BUSINESS SCHOOL ANNOUNCES NEW AND IMPROVED WORKING KNOWLEDGE
Online Forum Provides First Look at HBS Faculty Research
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BOSTON – Harvard Business School today announced major changes in the content and design of its highly acclaimed Working Knowledge Web site, a free online forum reaching over 100,000 weekly readers that presents the extraordinary breadth and depth of the School’s intellectual capital in a way that can be easily accessed by top practitioners.
Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (HBSWK) will continue to showcase innovations in business practice – as it has since its inception in October 1999 – but beginning today, the emphasis will shift from published materials from a variety of sources to early research by Harvard Business School professors. HBSWK will offer readers their first look at the leading-edge insights of the faculty of the world’s most well-known business school.
“Working Knowledge presents the ideas, research, and course development of Harvard Business School faculty in a format and language that business leaders can easily understand and apply – thus closing the gap between scholarship and everyday management practice,” said Professor Debora Spar, the School’s Senior Associate Dean and Director of Research. “HBSWK will be the one HBS publication that captures cutting-edge research insights at the very early stages of inception, before the research evolves into an article or a book.”
Formerly updated weekly, HBSWK will now be refreshed continuously with new work from among the more than 200 HBS faculty at the forefront of their various fields of expertise. Subscribers will be able to follow topics in keeping with their level of interest, from once-over-lightly to in depth.
Other changes to content include executive summaries accompanying each article and a special section devoted to HBS working papers. The site’s new design, a response to feedback from subscribers, includes enhanced navigation with links to related topics and industries and an easy-to-read format, and new features including Reports from the Field, access to Working Papers, Op-Eds by HBS faculty, and First Look, a weekly report on the latest research as its developed. To visit Harvard Business School Working Knowledge and to sign up for the free weekly newsletter, go to http://hbswk.hbs.edu.
About Harvard Business School
Founded in 1908 as part of Harvard University, Harvard Business School (www.hbs.edu) is located on a 40-acre campus in Boston. Its faculty of more than 200 offers full-time programs leading to the MBA and doctoral degrees, as well as more than 40 Executive Education programs. For almost a century, HBS faculty have drawn on their research, their experience in working with organizations worldwide, and their passion for teaching to educate leaders who have shaped the practice of business around the globe.