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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
speech" about why saying "yes" to the deal you want is smart and in the other side's interests; f) constructive actions at the bargaining table informed by knowledge of the other side's internal conflicts (e.g., not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
model for integrating diverse values offers some grounds for thinking about parallel virtues in the business case. Our goal is not to offer any general prescription for organizational democracy at this stage but, instead, to argue that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World...
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by William R. Kerr
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
creative than their younger peers. Again, this turns out not to be the case: “While it's true that young minds may produce a higher volume of ideas, business guru Frans Johansson argues in his book The Medici Effect that creativity comes more from making connections...
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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It wasn't recognition or awards that...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
Wait (Harvard Business Review) A Pandemic Won’t Kill The Open Office, But Slack Could (Vanity Fair) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge There is a saying that every decision is political—not just in terms of ideology of left or...
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- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
them, first, requires in-depth knowledge of a given work setting. Quantifying them, next, requires multiple managers and employees answering questions that could get them fired if the company decided to apply its rules to the letter. This...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
students are graduates of Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH), an innovative six-year public high school program spearheaded by IBM that has improved college completion rates among disadvantaged youth and created a hiring pipeline for technology...
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by Kristen Senz
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
businesses amid the opportunities and uncertainties of developing markets throughout recent decades. Working Knowledge Editor-in-Chief Sean Silverthorne asked Gupta about his experience interviewing Kapur. Sean Silverthorne: Kapur comes...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
Cross-Boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Cross-boundary teaming, within and across organizations, is an increasingly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
model for explaining how network resources contribute to organizational performance. Reach is the extent to which an organization's network connects it to diverse and distant partners. Richness represents the potential value of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
relentless execution—efficient, timely, consistent production and delivery of goods or services—is the surefire path to customer satisfaction and positive financial results. But this is a myth in the knowledge economy, argues Edmondson, a...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
and principles—that is, by providing freedom within a galvanizing framework—leaders can equip employees to make on-the-ground decisions that are in the company’s best interests. Gulati uses businesses as diverse as Netflix, Alaska...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211014-PDF-ENG MindTree: A Community of Communities David A. Garvin and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School Case 311-049 MindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
measures of environmentalism. The team homed in on California primarily because it was (and is) the state with the largest number of municipal green-building policies. But the state also sports a wide range of environmental diversity...
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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
(their dual identity) might prove both a blessing for attracting many diverse members and a curse for achieving desired outcomes. Originality/Value: More broadly, our results suggest that dual identity organizations might attract members...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Confront the powerful divides in America The Public Option health insurance proposed by the Biden campaign will weaken our economic status by adding to the national deficit and to Medicare’s unfunded liability. We should, of course, reduce the number of uninsured, and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
inventors, including knowledge spillovers and agglomeration and the concentration of spinoffs. This work investigates a possible antecedent of inventor mobility: regional variation in the enforcement of postemployment non-compete...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
wealth of case studies, in diverse settings, based on actual implementations. Store Manager Incentive Design and Retail Performance: An Exploratory Investigation Authors:Nicole DeHoratius and Ananth Raman Periodical:Manufacturing and...
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Martha Lagace