Remote Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

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... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

geographic mobility and remote work that have implications for firms and individual career outcomes. “People are not moving far away from their hometowns like they used to,” he says, “and there has been no... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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 View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

Remote Work: Pandemic Edition These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works 7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19 What do great leaders do differently? Share your insights below. View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

Most organizations already have at least some of these processes in place, but they rarely develop and manage them in a coherent, consistent way. Here are eight things that your company should be working on. Identify your company's... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

Matter in Remote Work How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

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

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

roll out a similar model beyond India—maybe even into Europe and the U.S. What's the secret? According to HBS professor Tarun Khanna, the success of the hospital, called Narayana Hrudayalaya, is due to the vision and tireless work of a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

new working paper, Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life, Luca and three collaborators argue that cities have never been better positioned to take advantage of the vast amounts of data... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

(iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and Web3? What are the strategic implications for my organization of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

it work for more than a billion people. Workers have brought laptops with all the necessary equipment to remote villages in the country, places with no electricity or connectivity. If residents do not have... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

efficiency, remote troubleshooting, and customer personalization—has been delayed despite wide acceptance by many experts that the existing power system is falling far short of America's energy needs. In 2009, energy demand in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

leaders teach? What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below. Reference: Thomas J. DeLong, Teaching by Heart: One Professor’s Journey to Inspire (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019) Summing up last month’s column Last month we explored together... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

safety can be demonstrated before consumers leave for safer substitutes. “The demand shock caused by an accident could actually be good news for companies,” says Luo. “They drive up demand for a product feature that often feels remote in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

(or click-and-collect) channels, much like the pandemic has prompted white-collar firms to seriously consider remote work in a more permanent way. All retailers, from omnichannel to single-channel, need to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

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

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65 Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

offices working remotely and field teams continuing to support Sahel Consulting’s five-year Advancing Local Dairy Development in Nigeria program. Sahel Consulting is conducting COVID-related research and... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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