Knowledge Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

place an undue burden on workers who don't have the interest, time, or expertise to manage their finances. A pioneer in translating finance and mathematics into practical, Wall Street-ready models, Merton was awarded the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

What is consumer empowerment and what does it mean for you as an executive? HBS professor Luc Wathieu outlined his views in the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

Unfortunately, though, experts frequently make lousy teachers. Experts are sometimes so steeped in expertise that they don't remember what it was like to be a newbie—in terms of both how much they knew and how they felt back then. The memory gap leads to an empathy... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

career advice and placement for our students. Our core Real Property survey course is in the fall of the second year. We also have two new winter courses on Emerging Real Estate Markets and Design, Development and Construction. In addition, we have View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

working together,” the article says. We talked to the researchers about how organizations can help employees cope with this difficult period—including everything from guaranteeing paid sick leave and gathering staff for virtual happy... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Mar 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

Business School, researchers tackle these issues through its Gender Initiative, which "supports research, education, and knowledge dissemination to accelerate the advancement of women leaders and promote gender equity in business and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Should I keep control of my company? How do... View Details

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

changes simultaneously. The globalization of markets and competition, the rapid maturation of the information age, the expansion of the service-based economy, the impact of deregulation and privatization, the explosion of the knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

effects" (Alex Evans). "It really doesn't matter whether the world is flat or not. Most value is added by the exploiters, not the creators, and that works in both (flat and non-flat) environments" (Gerald Nanninga). These... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

managements. Venture and buyout investors work closely with the managers of the companies in which they invest. Syndication frequently results in representatives of two or more venture funds serving on boards. Frequently, these... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

Summing Up One of the defining issues in the 1992 U.S. presidential election, NAFTA, has fallen off the radar in the current campaign. This suggests either that many in the U.S. have lost interest in it or, more likely, the subset who visit the HBS View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

approach appears to drive policy formulation behind closed doors in Washington. Once we grasped the global security trends we felt obligated to describe the threats as we saw them and to devise effective American responses. This book is the result of that work. Q: What... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

life sciences. The initiative was started in 1997 at the behest of Dean Kim Clark. We asked professor Gary P. Pisano, who heads up the initiative, to give HBS Working Knowledge a peek into the View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

24 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Jan 2011
Op-Ed

Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress

million to $5 million, with most of that money coming from grants from institutions like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen.” The NIH allocates money to researchers whose proposals are reviewed by a panel of... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical

14 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 14

Working PapersIndustry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms Authors:Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde Abstract We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P)... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

doesn’t work. You Might Also Like: Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't Feedback or ideas to share?... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Applegate teaches "innovation is not an option." We've identified articles and working papers covering a wide range of thinking about innovation management to answer some specific questions you may have about tapping the creativity buried... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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