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Making Sure Independent Doesn't Mean Ignorant
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Colin Carter
Keywords:
Knowledge Use and Leverage
Lorsch, Jay W., and Colin Carter. "Making Sure Independent Doesn't Mean Ignorant." October 2002.
- October 2019
- Article
Correcting Consumer Misperception
For the well informed, taking actions to curb energy consumption from household appliances is uncomplicated. Now, research shows that simple information provision interventions can correct consumer misperceptions of the energy consumed by common appliances, offering...
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Asensio, Omar Isaac. "Correcting Consumer Misperception." Nature Energy 4, no. 10 (October 2019): 823–824.
- December 2014
- Article
Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information Processing Failures
By: M. C. Schippers, A. C. Edmondson and M. A. West
This article proposes that team reflexivity—a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes—can function as an antidote to team-level biases and errors in decision making. We build on prior work conceptualizing teams as information-processing...
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Keywords:
Team Reflexivity;
Team Information-processesing Failures;
Team Regulatory Processes;
Team Learning;
Groups and Teams;
Knowledge Management
Schippers, M. C., A. C. Edmondson, and M. A. West. "Team Reflexivity as an Antidote to Team Information Processing Failures." Small Group Research 45, no. 6 (December 2014): 731–769.
- August 2009 (Revised December 2012)
- Background Note
Researching a Company
By: Willy Shih and Meghan Dolan
This note was written to help students at the Harvard Business School do a more thorough job of researching a company, utilizing the extensive resources of the Baker Library, as well as other widely available databases. Exhibits provide detailed information on key...
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Shih, Willy, and Meghan Dolan. "Researching a Company." Harvard Business School Background Note 610-024, August 2009. (Revised December 2012.)
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
Jennifer Davis recalled the "quip that states that some people have 20 years experience and others have had the 1 year of experience 20 times." Stan Heard pointed out, "It is possible to get experience without deriving View Details
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by Jim Heskett
- 21 Jul 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?
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by Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
- October 2010 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Robin Bienenstock at Sanford C. Bernstein
By: Linda A. Hill and Dana Teppert
Robin Bienenstock, a senior sell-side equity research analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein, considers how to build her research franchise given the changing nature of the industry and the firm. A collaborative research paper called "Computer in Your Pocket" was recently...
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Keywords:
Employees;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Knowledge Sharing;
Leadership;
Groups and Teams;
Research;
Cooperation;
Financial Services Industry
Hill, Linda A., and Dana Teppert. "Robin Bienenstock at Sanford C. Bernstein." Harvard Business School Supplement 411-053, October 2010. (Revised July 2012.)
- 1998
- Book
Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation
By: D. A. Leonard
Keywords:
Knowledge
Leonard, D. A. Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation. Paperback ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1998.
- January 1995 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Pharmaceutical Industry in the 1990s, The
Describes the pharmaceutical industry in the 1990s, with particular emphasis on the mergers between American manufacturers and prescription-benefits managers (PBMs). PBMs are distributors with unprecedented access to information on patient and physician...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Distribution;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Knowledge Management;
Distribution Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
McGahan, Anita M., Greg Keller, and John F. McGuire. "Pharmaceutical Industry in the 1990s, The." Harvard Business School Case 796-058, January 1995. (Revised July 1996.)
- March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
BOOKOFF Corporation in 2006
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Yoshinori Fujikawa
A visionary founder appoints a former part-time worker and homemaker as his successor in order to keep the corporate culture he created intact.
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- May – June 2001
- Article
Reproducing Knowledge: Replication Without Imitation at Moderate Complexity
By: J. Rivkin
Keywords:
Knowledge
Rivkin, J. "Reproducing Knowledge: Replication Without Imitation at Moderate Complexity." Organization Science 12, no. 3 (May–June 2001).
- 1984
- Book
Technology Crossing Borders: The Choice, Transfer, and Management of International Technology Flows
By: Louis T. Wells and Robert B. Stobaugh
Wells, Louis T. and Robert B. Stobaugh, eds. Technology Crossing Borders: The Choice, Transfer, and Management of International Technology Flows. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1984.
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
What's next for Web services? In his case summary "Will Web Services Really Transform Collaboration?" published in the Winter 2005 edition of MIT Sloan Management Review, HBS associate professor Andrew P. McAfee argues that the benefits of Web services, in...
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by Sara Grant
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations," it wasn't that long ago that...
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by Jim Aisner
- December 2021
- Article
Three Paradoxes of Climate Truth for the Anthropocene Social Scientist
By: P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew J. Hoffman
Climate change has been one of the most contested truths for the past two decades. Many social scientists within the academy and this volume have spent years discerning the nature of this truth and articulating its importance for business, organizations, and society....
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Jennings, P. Devereaux, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Three Paradoxes of Climate Truth for the Anthropocene Social Scientist." Special Issue on Regenerative Organizations edited by Pablo Muñoz and Oana Branzei. Organization & Environment 34, no. 4 (December 2021): 517–529.
- April 2011 (Revised April 2014)
- Case
ASAHI Net: Bringing Innovation to Education
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
ASAHI Net developed a cloud-based platform for higher education institutions to use in Japan and was wondering if that platform could be accepted in the U.S. as well.
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Keywords:
Higher Education;
Information Management;
Innovation and Invention;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Technology Platform;
Education Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Japan;
United States
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "ASAHI Net: Bringing Innovation to Education." Harvard Business School Case 711-498, April 2011. (Revised April 2014.)
- November 2010
- Supplement
Hikma Pharmaceuticals (B)
By: John A. Quelch
By 2009, Hikma Pharmaceuticals operated 13 manufacturing plants in 8 countries of which 5 were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Hikma tracked its sales revenues over the period to show where the largest contributors were from.
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Quelch, John A. "Hikma Pharmaceuticals (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 511-075, November 2010.
- April 13, 2021
- Article
Misinformation about Science in the Public Sphere
By: Dietram A. Scheufele, Andrew J. Hoffman, Liz Neely and Czerne M. Reid
This is an introduction to a special issue on a colloquium of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine titled, “Advancing the science and practice of science communication: Misinformation about science in the public sphere.” This event was the...
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Scheufele, Dietram A., Andrew J. Hoffman, Liz Neely, and Czerne M. Reid. "Misinformation about Science in the Public Sphere." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 15 (April 13, 2021).