by HBS Working Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

are external hires, and roughly two-thirds are “complete outsiders,” finds a recent working paper by Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

no one passes up the opportunity; 91 percent of those accepted started class this fall, a yield unmatched by any rival. HBS MBAs are in high demand in the job market. So where's the rub? “Conventional MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

2006
Working Paper

Defining the Attributes and Processes that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms

By: Modupe Akinola and David A. Thomas

Workforce diversity continues to be a key focus for organizations, driven by globalization of the U.S. economy and the desire for organizations to more accurately reflect the demographic diversity of the US population. Yet, most research on diversity in organizations... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Globalization; Employees; Retention; Knowledge Sharing; Research; United States

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17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

have tried to make use of knowledge about the stocks a given fund holds. What is unique in our work is that in rating each fund, we look at the overlap between that fund's holdings and the holdings of every... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

09 Apr 2024
Book

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

Social Circle Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image created with elements generated by Midjourney, an artificial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

transforming how work is done and how people are paid for it. This heightened tension between moral and material goals may be nowhere as intense as it is in journalism, a field with strong ethical convictions at its core, but whose... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

2009
Chapter

Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff and Lucy H. MacPhail

We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; Identity; Cooperation

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14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

the ground there, and became interested in a start-up called New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) through the work that our student teams have done every January since the storm as part of the HBS New Orleans... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

09 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture

Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/Oscar... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

27 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

strategies to give it headwinds and tailwinds,” she says. “That’s when you’re unstoppable.” About the Author Dina Gerdeman is senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. HBS Digital Media... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Direct reports: The new employee should start meeting with their direct reports via videoconferencing during... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

more than 30,000 emails sent among colleagues experimenting with various work arrangements during the COVID pandemic in 2020. He teamed with Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

political leaders, educational institutions, and local alumni. In Europe, a group of executives and professionals, all HBS alumni, form the European Leadership Council (ELC), which provides advice on the View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

Lawrence noted years ago, is "the vehicle by which a chunk of reality is brought into the classroom to be worked over by the class and the instructor." Most cases... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

15 Nov 2022
Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

own life as well. Our “ordinary complicity” might be continuing to work for a company we believe is destroying the environment or maybe ignoring ongoing sexual harassment perpetrated by a colleague. “Rather... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

faculty, whose scholarship and teaching skills attract hundreds of Harvard MBA students to their classrooms each year. Among the latest books by HBS historians are publications View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Sloan Foundation Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution, and the John E. Rovensky Fellowship Fund. He was interviewed by Laura Linard, the director of HBS Historical Collections.Linard: Can you... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

18 Apr 2005
Lessons from the Classroom

NFL Players Touch Down at HBS

players encouraged to give their opinions. "In an NFL setting, it doesn't work that way. Coach Belichick doesn't ask for my opinion." In one class session when New York Giants defensive back Jack Brewer challenged the numbers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

18 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

sociodemographic characteristics. HBS Working Knowledge spoke with Israeli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration, and Ascarza, the Jakurski Family... View Details