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- 2000
- Working Paper
Leveraging the Customer Base: Creating Competitive Advantage Through Knowledge Management
By: Elie Ofek and Miklos Sarvary
- November, 2022
- Article
Role of Context in Knowledge Flows: Host Country versus Headquarters as Sources of MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance
By: Mike Horia Teodorescu, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
We respond to calls in the strategy and international business literature for elucidating how multinational subsidiaries develop contextual intelligence in host countries and how they use the local context as a source of valuable opportunities for learning. Applying...
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Keywords:
MNCs;
Knowledge Flows;
Innovation;
Gravity Model;
Absorptive Capacity;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business Subsidiaries;
Knowledge Management;
Business Headquarters;
Innovation and Invention
Teodorescu, Mike Horia, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Tarun Khanna. "Role of Context in Knowledge Flows: Host Country versus Headquarters as Sources of MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance." Special Issue on Decade Celebration Special Issue II. Global Strategy Journal 12, no. 4 (November, 2022): 658–678.
- 2009
- Article
Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance
By: Heidi K. Gardner
Why do some teams fail to use their members' knowledge effectively, even after having correctly identified each other's expertise? This paper identifies performance pressure as a critical barrier to effective knowledge utilization in teams. I theorize that performance...
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Keywords:
Experience and Expertise;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Expectations;
Groups and Teams
Gardner, Heidi K. "Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2009).
- summer 2001
- Article
Using Mentoring and Storytelling to Transfer Knowledge in the Workplace
By: Walter C. Swap, Dorothy A. Leonard, Mary Shields and Lisa Abrams
- May 2007
- Article
Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers
By: Juan Alcacer and Wilbur Chung
Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function of locations' knowledge activity, their own capabilities, and...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
For-Profit Firms;
Knowledge Management;
Research and Development;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Five Forces Framework;
Cost Management;
Technology;
Competition;
United States
Alcacer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers." Management Science 53, no. 5 (May 2007): 760–776.
- 31 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge
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by Carliss Y. Baldwin
- 1 Apr 2001
- Conference Presentation
Knowledge Sharing Practices and Technology Use Norms in Dispersed Development Teams
By: Deborah Soule and Lynda M. Applegate
- 20 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
- 02 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams
- 2010
- Working Paper
When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge
This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Investment Return;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Design;
Organizational Design;
Competitive Advantage;
Technology Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-063, February 2010. (Revised July 2010, October 2010.)
- August 2020
- Article
Workplace Knowledge Flows
By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
We conducted a field experiment in a sales firm to test whether improving knowledge flows between coworkers affects productivity. Our design allows us to compare different management practices and to isolate whether frictions to knowledge transmission primarily reside...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Sharing;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employees;
Performance Productivity;
Sales;
Motivation and Incentives
Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Workplace Knowledge Flows." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 3 (August 2020): 1635–1680.
- Spring 2019
- Article
Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations
By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson
To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository has the...
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Keywords:
Teaming;
Teams;
Groups and Teams;
Knowledge Management;
Service Delivery;
Knowledge Use and Leverage
Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 21, no. 2 (Spring 2019): 346–360.
- March 1996
- Case
Erox Corporation: Leverage Marketing
Erox Corp. is a biotechnology start-up that creates products containing synthetic human pheromones. It was founded in 1989, went public in 1993, and brought in a turnaround team in 1994. Sales ramped from $110,000 in 1993 to over $1 million in 1994, with prospects for...
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Kosnik, Thomas J. "Erox Corporation: Leverage Marketing." Harvard Business School Case 596-046, March 1996.
- June 2015
- Article
Does Google Leverage Market Power Through Tying and Bundling?
By: Benjamin Edelman
I examine Google's pattern and practice of tying to leverage its dominance into new sectors. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I explore the...
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Keywords:
Competition;
Antitrust;
Google;
Tying;
Bundling;
Competitive Strategy;
Search Technology;
Law;
Information Technology Industry;
Advertising Industry
Edelman, Benjamin. "Does Google Leverage Market Power Through Tying and Bundling?" Journal of Competition Law & Economics 11, no. 2 (June 2015): 365–400.
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
expertise can easily slip out the door when an employee leaves or retires. You need to capture and transfer that knowledge. One way to do that is through coaching, and the following book excerpt discusses...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- July 2011
- Article
The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking
By: Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner
This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private equity sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships are an...
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Private Equity;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Interest Rates;
Investment Return;
Relationships;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Ivashina, Victoria, and Anna Kovner. "The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking." Review of Financial Studies 24, no. 7 (July 2011): 2462–2498.
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
The research of HBS professor Boris Groysberg centers on a question that troubles many managers: How do I hire and develop top performers who will contribute to my company's success? The author of Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
time between the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and the United States, both stress that attending OPM improved their businesses as well as their personal lives. “HBS enriched us tremendously,” says Hesham....
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- Web
Leverage LinkedIn - Alumni
Careers Leverage LinkedIn Careers Leverage LinkedIn LinkedIn is a powerful networking tool. Whether or not you're looking for a new role, recruiters may be using it to look for...
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- 2008
- Chapter
Knowledge Work, Craft Work, and Calling
Social critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements of work that have been...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Working Conditions;
Production;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Management Practices and Processes;
Employees
Austin, Robert D., and Lee Devin. "Knowledge Work, Craft Work, and Calling." In Global Neighbors: Christian Faith and Moral Obligation in Today's Economy, edited by Douglas A. Hicks and Mark Valeri. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2008.