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- 2023
- Working Paper
Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space
By: Stephen Hansen, Peter John Lambert, Nick Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Raffaella Sadun and Bledi Taska
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize
this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five
English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing
framework...
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Remote Work;
Hybrid Work;
Work From Home (WFH);
Pandemic;
Labor Market;
Job Search;
Job Design and Levels;
Trends
Hansen, Stephen, Peter John Lambert, Nick Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Raffaella Sadun, and Bledi Taska. "Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31007, March 2023. (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-059, March 2023.)
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Even predictions based on an analysis of trends can have a bad name. Beatrice Haurenson, commenting on trend analysis, said: "What did the analysis of 'Trends' pre-2007 tell us?" Tom Dolembo...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
use it. In the paper, Luca, Edward L. Glaeser and Scott Duke Kominers (PhDBE 2011) of Harvard University, and PhD student Nikhil Naik of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, cite three trends that make cities particularly...
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- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
that establish the going rate for talent according to company size, industry, and geography. Salaries in these tables are reported in quartiles, from highest to lowest amounts, and no corporate compensation committee wants to say that it went bargain hunting for...
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by Jim Aisner
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
attainment outcomes (measured primarily by students' completion rates at various grade levels). Deals with outcome trends within the general U.S. school-aged population and covers educational outcomes in various subpopulations of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
process of moving new therapies from discovery to patients in need. Although the annual conference (Partnering for Cures) to improve how government research was organized was a huge success, Anderson considered refocusing resources on greater challenges. For example,...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- February 1988
- Case
Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. (Condensed)
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Richard S. Rosenbloom
A condensed version of Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. The principal changes are the elimination of details about the early history of the company and condensation of the final section, Outlook for the Future.
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Risk and Uncertainty;
Industry Growth;
Environmental Sustainability;
Business Strategy;
Trends;
Manufacturing Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Richard S. Rosenbloom. "Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc. (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 388-096, February 1988.
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
materials for the first year MBA core curriculum and created three programs for executive education both here and off campus. What did your participants identify as some of the major trends or issues influencing the real estate...
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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity measurement,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
laggards in Internet adoption, on average. However, we find that the rate of patent growth was faster among counties who were not leaders in patenting in the early 1990s but were leaders in Internet adoption by 2000, suggesting that the Internet helped stem the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
suspect we will see these trends continue—additional emphasis on specifying goals and achievement, more creative networked forms of organization and activity, and more attention to working on systemic challenges. This will force us,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
globalization, Rangan declares, requires blueprints from governments to use those resources to help people escape poverty. In the private sector, Rangan sees a positive trend among multinational corporations within industries to set and...
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by Garry Emmons
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
That is a general secular trend some companies will have to fight against for their success. I used to believe that people have a strong preference for being together, but I increasingly feel like our base core tendency, actually, is to...
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- February 2013 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect?
By: Willy C. Shih and Sen Chai
Senior managers at the LEGO Group are faced with a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and...
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Plastics;
Injection Molding;
Toys;
LEGO;
LEGO Group;
Tools;
Additive Manufacturing;
3D Manufacturing;
Toolmaking;
Patenting;
Spillovers;
Knowledge Spillovers;
Change;
Trends;
Engineering;
Machinery and Machining;
Intellectual Property;
Patents;
Operations;
Production;
Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Consumer Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Technology Industry;
Europe;
Denmark
Shih, Willy C., and Sen Chai. "The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect?" Harvard Business School Case 613-079, February 2013. (Revised March 2015.)
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
activity, a trend that shows little tendency of alleviating. This book looks at the experiences of governments in encouraging entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across many decades and continents. Certainly, the dollars spent each year...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
questions about the future of dispersed ownership and the separation between management and ownership,” says Viceira. “The way we answer these questions may literally determine the future of capitalism.” Related Reading: Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal...
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- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
proximity to headquarters and corporate siblings are associated with superior performance trends following information disclosure. We also find that regional density moderates effect of establishment size on performance improvement. We...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
far more attention. In this compelling and authoritative new book, the authors document a rising chorus of concerns about business schools gleaned from extensive interviews with deans and executives as well as from a detailed analysis of current curricula and emerging...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309034 Enel: Power, Russia, and Global Markets Harvard Business School Case 709-046 Although the global trend toward liberalization of electric utilities...
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Martha Lagace