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- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
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
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
minimize temporal distance—that is, largely on a North-South axis,” the paper says. Read the paper: The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time. Jasmina... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
Friedman, managers who believe the hype of a flat world do so at their own risk, says HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat. National borders still matter a lot for business strategists. While identifying similarities from one place to the next... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
a natural member of this group. Tony's story strongly suggests that the most fundamental inner resource of leaders is a peculiar, negative skill. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the... View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
knowledge production can be conducted in an emerging economy, at a distance from buyers of the knowledge. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708483 Sony... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2015, South Korea... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
something missing. He was actually contending with far deeper concerns than how to gauge distance from the blackboard. He was young, the same age as some of the students he was trying to teach. He didn't... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
Remote work is giving companies new opportunities to tap additional markets and talent pools. However, a global workforce also brings a challenge: As some employees are getting up in the morning, others are winding down their workday. “There are many benefits to the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
important was a hometown advantage. Companies based closer to funders tended to do better overall; those that were farther away from a shared investor were 56 percent less likely to introduce a new product.... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
back in compensation to work for a highly reputable company that might counter the black mark from the tarnished firm. “It helps to create a persuasive story that competes with the scandal story,” Groysberg says. Working for a firm that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
decisions from descriptions were obtained with a stochastic variant of prospect theory assuming that the sensitivity to the weighted value decreases with the distance between the cumulative payoff functions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
Internet pioneers looked at everything from Wi-Fi "hot spots" to the future of broadband at a recent telecommunications conference at Harvard Business School. The issues were debated at the Bandwidth Explosion colloquium held... View Details
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
Economic Research, Gompers teamed with Will Gornall of the University of British Columbia, Steven N. Kaplan of the University of Chicago, and Stanford University’s Ilya A. Strebulaev to survey more than 1,000 venture capitalists at 900 firms View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
R&D laboratories (at varying degrees of distance from three major life sciences hotspots-Massachusetts, San Diego County, and the San Francisco Bay Area). Our findings indicate that geographic proximity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
well) to the thoughtful adoption of social media technology. And they offer guidance on how to balance the benefits of open-ended talk with the realities of strategic execution. Drawing on the experience of leaders at diverse companies View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
that don't," says Lee Fleming, a professor at Harvard Business School who coauthored the paper with Marx, along with INSEAD professor Jasjit Singh (PhDBE '04). To test their brain drain theory, the researchers analyzed the US patent record View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
worse than the financial crisis,” says Mills, who led the United States Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. “Many small businesses will not survive more than a month.” Small businesses have been scaling down and temporarily... View Details