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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Virtual Water Coolers: A Field Experiment on the Role of Virtual Interactions on Organizational Newcomer Performance

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Jacqueline N. Lane and Iavor Bojinov
Designing management practices to better onboard organizational newcomers working remotely is a key priority for firms. We report results from a randomized field experiment conducted at a large global firm that estimates the performance effects of different types of... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Virtual Water Coolers; Social Interactions; Careers; Field Experiment; Employees; Interpersonal Communication; Internet and the Web; Performance; Personal Development and Career
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    Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Past research has focused on understanding the characteristics of work that are fully virtual or fully collocated. The present study seeks to expand our understanding of team work by studying knowledge workers' experiences as they were suddenly forced to... View Details
    • November 2020
    • Case

    Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Iavor I. Bojinov and Emma Salomon
    Goldman Sachs runs an annual internship for over 3,000 participants, spread across dozens of the firm's global offices. In 2020, the team brought all its resources to bear to transform the internship program into a fully virtual format in just a few short weeks. The... View Details
    Keywords: Remote Work; Remote Operations; Remote Internship; Internship; Virtual Socialization; Human Capital Management; Human Resources; Management; Health Pandemics; Adaptation
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    • 11 Dec 2014
    • News

    Working Smoothly with a Virtual Boss

    Keywords: coworker relationships; communication; Internet
    • 2021
    • Book

    Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    The rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by COVID-19 have accelerated the transition to remote working, requiring the wholesale migration of nearly entire companies to virtual work in just weeks, leaving managers and employees scrambling to adjust. This massive... View Details
    Keywords: Remote Work; Health Pandemics; Employment; Disruption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management
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    • Article

    GitLab: Work Where You Want, When You Want

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Kevin Crowston, Linus Dahlander, Marco S. Minervini and Sumita Raghuram
    GitLab is a software company that works “all remote” at the scale of more than 1,000 employees located in more than 60 countries. GitLab has no physical office and its employees can work from anywhere they choose. Any step of the organizational life of a GitLab... View Details
    Keywords: New Forms Of Organizing; Remote Work; All Remote; Virtual Organizations; COVID-19; Organizational Design; Employees; Geographic Location; Health Pandemics
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    • 27 Nov 2021
    • News

    Virtual Reality: Remote Work is Here to Stay

    • January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
    • Case

    TCS: From Physical Offices to Borderless Work

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Malini Sen
    Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a multinational IT services company headquartered in Mumbai, is a subsidiary of one of India’s most reputed conglomerates, the Tata Group. In 2020, TCS was valued at $144.7 billion, the highest for any company in the IT sector,... View Details
    Keywords: Remote Work; Organizational Structure; Change Management; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Customer Satisfaction; Information Technology Industry; India; Asia; United States; Europe
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    • 11 May 2022
    • News

    Virtually Present: Meta’s Vision for the Hybrid Workplace

    Keywords: hybrid work
    • 2014
    • Article

    Where Global and Virtual Meet: The Value of Examining the Intersection of These Elements in Twenty-First-Century Teams

    By: Cristina B. Gibson, Laura Huang, Bradley L. Kirkman and Debra L. Shapiro
    We review prior research that has examined virtuality in teams (e.g., pertaining to the use of electronic media) or the global nature of teams (e.g., national and cultural differences), demonstrating that very few scholars have examined both simultaneously. Given that... View Details
    Keywords: Global Virtual Teams; Cultural Diversity; Electronic Communication; Computer-mediated Communication; Groups and Teams; Global Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Interactive Communication
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    • 28 Aug 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

    variation of online shopping. Rather than just study the problem, they also came up with a possible solution: Virtual Dates. The researchers began their work by talking to online-dating-site users about... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing
    • 14 Jun 2021
    • News

    Onboarding Summer Interns in a Virtual Work Environment: An Experiment Highlights the Pros and Cons of “Virtual Water Coolers”.

    • 11 Mar 2020
    • News

    Zooming into Remote Work: A Virtual Conversation

    • 18 Jun 2021
    • News

    Remote Work Revolution

    • 19 Jul 2020
    • News

    Remote Work Revolution

    • 31 Mar 2020
    • Video

    Virtual Books@Baker with Laura Huang

    • 30 Aug 2021
    • News

    Kominers’s Conundrums: A Heist Leads to a Virtual Adventure

    • 08 Jul 2021

    MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Virtual Event

    Join us for a virtual event with program faculty, Admissions staff, students and alumni to learn more about Harvard's MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program. Prospective students must have an undergraduate degree in engineering, computer... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein

    To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

    Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management
    • 14 Jun 2022

    MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Virtual Event

    Join us for a virtual event with program faculty, Admissions staff, students and alumni to learn more about Harvard's MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences program. Prospective students must have an undergraduate degree in engineering, computer... View Details