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25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

Working Papers Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure-through patent publication-on the market for ideas. We do so View Details

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

Solution:Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, written with co-author Michael E. Raynor, looks at the keys to creating new-growth companies that can sustain their competitive advantages. It is scheduled to be released in the fall by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

practice and co-leads the Managing the Future of Work initiative. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Coalitions and climate change My wish is that 2022 will be dominated by glorious visions of a green and blue economy... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Podcast with: Richard TedlowInterviewer: James AisnerRunning Time: 29 min., 09 sec.Transcript My name is Jim Aisner and I am Director of Media Relations at Harvard Business School. This is the first in a series of podcasts for the school's View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

open bar happy hours with David Fairhurst, a personal friend he had promoted to oversee human resources, and the two men developed reputations for “flirting with female employees.” HR allegedly didn’t intervene despite knowledge of the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

Silicon Valley is the poster child for capitalism, the synergistic geography where smart private money supports cool ideas, creates jobs, boosts national productivity, and provides a handsome return for investors. Less well understood about the area's development was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

an article that explores various uses of the corporate assessment tool that they developed for their research. They recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the origins of the project, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one finding from View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

is why. Why is this country so driven by the attainment of wealth? If you go to other countries, there are people who work very hard, who have a nice standard of living, but they're not so focused on one... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

research going on at Harvard Business School. Held each May on the HBS campus, the event provides the opportunity for a few faculty to share recent work with an audience of doctoral students, HBS staff members, and other professors. This... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

knowledge and intelligence about the business they run. "You can see how the left side and the right side of an organization come together to produce something that matters, and that is also, by the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

Strategy, published by Oxford University Press. Contributors to the book include Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen, Walter Kuemmerle, and Thomas R. Eisenmann, as well as nine other scholars. Bower and Gilbert recently sat... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

Red shoes can help you stand out at the office. Credit: iStock Welcome to January, dear readers! We at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge want nothing but the best for you in the new year. And for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

October 2013
Article

Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Dina Wang and Derek C. M. van Bever

Consulting fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at traditional... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Consulting Industry

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19 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

counterparts. Q: An interesting fact in your work is that even after the bubble burst, investors continued to pour money into funds managed by inexperienced managers despite their poor track records. A: Yes,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

"High, upstream knowledge should not be owned by one company," notes Gary Pisano. "You don't want patents to preempt innovation, you want them to stimulate innovation, and the way to stimulate... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration in the Presence of Outliers

1. Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). How can humans and algorithms work together to... View Details

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

Kaurman and Derek C.M. van Bever, also senior lecturers with prior leadership experience in the private sector. Huber recently sat down with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to discuss how an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

front. "The price of a piece of information is vanishingly small, so we have to play tricks to make sure it doesn't disappear to zero," said Upton. "That doesn't work unless I make some artificial distinction between... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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