by HBS Working Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

2012
Book

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy

Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting innovation are all part of the landscape of learning challenges today's companies face. I show that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those... View Details

Keywords: Change; Interpersonal Communication; Learning; Values and Beliefs; Innovation and Invention; Management; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Research; Strategy; Complexity; Value

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01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

break up the airline and lay off thousands of employees if a consensual agreement could not be reached. Management made the threat real by developing an actual restructuring plan, containing detailed financial projections and valuations.... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

17 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Why Global Brands Work

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.Ford has finally woken up to... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto

Research Summary

Overview

Professor Myers studies the ways people learn from their own—and others’—experiences at work, with a particular emphasis on learning in health care organizations and emergency medical contexts. Though his interest is in individual-level learning, he focuses in... View Details

Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning Organizations; Learning By Doing; Health Care Industry; Innovation; Identity Construction; Medical Error; Knowledge Development; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Work; Learning; Leadership Development; Knowledge Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; United States; Singapore; Asia

13 Nov 2013
News

Gender Contamination: Why Men Prefer Products Untouched by Women

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

practice and co-leads the Managing the Future of Work initiative. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Coalitions and climate change My wish is that 2022 will be dominated by glorious visions of a green and blue economy... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

07 Jan 2013
News

Articles by Professors Teresa Amabile and Cynthia Montgomery named top ten by McKinsey Quarterly

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

Instagram and look for the “Office Hours” story series. You can also follow HBS Working Knowledge on Twitter (@HBSWK) and Facebook. About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

the complexities of case writing throughout the region. Conversations also focused on work that the new Center can foster between, and among, Latin American academics and HBS faculty. (The conference in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Apr 2024
Book

Struggling With a Big Management Decision? Start by Asking What Really Matters

what will work. Published with permission by Springer. Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer finance. Jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and Harvard Law School... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) reveals that you're much less likely to stereotype by gender if you apply an... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

10 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

to do with the scandal,” adds HBS colleague Boris Groysberg, the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. “It’s almost as if someone is rewriting your CV 10 years after you leave a company.” Groysberg and Serafeim... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

be handled in a way that allows for the emotional cauldron that people experience when they are the ones who actually carry out these tasks. According to research by Joshua D. Margolis of HBS and Andrew... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2014
News

Dressing by Number

recommended clothing based on the data they provide; clients purchase only the items they love. The more information a customer gives Stitch Fix—the initial “style profile,” shared Pinterest boards, feedback on what works and what doesn’t... View Details

Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; cosmetics; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2013
News

Brick by Brick

back in-house for quality control. Emphasizing simplicity, clarifying the core of its business, and engaging the larger community helped save the LEGO Group. Although Kundstorp was not a Kristiansen by birth, his management style and... View Details

Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

are external hires, and roughly two-thirds are “complete outsiders,” finds a recent working paper by Paul Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

significant challenges to overcome? A: It was refreshing and encouraging to experience the strong positive response to the SEI from HBS students, alums, faculty, and staff. By providing support,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

administration in the HBS Strategy Unit. “It’s very taxing, to be honest.” Shifting to remote work at the start of the pandemic stripped away whatever was left of the elusive 9-to-5 business day and replaced... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

2015
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Issa Baluch and the African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Renee Vuillaume

A veteran of the freight forwarding industry, Issa Baluch wanted to transform the education space in Africa by introducing hands-on practical teaching in agriculture and agribusiness. In the summer of 2015 his vision of a practical learning institute for African... View Details