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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients Sunil Gupta and Jason RiisHarvard Business School Case 511-093 PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community where patients share their personal experiences with a disease, find other patients like them, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
especially managers, that they cannot expect answers instantaneously.” Examine the geographical distribution of their teams. Companies that distribute workers north and south to minimize time differences might maintain more synchronous communication, even if there are...
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by Michael Blanding
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49819 Sharing Private Information with Customers: Strategic Default and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to...
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- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
about what you are communicating. You also need to work hard to shrink the psychological distance through language. When you have disparity in terms of fluency levels in English, you have to make sure fluent speakers are dialing down to...
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by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
promotions to control the flow of shoppers inside stores to meet social distancing requirements. Many started offering Black Friday deals in early November. Discounts appear to be larger than ever this year, likely reflecting soft...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
workplace friendships, firms can minimize the psychological costs of homesickness, which increase depending on how far the employee is from home, according to Choudhury’s study, Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic Mobility: How View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted them to experience a sense of how it feels to work in a platinum mine, where the View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
restrictions—may need to refine their outreach to a pandemic-weary public, especially when it comes to high-risk activities, such as indoor dining. As vaccine hopes and holiday loneliness make distancing harder, consumers will need more...
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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
throughout the performance of the task, acutely aware of the pain experienced by those on the receiving end of their actions. This finding was surprising to us in light of previous research, which has emphasized how people distance...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
between keeping one's distance and staying involved. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-114.pdf Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts By: Mollick, Ethan...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
paper details the results of nine studies showing that advisors not only get offended when their guidance is disregarded, but they may punish those colleagues by denigrating them, distancing themselves—and in some cases, even severing the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
companies, and in countries characterized by high individualism and high power distance national cultures. Private Power in Indonesia Author:L.T. Wells, Jr. Publication:Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, forthcoming (December 2007)....
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
plastic seemed like a godsend: perhaps Gotham Greens could create packaging from plastic that degraded naturally and replenished the soil. As team members learned more about this option, however, they concluded that compostable plastic...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
All this makes for a case study of the moral courage of ordinary Japanese citizens in times of crisis. There are lessons to be learned here by the rest of us. W. Carl Kester, George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration...
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- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
happy hours, and if possible, having a physically distancing picnic. Social connection doesn’t always mean a Zoom call; sometimes even a text message can be enough. Use ‘job crafting’ to let employees modify their roles Jayanth Narayanan,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
seed-capital investments or alumni groups. Experiments with other models, whether internal or with partners, provide experience and readiness for future change. Learning from partners, or from corporate venture capital investments, is a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
strikes. “At HBS, we do a great job of teaching students how to build things but we really haven’t had much [to offer] when the stuff really hits the fan. What happens when you’re up against it, between a rock and a hard place?” THAT OVERWHELMING FEELING Those thoughts...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
independently. Then I was thrilled to learn that implementation is well under way. Q: Have you ridden in a PRT? If so, how was it? A: I've ridden the Vectus test track in Uppsala, Sweden, and I've toured the new installation (scheduled to...
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- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
Bazerman and Valley and their colleagues herald the developments in negotiation studies, they also believe that the five emerging areas will enable researchers to comprehend—most importantly—how negotiators themselves define and create the game, both psychologically...
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by Martha Lagace