How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
Intergroup conflict can grind office productivity to a halt. Jeffrey Lees discusses how understanding psychological stereotypes can help divided parties compromise.
View ArticleTaking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
Giving women in rural India more control over household finances reduces the social stigma of working, says research by Natalia Rigol.
View ArticleDoes Apple Anchor a Shopping Mall? The Effect of the Technology Stores on the...
How do technology stores, particularly those owned by Apple and Microsoft, affect retail sales and market dynamics at malls? Through modeling and simulation, the authors found that these stores helped...
View Article6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
What does it take to truly change the world? In The Wise Company, Hirotaka Takeuchi shares the practices that help leading companies turn knowledge into lasting breakthroughs.
View ArticleCreating the Experimentation Organization
New tools allow companies to innovate on an unprecedented scale, in every aspect of business. But the organization must also change. Stefan Thomke previews his forthcoming book, "Experimentation Works".
View ArticleTech Clusters
This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully foster them.
View ArticleRead Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
Here are the most-read stories published by Harvard Business School Working Knowledge in 2019. Now it's your turn: What will be the biggest stories—the most significant business trends—of 2020?
View ArticleWhy Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
The United States limits the number of skilled workers allowed to immigrate to the country. Is it time to expand the H-1B visa program? James Heskett asks.
View ArticleMedicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
A public insurance option could use its scale to hold prices down, but only if the approach avoids the financing gimmicks that are undermining Medicare, say Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace.
View ArticleMotivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge
Companies are sitting on a largely untapped resource to improve employee performance, says HBS professor Christopher Stanton—the knowledge of their co-workers.
View ArticleThe Future of Executive Development: The CLO’s Compass and The Executive...
This paper guides providers as well as chief learning officers and chief talent officers who want to chart effective routes through the emerging landscape of executive development.
View ArticleFrom Know-It-Alls to Learn-It-Alls: Executive Development in the Era of...
The authors examine the future of executive education on a technological and cultural landscape that is imminent but different to the one we are accustomed to.
View ArticleNFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
Football team owners are hiring younger head coaches, hoping to unleash innovation and fresh thinking. How's that working out? Research by Boris Groysberg and colleagues.
View ArticleRethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
For the first time in 100 years, new technologies such as artificial intelligence are causing firms to rethink their competitive strategy and organizational structure, say the authors of a new book,...
View ArticleManagerial Recognition as an Incentive for Innovation Platform Engagement: A...
What gets workers to go the extra mile in creative problem solving? A field experiment and interviews with NASA employees finds that employees respond to managerial appreciation above other incentives.
View ArticleDo Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
Elizabeth Warren calls them Wall Street "looting," but a recent study by Josh Lerner and colleagues shows private equity buyouts have both good and bad impacts.
View ArticleEngineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge...
By creating opportunities for cross-disciplinary scientists to meet and talk as part of a natural field experiment, this study analyzes and finds evidence for a systematic relationship between...
View ArticleThe Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
New research by Frank Nagle and Florenta Teodoridis shows that a jack-of-all-trades may be better equipped than a specialist to jump on novel knowledge.
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