I Stay or Will I Go? Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

    Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Katherine L. Milkman

      Gerald Zaltman

      *Joined Harvard Faculty: 1991
      Prior Faculty Appointments: Northwestern University, 1968-75;
      University of Pittsburgh, 1975-91

      *Doctoral Degree in Sociology Received from: The John Hopkins University;
      MBA Degree Received from: The University of... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; apparel; automotive; beverage; biotechnology; consumer products; entertainment; financial services; food; health care; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing; sports; telecommunications
      • 31 Dec 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Most Popular Stories of 2012

      The following articles were the most read pieces on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2012. Now two questions for you. What do you think was the most important business issue of the year? Fiscal cliff? China's slowdown? Also... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • 17 Mar 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

      American business history in Spanish, as well as a good understanding of European business history that requires knowledge of multiple languages. "This loss of history has resulted in the spread of influential View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 22 Sep 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: September 22

      ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15325   PublicationsHow Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Publication:The Academy of Management... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 10 May 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

      Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, recently published by Harvard Business Press, aims to give the topic its intellectual due. Edited by Khurana and Nitin Nohria, who will become the new Dean of Harvard Business School on July 1,... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
      • 31 Mar 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

      imitate: The core-competency perspective focused attention on the importance of knowledge creation and building learning processes for competitive advantage. 2 But this approach, too, faced limits as... View Details
      Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
      • 19 Dec 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

      platforms. “How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers” was the most-read story on Working Knowledge in 2016. Other popular topics among our readers included workplace communication, negotiation, white-collar crime,... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

        Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation

        The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation... View Details

        • 2016
        • Book

        Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation

        By: Dietmar Harhoff and Karim R. Lakhani
        The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process, which emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation and Management; Transformation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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        • 02 Jan 2018
        • Research & Ideas

        The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

        Credit: iStockPhoto No surprise: Race and gender were prime topics of interest for Harvard Business School Working Knowledge readers in 2017. Also popular were articles about research that gave us greater understanding about how leaders... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 22 Jul 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

        an "invisible hand" that was largely beyond the control of individual firms. Competitive theory has been advanced at Harvard Business School, shown here under construction. The scope for strategy as a way to control market... View Details
        Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
        • 22 Apr 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: April 22

        provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 04 Jul 2016
        • Research & Ideas

        Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

        Live, on how to design an organizational experiment. They started by making sure the participants understood the practical importance of theory. “Behind every massive experiment there’s a theory,” Bernstein says. (He notes that the... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel