HBS's 'Working Knowledge' Website Showcases Faculty Research

The Harvard Business School has used its 'Working Knowledge' website to showcase published research by HBS faculty since late 1999. Beginning this summer, however, it will put more emphasis on works-in-progress, giving website visitors an early look at developing insights to business, entrepreneurship, management, finance, globalization, and other topics.

Faculty members presently featured on 'Working Knowledge' include:

Prof. Robert D. Austin, on "The Accidental Innovator." Austin, an associate professor in HBS's Technology, Innovations, and Management unit, discusses the serendipitous nature of many technological breakthroughs and how organizations can position themselves to recognize and exploit such fortuitous accidents.

Prof. Boris Groysberg, on "Why CEOS Are Not Plug-and-Play." Groysberg, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior unit of HBS, explains why CEOS need company-specific skills to succeed in some situations.

Stacey Childress on "Public Education Goes to School." Childress, a lecturer and senior researcher in HBS' Entrepreneurial Management unit, discusses the results to date of a joint HBS-Harvard School of Education program to apply new management concepts to 9 school districts across the U.S.

For more information, visit 'Working Knowledge' at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/.