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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship

By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a necessary but insufficient step to generating multidisciplinary knowledge. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
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  • 15 Jul 2012
  • News

Productivity Trick: Hide!

  • 29 Nov 2010
  • HBS Case

United Breaks Guitars

moment can fade fairly quickly. Even so, an organization needs to be aware of how best to present itself in this new environment and respond to potential parodies of its brand. "It's a transparent world," he says. "This is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Drivers of Competitiveness Drivers of Competitiveness Achieving real and sustainable competitive advantage requires a clear understanding of what “competitiveness” means and how to analyze it effectively. Such clarity is the key to creating economic View Details

    Rowan Clarke

    Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School in the Strategy Unit. He researches entrepreneurship and technology/AI for economic development and social impact. His work assists small business entrepreneurs, and high-growth technology... View Details

    Keywords: energy; financial services; green technology; retail financial services; microfinance; management consulting; high technology
    • 24 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It

    employees’ passion.” This may include learning what employees themselves are more and less passionate about, and to create a psychologically safe environment where potential difficulties are welcomed conversation topics. Design for... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Jul 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

    In this uncertain economic climate, downsizing and layoffs are a sadly frequent occurrence. Although bad news is always painful to deliver and to hear, the process of conducting "necessary evils"—such as layoffs or firings—can be managed in a way that is... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI

    By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua L. Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
    Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability—whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Policy
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    • October 2021
    • Article

    Can Self-Regulation Save Digital Platforms?

    By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
    This article explores some of the critical challenges facing self-regulation and the regulatory environment for digital platforms. We examine several historical examples of firms and industries that attempted self-regulation before the Internet. All dealt with similar... View Details
    Keywords: Self-regulation; Government Regulation; Digital Platforms; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    • February 2015
    • Article

    On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Traditional Chiefs and Pre-Colonial Political Centralization

    By: Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
    We report on recent findings of a fruitful research agenda that explores the importance of ethnic-specific traits in shaping African development. First, using recent surveys from Sub-Saharan African countries, we document that individuals identify with their ethnic... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; Development Economics; Government and Politics; Africa
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    The Determinants of National Competitiveness

    By: Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
    We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than... View Details
    Keywords: Country; Competition; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics
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    • September 2012 (Revised September 2014)
    • Case

    Doing Business in Malaysia

    By: C. Fritz Foley, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong
    This case focuses on the current business environment in Malaysia as of 2012 by introducing the main economic, political and cultural aspects of the country for those interested in doing business there. The advantages and challenges of investing and doing business in... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Market Finance; Emergent Countries; Business History; Economic History; Fieldwork; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Strategy; Malaysia
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    • October 1996 (Revised January 1997)
    • Case

    Mt. Auburn Hospital

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Jaan Elias
    In December of 1993, two of Boston's largest and best known hospitals, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's, announced that they were setting aside their historic rivalry to form an alliance and build a regional health network. The announcement set off a wave... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Negotiation Offer; Alliances; Networks; Social Enterprise; Horizontal Integration; Health Industry; Boston
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    • 07 Dec 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Antonio Moreno-Garcia, Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

      Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets

      Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details

      • Web

      Frameworks - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      of successive upgrading, in which the business environment improves to enable increasingly sophisticated ways of competing. Clusters A cluster is a geographic concentration of related companies, organizations, and institutions in a... View Details
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      Policies, Rules & Guidelines | About

      Self-Catering Self-supplied food and non-alcoholic beverages is referred to as "self-catering". Sexual Harassment & Other Sexual Misconduct The School is committed to maintaining a safe and healthy educational and work environment in... View Details
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      General Management - Faculty & Research

      environment, because it translates into votes. Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms ; Environmental Regulation ; Standards ; Corporate Social Responsibility... View Details
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      Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

      100 artists and designers to present 87 art exhibitions and 1,826 public programs to over 1.8 million visitors, including many important leaders from all over the world. Given the context of the economic and political environment in the... View Details
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      Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      the business environment shows how the multiple dimensions of microeconomic competitiveness in a location are interrelated. Clusters Clusters are groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and specialized institutions... View Details