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- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
they can answer it in Slack.” You Might Also Like: In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go? Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity? Does Hybrid Work... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2012
- Book
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those... View Details
Keywords: Change; Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Innovation and Invention; Management; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Research; Strategy; Complexity; Value
Edmondson, Amy C. Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy. Jossey-Bass, 2012.
- 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
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
Business School) How to Make Furloughs More Humane (Harvard Business Review) Coaching Your Team Through Uncertain Times (Harvard Business Review) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge If risk of... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
for example, was a banner year for bad news, with thirty late-stage clinical failures of biotech drugs, he said. The online magazine Signals, which is published by Recombinant Capital, a consulting firm that View Details
- 15 Apr 2024
- Book
Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters
what will work. Published with permission by Springer. Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- March 2021
- Article
Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Past research has focused on understanding the characteristics of work that are fully virtual or fully collocated. The present study seeks to expand our understanding of team work by studying knowledge workers' experiences as they were suddenly forced to transition to... View Details
Keywords: Team Work; Activities; Virtual Work; Digital Technologies; Groups and Teams; Health Pandemics; Internet and the Web; Adaptation
Whillans, Ashley V., Leslie Perlow, and Aurora Turek. "Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Information and Organization 31, no. 1 (March 2021).
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) reveals that you're much less likely to stereotype by gender if you apply an... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Twin brothers Kenny and Sean Salas (both MBA 2015) grew up with firsthand knowledge of what it takes to be an... View Details
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
concept of "Enterprise 2.0"—a term coined by McAfee on the general idea of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used in business—popped up on Wikipedia, McAfee beamed. "I was bizarrely proud when my work rose to... View Details
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Issa Baluch and the African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
A veteran of the freight forwarding industry, Issa Baluch wanted to transform the education space in Africa by introducing hands-on practical teaching in agriculture and agribusiness. In the summer of 2015 his vision of a practical learning institute for African... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Institutions For Collaboration; Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Farming; International Development; Stakeholder Engagement; Youth; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Environment; Social Impact Investment; Agribusiness; Education; Training; Leadership; Knowledge; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Finance; Africa
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Renee Vuillaume. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Issa Baluch and the African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI)." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-056, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
Luca says. In the study of small-business employees by Luca and his colleagues, 29 percent of Alignable members reported that moving to remote work increased their productivity. Among NABE members, that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
STRENGTH TO STRENGTH: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks, published on February 15th 2022 by Portfolio, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
large and small. She bolstered her own technical knowledge of how to probe more deeply into the causes of failure in hospitals by attending the Executive Sessions on Medical Errors and Patient Safety at... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 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
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
As a girl growing up in Riverdale, New York, Ivy Ross (PMD 68, 1994) was surrounded by modern design — and disliked it. The home she lived in and the furniture she sat on reflected the avant-garde sensibilities of her father, an... View Details
- 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
Akinola, Modupe, and David A. Thomas. "Defining the Attributes and Processes that Enhance the Effectiveness of Workforce Diversity Initiatives in Knowledge Intensive Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-019, September 2006. (Revised August 2008.)
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
beyond.” You Might Also Like: Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand