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  • 30 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes and remote employees—perhaps grudgingly—contemplate returning to offices. Wu’s conclusions were clear: A long commute hurts workers and their employers by hindering creativity and productivity, which stifles... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • May 2022
  • Case

Deborah Quazzo at GSV Ventures

By: William A. Sahlman, Michael D. Smith and Nicole Tempest Keller
As COVID-19 swept across the globe in 2020, the education sector faced unprecedented disruption. Schools and colleges worldwide shut down, forcing over a billion students and teachers to move to online learning. Investor interest in the EdTech space exploded as... View Details
Keywords: Edtech; Technology; Online Learning; COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Information Technology; Venture Capital; Change Management; Strategy; Education Industry; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; California
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  • 17 Jan 2023
  • In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 03 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

management, and why men tend to be promoted to upper management sooner. About 40 percent of managers are women, and their representation shrinks to just 26 percent of the C-suite, according to McKinsey. The paper’s findings also emerge as View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 14 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

administration in the HBS Strategy Unit. “It’s very taxing, to be honest.” Shifting to remote work at the start of the pandemic stripped away whatever was left of the elusive 9-to-5 business day and replaced it with videoconferencing and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

By: Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu

Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Innovation and Invention; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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  • August 2017 (Revised November 2021)
  • Case

Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Christopher Payton
This case provides a platform for discussing mental health and depression in entrepreneurship. Why do entrepreneurs have more mental health issues than other professions? What can an entrepreneur do if they face a situation where their mental well-being is being... View Details
Keywords: Mental Health; Depression; Entrepreneurship; Well-being; Personal Development and Career
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  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

intraorganizational email networks. This is significant, given concerns that remote work might lead to siloed email networks, a pattern that might affect collaboration and innovation. Workers in the hybrid category also produced more... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

ethics, and workforce implications. How LinkedIn Parses Talent, Skills, and Diversity Professional work has hit multiple inflection points—from generative AI to remote work and shifting skills requirements. There are few better vantage... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

Offices may look just as they did in March 2020, but many companies attempting to welcome workers back are finding that the rules of engagement have changed. For many employees, the sweet freedom of remote work has turned into bitterness... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 28 Feb 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

only as an engaged participant. Read the room. Are people reading their email, checked out on a remote phone or video line, or rolling their eyes at each other (visibly or under the table on their cells via text)? Pay attention to what’s... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology
  • Research Summary

Designing Productive Zones of Privacy

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Field Experiments; Design; Organizational Design; Performance
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

between management and leadership in the age of globalization and remote offices. Carmen Nobel: Your book discusses three imperatives for becoming a great leader: managing yourself, managing your network, and managing your team. What are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

stronger for jobs in more digital industries.” The research team also found that weak ties are more important for people engaged in remote work, where they might not hear the latest information in their field around the proverbial water... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 09 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

future actions. It is important not to let them go to waste. Firms should ideally emerge from this crisis sturdier, wiser, and better prepared for future crises and events. [Image: iStock Photo] Other Stories In This Series How Remote... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 01 Sep 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

2021). Your feedback to last month’s column What will Remote Leadership 2.0 look like? The sense of responses to last month’s question about whether organizations with remote leadership can achieve greatness... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work policies in flux, this is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

the right people is far more strategically important than where they perform their job As remote opportunities have become more pervasive, the main focus should be on the support structure you put in place to ensure your workers succeed.”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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