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01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

19 Jan 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

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: How do I lead in a crisis? What roles does... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

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 Are global brands effective? How should I... View Details

05 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

than others. Most wanna-dots don't rise to the challenge with the same resolve. Lacking the commitment or knowledge of how to change, the laggards go through different phases en route to the Web. First, they are in deep denial about the... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

03 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

2009). He has taught a variety of MBA courses, including the second-year electives Business at the Base of the Pyramid and Customers, Commerce and Society: Business Value and the Private Creation of Social Value. Rangan agreed to take part in an e-mail Q&A with HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

stop for a drink, eager to reward business initiative. What's missing in Europe are the incentives and the network.— Enrico Bastianelli,ProSkelia Pharmaceuticals Expanding on that theme, Ted Llana, vice president of Global Commercial Strategy for Biogen Idec, recalled... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

these firms.” You Might Also Like: Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone' What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance? Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

06 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. A recent Economist magazine includes a... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

09 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 9

right questions—and work through the answers in ways that are right for you. By asking these questions, you can craft new strategies for staying on top of your game. Read the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

a large majority of those who contribute to the open source community do so in order to learn and share new knowledge and skills, over half cite direct payment for their work or the chance to improve their... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

we can design and manage our most imminent environments—our neighborhoods, may they be of physical, social, or intellectual nature—to best support knowledge creation, diffusion, and performance outcomes. About the author Sean Silverthorne... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

engaging in the culture and learning to be vulnerable." Accepting one's vulnerabilities is a primary objective of ALD, which requires participants to work together in six-person groups. "It's more than a View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Apr 2019
HBS Case

How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold

focus too much on formal contracts in order to transfer knowledge or other resources to their company, rather than less formal arrangements, the researchers learned. “With early stage tech companies, there is a huge emphasis on View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

intense research with individual employees, try to make them partners in the research," she said. (HBS professor Nava Ashraf discussed this idea of co-producing knowledge in the Working View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

brand over another based on their patients' requests? A recent study, Physicians Report on Patient Encounters Involving Direct to Consumer Advertising, focused on one aspect of pharma DCTA: What do physicians think about all of this? What follows is an HBS View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

promise of teams? What do you think? To Read More Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, Crown Publishers, 2012. Amy Edmondson, Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

them, first, requires in-depth knowledge of a given work setting. Quantifying them, next, requires multiple managers and employees answering questions that could get them fired if the company decided to... View Details