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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a... View Details
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
productively engage customers in the creation of value. The alignment of our interests and our complementary experiences in financial services—Michelle’s as a practitioner and mine as a researcher—make us a great team. Introduction... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
affected by XML technology. Ballmer concluded by noting that any business whose product can be delivered electronically (e.g., publishing, music) will do well on the Internet. But all CEOs, he said, should ask themselves, "What is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
productively at the intersection of business, science, and technology. His second-year elective, Commercializing Science and High Technology, is designed to attract business, science, engineering, law, and medical students from across the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations
business: incorporating new perspectives encourages innovation and can also increase productivity and safety. In a psychologically safe workplace, when mistakes are made and learned from, the company can move forward instead of repeating... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
above and beyond first-nature driven geographic concentration due to market size, comparative advantage, and trade costs. Second-nature forces including knowledge spillovers, capital-market externalities, and vertical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and one-on-one meetings with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
one in which your product had to operate 100 million miles from Earth and perform under a range of conditions which were hard to predict in advance), it was impossible to know up front exactly what form a faster, better, cheaper approach... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
presidential election, won by Democrat Barack Obama, was 2 percent higher than patent activity by Republican inventors. But their relative patent productivity dropped by 3.8 percent around the 2016 election won by Donald J. Trump, a... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 28 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
times—get started on the right foot. “It really is possible to bottle up life experience and tacit knowledge and deconstruct it to accelerate the learning curve,” he says. Ng says that unlocking the best career opportunities requires job... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
connections and professional networks remain just as important as they were in the past. This places U.S.-trained Chinese, with business connections and local knowledge on both sides of the Pacific, in a great position to create... View Details
- Profile
Amanda Pratt
engineering, Amanda wanted to look beyond circuits. "I just couldn't see myself doing the same thing ten years out." Exploration of possibilities, integration of knowledge Amanda saw the "MBA as an opportunity to review... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
to meet with BFFS faculty to promote the productive exchange of ideas. “We began by mobilizing Harvard research around the realities of how markets, individuals, and institutions behave ,” says Greenwood. “Ultimately though, we want the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Silent Killers: Overcoming Barriers to Organizational Learning
pharmaceutical, medical product, hotel, banking, and building product industries, the authors examined the findings of twelve profiles conducted in four companies. In those organizations, the same six issues arose time after time: unclear... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
e-mail interview, HBS Working Knowledge talked with team member Raj De Datta to hear more about the plan and next steps for Gyaana.Tishler: What inspired you to develop Gyaana? De Datta: The genesis of Gyaana came from two observations:... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Also, people are more attuned to the knowledge that geopolitical strife is influenced by environmental issues, such as how American dependence on Persian Gulf oil colors its behavior in that volatile region. It is only in recent years... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
success of the 10-year-old D'O and poses questions about Oldani's plans for growth. Both the chef and the professor met with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to talk about the secrets to Oldani's success and his potential plans... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
been winning the competition repeatedly. As Working Knowledge reader John Sandvik put it: “A scale tipped to either side is not ideal the balance already is far in favor of the largest businesses, and some of the changes they have managed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett