Knowledge Flows - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

psychotherapist, and career development counselor for over 25 years, is also a researcher on career decision making generally and the relationship between personality structure and work satisfaction in particular. He met recently with HBS Working View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

book and Grove in this interview. Next week, HBS Working Knowledge will offer a video podcast with Tedlow, as well as a book excerpt. Sean Silverthorne: Why is your book subtitled "The Life and Times of an American"? Richard S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

and complements perfectly the physical business we have built so far.” Another example is MyoMaster, a company that specializes in recovery products and knowledge for athletes. Founded by couple Joe Gray and Lottie Whyte, MyoMaster... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

Sometimes executive education has little to do with what happens in a classroom. Mentoring and coaching are the time-tested ways for wisdom and knowledge to be passed through an organization. Harvard Business School professor Dorothy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

venues of care and caregivers, and tools and systems that help and allow patients to be more effectively involved in their own care. To date, our prevailing model of innovation has been that knowledge flows... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now the business world has changed, say the authors of Rethinking... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

support to network management and disaster recovery. Start With Simple Steps SupplierInsight's Bart Blackburn warned that the reams of information flowing from the Internet did not, in fact, make the manager's job less difficult or the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi Abdelal. Different countries and... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

reporting on how it is allocating its residual cash flow among its stockholders and its other stakeholders." Others were less enthusiastic about the notion. "A compliance officer will not be a panacea," said Nigel.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections reduce employment flows and firm entry rates.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65 Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

one’s own knowledge attenuated reliance on algorithms. These tests are important because participants can improve their accuracy by relying more on algorithms (Experiment 4). Experiments 5 and 6 tested a mechanism for reliance:... View Details

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive knowledge View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

"In India, we are creating two different societies with a large disparity in income as well as access to knowledge and information." In large part, the comments seemed to reflect reactions to both differences in the fluidity of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

work—rather than a sporadic trip to the office could prove invaluable in designing flows in and out of a city’s center. Another example: Designers developing new infrastructure for electric vehicles might benefit from knowing driving... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

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, but inflows slow down considerably. This relates to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

sharing accurate information,” says Jordan. You Might Also Like: Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

work on knowledge diffusion demonstrates that knowledge flows along these collaborative relationships, even years after they were formed," says Fleming. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

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