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  • September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and David Kiron
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) faces a serious loss of knowledge--both because of the "faster, better, cheaper" mandate for Mars missions and from the retirement of key personnel. An extensive knowledge management system for NASA/JPL includes formal knowledge-capture... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership Development; Internet and the Web; Risk and Uncertainty; Organizational Culture; Retirement; Human Resources; Human Capital
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  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

exploded, the strength of the apprenticeship process has weakened, and partner quality has likely been diluted. Turbulence in the tech and private equity labor markets have also closed off opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

outside directors with more expertise and experience. Also, busy directors are less likely to serve on multiple committees, possibly to avoid being overloaded. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51853 Cost View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

human capital from the country. “One problem we are facing is super practical and that is navigating the Visa issues to make the model sustainable,” Takatsuka said. “The second problem we want to solve for... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

Abstract Empirical evidence of imperfect integration across world capital markets suggests a role for cross-border arbitrage by multinationals. Consistent with the hypothesis that multinational arbitrage is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

and grow cohesive teams with a tribe of supporters and advisers. “We saw this as a moment to focus on the human side of learning and connecting in a remote world,” said... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

of real-world systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-059.pdf Quality Provision, Expected Firm Altruism and Brand Extensions Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Abstract This paper studies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2010 (Revised April 2012)
  • Case

Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd (Abridged)

The case describes two individuals who have met and are in the process of starting a company together. Each is still at his/her former employer, and each has signed a different employment agreement that, on paper, may prohibit some of the contemplated acts—i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Resignation and Termination; Intellectual Property; Law; Agreements and Arrangements
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  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

intention of the course is to leave the participants actually being leaders and being able to exercise leadership effectively and for the course to contribute to creating a new science of leadership. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

workers' quality becomes known only in the late part of the market. However, in equilibrium, matching can occur (inefficiently) early only when there is comparable demand and supply: a surplus View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

Ceilings, Floors, and Imperfect Calibration Authors:F. Gino, Z. S. Sharek, and D. A. Moore Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research has claimed that people exaggerate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2018
  • Cold Call Podcast

Vodafone’s Innovative Approach to Advanced Technologies

Keywords: Telecommunications
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

team-specific human capital by investing more in the internal networks and unique capabilities and resources of their own companies. Second, women took greater care when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe. European IFRS adoption represented a major milestone towards financial reporting convergence yet spurred controversy reaching the highest levels of government. We find a more positive reaction for... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

which operates through a logic of embeddedness. We examine how the effect of joint dependence on performance is mediated by specific elements of embeddedness: joint action,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

Tax Aversion in Labor Supply

By: Judd B. Kessler and Michael I. Norton
In a real-effort laboratory experiment, labor supply decreases more with the introduction of a tax than with a financially equivalent drop in wages. This “tax aversion” is large in magnitude: when we decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we... View Details
Keywords: Taxes; Labor Supply; Productivity; Experiments; Wages; Human Capital; Performance Productivity; Taxation
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  • 30 May 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

companies have to go to world-scale very quickly. And in most firms, if you're not a global competitor in a few years, you're never going to get there because somebody will be there ahead of you. So I think cross-border flows View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney