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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
that affect groups of people engaged in collaborative product design affect groups of people engaged in the collaborative production and delivery of goods and services. As with complex technical systems,... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
problems, such as the adequacy of the public health system, disparities in access to health care, availability of emergency child care, universal broadband and Internet access, or educating people in life skills such as resiliency and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; and Marco Piovesan, an associate economics professor at the University of Copenhagen and a former research fellow at HBS. “It suggests that having breaks prior to testing is... View Details
- 31 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
When Good Teams Go Bad
What could better symbolize high-level business performance than an eight-oared crew team rowing in perfect unison, their boat powered by a selfless collaboration of strength, skill, and shared purpose? It's no wonder that advertisers... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
books, and movies has increased sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-132.pdf Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration Authors:Mark... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
rights-based work, where collaboration may matter more than acting alone, an organization's resources would be better used pursuing its mission and developing approximate measures to help it improve, rather than chasing hard proof of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He teamed with Wharton Professor Katherine L. Milkman (DBA 2009) and Wharton doctoral candidate Erika L. Kirgios, who led the research. They conducted six experiments that probed... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
to all industries that are willing to engage in collaborative efforts to upgrade competitiveness (Ketels, 2010). The role of exports in a competitiveness-oriented growth strategy While the competitiveness-oriented approach provides a... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
experienced a status loss under the mandate, she found, regardless of their level of English fluency. "There's this universal experience of status diminution when people compare their native/formally trained language to this new... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
each other that the thought of collaboration is never going to cross your minds. Women will come in willing and able and ready, and you're going to lose,' " she remembers. Brandt, one of 38 women in the Class of 1972, says she was... View Details
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
learning and advice when members are already embedded in existing networks,” Koning and coauthor Sharique Hasan of Duke University argue in Prior ties and the limits of peer effects on startup team performance, published April 11 in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
networks of networks. Currently, he said, universities and labs use it to connect researchers working on collaborative projects. These projects can range from building virtual reality models of the ear—a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
their fan groups stand to gain valuable insights and build loyalty at a much lower cost, according to Harvard Business School’s Frank Nagle, an assistant professor of strategy, and Sonali K. Shah, associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site's several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future—and on a dramatically new, emerging... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Turmeric is prepared into medicine. Doucefleur In the early 1990s, an Indian plastic surgeon at the University of Mississippi, S. K. Das, was about to amputate the leg of a patient because of a wound that wouldn’t heal. Colleague Hari P.... View Details
- 30 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Speakers: Jay O. Light, Dean of HBSDrew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
smaller) communities and collaborations of inventors. Fleming and his colleagues found, for example, that at the end of the last decade, half of the patented inventors in Silicon Valley could trace an indirect View Details
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
work and save, and the amount of direct government consumption. But each of these policies can be measured with no recourse to ill-defined terms, such as 'taxes,' 'transfer payments,' and 'deficits.'" Developed by Kotlikoff (in View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9781846142734,00.html?strSrchSql=Civilization%3A+The+West+and+the+Rest/Civilization_Niall_Ferguson Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell, eds.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell