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- 04 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
applying knowledge in pursuit of innovation. “When you peel back the layers of these companies, you find that these six qualities are practiced, and often they have family edicts that are passed down from one generation to the next,” says...
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by Kristen Senz
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
problems or create value in some way. What's driving this trend? Karim Lakhani: The main driver is accessing knowledge that is widely distributed in the world. Many organizations are now finding they simply do not have the ability to...
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- 02 Dec 2013
- News
Stop watching your workers
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
Today the site is very productive in transferring knowledge from Lilly's home base to Kobe and in commercializing that knowledge throughout Japan and Asia.
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by Walter Kuemmerle
Return migration and geography of innovation in MNEs
I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them at geographically distant research and development (R&D) locations. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a... View Details
- 10 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?
sheds light on a question vexing economists, consumers, and retailers alike: When will prices return to normal? The answer depends on the type of product, and how quickly each individual industry recovers, says Cavallo. When a product is...
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by Rachel Layne
- 22 Apr 2012
- News
The Pros and Cons of Hiring Outsiders
- July 2012
- Case
Johannes Linden: Managing the Global Executive Committee
By: Linda A. Hill and Mark Rennella
Johannes Linden is the Director of the Washer and Dryer division of Fluss, a large Swiss appliance manufacturer. Soon after the company completes its revenue projections and bonus targets for the upcoming year, Linden shares some good news with his leadership team, the...
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Leadership Style;
Groups and Teams;
Organizational Culture;
Management Style;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Consumer Products Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Switzerland
Hill, Linda A., and Mark Rennella. "Johannes Linden: Managing the Global Executive Committee." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-509, July 2012.
- November–December 2020
- Article
Our Work-from-Anywhere Future
The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while workers can...
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Remote Work;
Best Practices;
Employment;
Health Pandemics;
Geographic Location;
Opportunities;
Problems and Challenges
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Our Work-from-Anywhere Future." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 6 (November–December 2020).
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What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools: Avoid the Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate
By: Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley
Workplaces have adopted internal social tools—think stand-alone technologies such as Slack, Yammer, and Chatter, or embedded applications such as Microsoft Teams and JIRA—at a staggering rate. In an ambitious study of 4,200 companies, conducted by the McKinsey Global...
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Leadership;
Social Tools;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Knowledge Sharing;
Performance Improvement;
Management
Leonardi, Paul, and Tsedal Neeley. "What Managers Need to Know About Social Tools: Avoid the Common Pitfalls So That Your Organization Can Collaborate, Learn, and Innovate." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 6 (November–December 2017): 118–126.
- 25 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model
information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or...
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- 11 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Learning By Thinking: How Reflection Improves Performance
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
have been filed in the US patent system,” Choudhury says. “If you look at the way knowledge gets subsequently recombined, then that knowledge production becomes much bigger...
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- 24 Apr 2023
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks
business—economies of scale and repeatable models, for example—might not apply. You Might Also Like: Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally When...
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- 2009
- Working Paper
Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others
By: Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate
This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of the work. We present data from an exploratory...
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Competency and Skills;
Learning;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Product Development;
Groups and Teams;
Behavior
Soule, Deborah L., and Lynda M. Applegate. "Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-084, January 2009.
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators You may think you are an ethical person, but self-interest can cloud your judgment when you sit down at the bargaining table, says Max Bazerman. The year’s 5 most downloaded research papers Working View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
gas regulations are more likely to share greenhouse gas emissions levels and reduction targets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-026.pdf The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Summer 2016
- Article
Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View
By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu
The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality...
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Prejudice and Bias;
Internet and the Web;
Balance and Stability;
Operations;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Dissemination
Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu. "Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View." Information Systems Research 27, no. 3 (September 2016): 618–635.
Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia
Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares the accuracy of crowd-produced and expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective,...
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