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- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
technology on the newspaper business with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne in this e-mail interview. An article based on Gilbert's doctoral research in this area received the Robert Litschert... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
subordinate to the functions? Maybe you should organize by product, with separate units set up to serve specific markets. You play with the different combinations in your hands. How to decide ... This is the most obvious—and vexing—problem of organization design:... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
point that is likely to forever change us, as did the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Brooks suggests using this period as an opportunity to take stock of your own life. Does your View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
leaders to make those hard decisions either." John argued that what is missing in MMT is that most economic theory works only within a limited range of economic conditions. “While the U.S. will benefit from MMT for perhaps a long... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
competitor Picplz (a poor bet, as was proven by history). In both these cases, the startups stood to benefit not only from the monetary investment, but also from the knowledge the VCs obtained in advising their direct competitor. As it... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management that would qualify as a "profession," combining "mastery of specific knowledge with adherence to certain formal or informal codes of conduct and, even more fundamental, to an ideal of service." Graduates... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsBundling the Contracts: TA-Energy Harvard Business School Case 807-075 Stimulates discussion of entrepreneurship in emerging economies, especially for entrepreneurs returning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to share her latest thinking. Her new book, Clearing the Hurdles, co-written with Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia G. Greene,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
consistent with better audit quality from knowledge spillovers due to the joint offering of audit and consulting services. Events related to the repeal of these NAS disclosures in 1982 are associated with a small positive stock price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
among historians and scholars from other disciplines who are taking a historical approach to their work has demanded intellectual leadership. Al Chandler has provided that leadership for more than forty years. Early in his career, he... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
would call near the frontier of human experience. Ordinarily I'd say near the frontier of business experience, but creative collaboration is very much relevant to business and the field of innovation." Austin is writing a book—the View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
who was working in Tokyo last week when tremors hit the city. He left his office to drive home. The usual 10-minute trip lasted four hours. Despite their lack of knowledge of what was happening and the full... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
intangibles (such as its distinctive culture) and tacit knowledge that could best be conveyed within a single organizational structure. Similarly, but on a much larger scale, the Salvation Army operates primarily as a branch organization,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Lawrence noted years ago, is "the vehicle by which a chunk of reality is brought into the classroom to be worked over by the class and the instructor." Most cases require students to assume the role of the protagonist and to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
Casadesus-Masanell and Hervás-Drane provide additional details about their research in the Q&A below. They collaborated in answering the following questions for Working Knowledge via email. Q: It appears... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
John Walson launched the first commercial cable television system in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, an Appalachian town eighty-six miles from Philadelphia. 1,2 Walson worked as a lineman for Pennsylvania Power & Light and also owned a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the largest investors in bonds—banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds—aren't willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I propose is a neutral third-party approach to ratings. The SEC would designate a View Details