Filter Results
:
(313)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,169)
- News (578)
- Research (313)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (71)
- Faculty Publications (162)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(1,169)
- News (578)
- Research (313)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (71)
- Faculty Publications (162)
Sort by
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
that eight of the 10 most-read HBS Working Knowledge stories of the year were COVID-focused. Readers sought insights from HBS faculty about everything from managing large-scale remote work to leading during a crisis. The year was also...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
Internet2 enjoy real-time access to remote instruments. A lab at the University of Pittsburgh, for instance, handles three-dimensional brain mapping that is "piped in" to various medical schools so students and professors can...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
occupational licensing, personal/psychological costs, and economic costs. He is currently studying productivity effects of new forms of remote work, such as “work from anywhere” and “all-remote work” arrangements on individuals,...
View Details
Keywords:
by Kristen Senz
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
normal. Robert S. Huckman (@robert_huckman) is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. Virtual medicine will become a standard option Peter Barrett: View Details
Keywords:
by Danielle Kost
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
Benefit When Employees Work Remotely These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too [Image: GermanS62]
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
conditions.” Peter McDermott’s response was particularly thought-provoking. He asked, “What good would an advocate or other voice provide if the entire leadership is distributed remotely and/or how would that be different than...
View Details
Keywords:
by James Heskett
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines...
View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that...
View Details
Keywords:
by Danielle Kost
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
company computer systems is often left unclear. Managers need to ask, "Who should have remote access to the corporate network? What safeguards must be in place before employees can connect to the corporate network from a View Details
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
women back in the workplace. Now, researchers add a new twist: They can even cause women to question their own abilities. How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely Letting independent workers choose their locations can boost...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
crucial role in helping to combat Ebola in Liberia. Founded in 2007 to serve the most remote of Liberia’s 15 counties grappling with the HIV/AIDS crisis, Last Mile Health recruits, trains and supports community members not already in the...
View Details
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
virtually, but because the technology around virtualization of work is getting so much better. "Internships will be much more meaningful and substantial than they could have been when offered through a virtual mechanism." "Interns will be able to do their work from...
View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
hospitals and governments. Separately, Medtronic is using its remote monitoring capabilities to track people with coronavirus in their homes. (Full disclosure: I am a former chair and CEO of Medtronic). Adam Schechter, LabCorp CEO, and...
View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
team that wrote hundreds of cases for the new school, now flourishing in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. At the same time, Lodge undertook a three-year research project in the remote province of Veraguas in Panama to study the process of change...
View Details
Keywords:
by Staff
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Responding to COVID-19 in early 2020 was an exercise in crisis leadership. In 2021, the pandemic feels like a painful marathon that will never end. The rapidly spreading virus forced a precipitous shift to remote work at many companies,...
View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
deftly: “How to most effectively communicate with all employees remotely and show empathy, while running around with [my] hair on fire trying to save the current business while at the same time trying to shape the future of the company in...
View Details
Keywords:
by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
offered several remote monitoring systems for hospitals, including the eICU, which it obtained through the 1998 acquisition of Visicu. In the eICU model, patients in hospital ICUs were monitored using bedside devices, which transmitted...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
This focus, I argue, limits the practical utility of the discipline because universal propositions form only a part of new policy recipes.” Remote Patient Monitoring—Overdue or Overused? New England Journal of Medicine Keizra Mecklai,...
View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
interactions to remote medical scribes, thus freeing doctors from the burden of having to manually input information into an electronic medical record (EMR) and giving them additional time to focus on patients. Shakil and Tran had grown...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne