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  • 28 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

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

reading from the Working Knowledge Archives Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: TONL, LLC View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • Web

Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

overcome. They can help explain an apparent paradox of globalization: Ideas and technologies that can be accessed at a distance cannot serve as a foundation for competitive advantage. Effective management of locational advantages may... View Details
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

and know-it-all, they won’t get anywhere,” Beer says. “People at the top have more decision rights, and that gives them a sense of distance and sometimes a false sense of confidence that they have the answers to everything. But they... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Ships and Sea Transport (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1931), opp. p. 8, map. Distances Between Ports U.S. Navy, Hydrographic Office, Table of Distances Between Ports (Washington: GPO, 1942), opp.... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2006
  • HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

primarily around rewards and punishments. Tight supervision, a controlling type of leadership style characterized by a great deal of social distance between leaders and led." That's what you want to do, to get people to broaden the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
  • 13 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How to Spot a Liar

to lie," Van Swol says. "Using so much of your brain to lie may make it hard to monitor yourself in other areas." Liars used far more third-person pronouns than truth tellers or omitters. "This is a way of distancing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Union High School Jericho, VT NY Charles Sliter Rye Country Day Rye, NY Subjects: Grade 10 Modern World History, Grade 11/12 Economics and Politics RI Grace Small Lincoln High School Lincoln, RI PA Carol Smialek PA Distance Learning... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Moving to the Lower 48 from Alaska for my MS/MBA

like your parents will live forever; as an adult, I’m much more aware that with busy schedules and long distances - time together is precious. To do some math: when I was a kid, my family ate dinner together roughly five nights a week.... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2022
  • Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

own nation. Despite excellent new programs of general education, in the realm of politics and history the distance between what students have to learn in order to graduate, and what they know to be true, grows greater every year. "Over... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

off campus, I know that it’s pretty much impossible to get me back on campus after I’ve left for the day; I’ve heard this is true even if you live within walking distance of campus in Harvard Square. Add to that last point the number of... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

lines of authority. Many employees may be confused by what seem to them conflicting demands and expectations. Also, in virtual teams with members spread far apart, distance diminishes the ability of formal authority to create compliance.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jun 2020
  • Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

reveal our deep devotion to success, we simultaneously lower standards. And when we're setting high standards, we simultaneously make ourselves chilly; we distance ourselves emotionally from people. A lot of people spend their lives going... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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  • 01 May 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

distancing with our colleagues from our work teams.” On the other hand, Melanie Roberts reminds us that, “Charles Handy refers to culture as the soup we all swim about in, and that soup is thin when the ‘here’ is not a location and people... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

Dating at HBS

The business school experience is different for everyone. Some students come to HBS with partners, some bring their families, and some are in long distance relationships—while others are single and interested in exploring the dating scene... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

differences resulted in distance between me and my parents. We had a hard time saying “I love you” to each other, or having conversations that went beyond perfunctory topics. This was especially the case with my dad. So, when I saw that... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

3 Tips on Coming to HBS with a Partner

prefer to be totally immersed in the HBS experience, while others prefer to maintain some distance from it. Many partners need to commute to different parts of the city, so some couples choose to live in a location that is convenient for... View Details
  • Blog

Inside the Learning: Wellness on Campus

is located right on the banks of the Charles River, which provides great trails for walking or running while taking in the local scenery. For round-trip distances along the shoreline, download the Charles River Running Map. You can also... View Details