Distance - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53928 Homesick or Home Run? Distance from Hometown and Employee Performance: A Natural Experiment from India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Ohchan Kwon Abstract—Companies often assign... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

firms relative to firms with proximate divisions. The effects are strongest in dispersed firms with relatively less pay disclosure prior to 1992, a subsample for which the ruling had a relatively larger impact. Finally, based on analysis of manager pairs within a firm,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2006
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The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

the effects of geographic distance and a "hot" IPO market on the formation of networks in the venture capital industry. The fact that the world is connected through spanning ties has huge effects on the spread of all manner of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

16 Feb 2021
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To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

“blockbuster” green patents, meaning they have developed foundational technologies that other companies frequently cite and build on in subsequent innovations. Cohen says many large energy companies have tried to rebuild their images, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

13 Apr 2020
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Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services industries have been hit hardest as social View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

12 Sep 2005
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The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

interactivity across geographic distance than has been possible up until now. We've had some forms of interactive technologies for a long time (e.g., telephone) and many kinds of media too, but real-time interactivity at a View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

03 Jun 2020
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Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

As we start to think about returning to work, shopping, and recreation, there is much talk about transformed workplaces and innovative social distancing designs. But how will companies, workers, and customers have confidence that these... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

31 Aug 2011
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Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

interesting insights." In another line of research, Fearing is working with MIT faculty member Steve Graves, Ph.D. student Jason Acimovic, and Columbia University professor Mark Broadie to develop "Strokes Gained Putting," a new metric for the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

to increasing distance between the solver's field of technical expertise and the focal field of the problem. Female solvers—known to be in the "outer circle" of the scientific establishment—performed significantly better than... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2008
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The Inner Life of Leaders

disguise their character, their traits are recognizable to others. Character is on display as leaders structure their organizations and go about making decisions. Some prefer to be intimately involved in the decision process. Others prefer to delegate early on and to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2005
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The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

the Japanese economy get off the ground, and the company's business there was dwarfed by its domestic business. But as Toyota's U.S. sales grew, political pressures increased the political and administrative distance between the two... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

10 Oct 2005
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Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

extreme example of distancing from organizational tensions: They simply decide to work on their own. Naomi Rothman—a colleague at New York University—and I are analyzing data on contingent workers and are trying to understand their... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

09 Jul 2024
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Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

trust—and having a shared understanding of how to make these decisions—is really critical. Alumni Bulletin: What other research are you doing to better understand virtual and physical spaces? Roche: Besides analyzing how very short distances—here, I really mean short... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Jerry R. Green and Lawrence Kotlikoff Publication: In Institutional Foundations of Public Finance, edited by Alan J. Auerbach and Daniel Shaviro. Harvard University Press, 2009 Abstract A century ago, everyone thought time and distance... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 May 2020
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Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

18 Sep 2013
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Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

teams will know where to halt their golf cart-size plows. In the fall, leaves are meticulously assembled in piles at a distance from the main paths and then trucked out of sight. All the paths linking the periphery of the campus to its... View Details

Keywords: Education

17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

interaction in the consultative selling process affects EMC's business, and 3) managing a VAR sales model that distances EMC from its customers. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511124-PDF-ENG Shar Matin (A) David... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2007
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Learning from Failed Political Leadership

faulty decision making. The only evident remedy is in-depth analysis by knowledgeable people after the fact, looking a good distance ahead. This is what we attempted to do with this book. We have also filmed a discussion with experts that... View Details