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- 6 PM – 8 PM MDT, 01 May 2019
- Career Events
Connect with HBS in Salt Lake City: Renew Your Work & Life
Connect with HBS and fellow alumni and explore four elements that are always active during career and life decision-making. You will experience a hands-on workshop to explore what work life issues are most in need of your attention at this moment in your life. View Details
- 8 AM – 8 PM MDT, 18 May 2018
- HBS Alumni Events
HBS Hacks: Solving For The Future of Work in San Francisco
Collaborate with fellow HBS alumni to create the actionable solutions to one of societys most vexing challenges. View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
prepare content that will suit everyone and cover every situation, the authors necessarily strip out the nuance of how things really work in a corporate context. “What we often get in a knowledge management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
hard work and steady support as we wrestled with these difficult issues. We hope you will plan to join us next year in Shanghai for what promises to be a unique and important event. In spite of global uncertainties, I am pleased to report... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work
process of building trust and understanding," says club president Tom Fitzgerald (MBA '82), who worked with club members James Shay Garvey (MBA '84) and Dermot Berkery (MBA '91) for eight months to organize what they called the "Step Up"... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- News
HBS Sports Professor Awarded for Work in Sports Business
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
Research: How Virtual Teams Can Better Share Knowledge
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to go out and sell himself. "Traditional... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- June 2018
- Supplement
Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (B)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Olivia Hull
Supplement to HBS No. 118-007, "Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (A)." Chief Human Resources Officer Tore Høylie was proud of REMA 1000 (REMA)’s strong employee engagement with Workplace, Facebook’s corporate social media platform; however, some users complained that the... View Details
Keywords: Social Network; Enterprise Social Media; Facebook; Workplace; Social and Collaborative Networks; Communication Technology; Problems and Challenges; Social Media; Retail Industry; Norway
Sandino, Tatiana, and Olivia Hull. "Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 118-072, June 2018.
- October 2020
- Article
Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance
By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can decrease their service time, up to a point, in order to complete work... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Knowledge Work; Discretion; Workload; Employees; Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity
KC, Diwas S., Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki, and Francesca Gino. "Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance." Management Science 66, no. 10 (October 2020).
- 26 Mar 2015
The Real Students of HBS Webinar Series: Working on a Startup at HBS Webinar
Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a student at HBS? Our monthly series, "The Real Students of HBS", is designed to help you find out. In this webinar we'll hear from students who are working on a startup while at HBS. View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s
By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina Söderholm
This working paper contributes to the burgeoning historical literature that has transformed our understanding about the relationship between big business and the environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; History; Sweden
Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, and Kristina Söderholm. "Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-050, December 2017.
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
segment called Orientation to Management, a general introduction to concepts, tools, and problem-framing methodologies. In addition, students work on developing interpersonal skills needed to be an effective leader. The next twelve weeks,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement
- 2009
- Working Paper
Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement
By: Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling
This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—providing a theory that explains when each of these methods is likely to be the most efficient. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decisions; Cost; Investment; Investment Return; Profit; Revenue; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Managerial Roles; Performance Efficiency; Strategy
Jensen, Michael C., and William H. Meckling. "Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-025, September 2009.
- Research Summary
Working Papers
By: Dennis A. Yao
Lewis, Tracy R. and Dennis A. Yao. (2001, revised 2006). "Innovation, Knowledge Flow, and Worker... View Details
- 28 Jun 2020
- News
US Business Immigration Overview
- 2008
- Working Paper
Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem
By: Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats
Prior work in organizational learning has failed to find a consistent effect of variation in experience on performance. While some studies find a positive relationship between these two variables, others find no effect or even a negative relationship. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Groups and Teams; Familiarity; India
Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley R. Staats. "Variation in Experience and Team Familiarity: Addressing the Knowledge Acquisition-Application Problem." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-035, September 2008.
- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
professionally, and as team leaders. To help you make work from home work for you, and for your team, HBS Career Coaches Mo Fong and Eileen Stephan are sharing their... View Details
Keywords: All Industries