remote work - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

in energy. For example, 100 years ago, half the country worked in agriculture. Now almost no one does. Agriculture has also seen a massive increase in productivity. Some of that is due to mechanization and the use of fossil fuels. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

asserted, "more highly skilled individuals will have to work even harder to make sense of all the material now available to them. And even though e-commerce, IT, and the Internet bring with them great opportunities, the advantages... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

wherein managers work in cross-border teams to resolve a variety of complex, international, management problems. The challenges they encounter are much like those of the "virtual" teams at the heart of effective global... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

from the core reap many benefits, not the least of which is that they deliver returns that satisfy investors while generating the cash they need to invest in more-radical growth and innovation opportunities. You don't want the guys in the core part of your business to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

how are they likely to shape the future for media competitors, advertisers, and their agencies? HBS professor Alvin Silk has long studied such issues, and his latest findings, presented in a new working paper, "Restructuring in the... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

of companies operate, investors can give helpful insight around people and culture. You can ask how to work through team challenges, enhance your company culture, or even how to make remote teams work. If... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

they may fail to notice when the moment is right for action on one path. They may also seem too remote and aloof to their staffs. The best leaders can zoom in to examine problems and then zoom out to look for patterns and causes. They... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

the team was able to draw some conclusions about how the companies performed individually and as a hypothetical portfolio. They were also able to make some observations about how investor behavior contributed to the success of individual IC members. The students View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble enters your... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

prospective operators—and perhaps entrepreneurs in other industries as well—take an educated shot at developing a winning service. He outlined his advice in a July working paper, Mobile Money Services—Design and Development for Financial... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

would call near the frontier of human experience. Ordinarily I'd say near the frontier of business experience, but creative collaboration is very much relevant to business and the field of innovation." Austin is writing a book—the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

on local employers to provide admitted students with mentors and paid work experience starting in grade nine. Co-author of the recent book, Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career, with... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

capture economies of scale. In addition to controlling purchasing, merchandising, and distribution, these managers even control the lighting and temperature at Wal-Mart's 3,500 stores by remote computer. Of course, the spans of control... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

the long run. This last element is critical, for there is not enough charity or taxpayer money to make a sustainable difference; only the profit motive can do that. Earning And Learning Rather than merely applying superficial aid, the WDC, with its varied and... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

OnStar as president and CEO for 14 years. A major subsidiary of General Motors, OnStar provides in-vehicle security, navigation, remote diagnostic, and emergency services to more than 6 million subscribers. Now a senior lecturer at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

agency. The average team lets go 38.5 percent of its roster during the off-season meaning that a quarterback could be working with a completely new cast every year. For teams looking to hire a QB, finding someone who fits the bill is not... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

structure, value, and finance large, "Greenfield" projects. He also has created the Project Finance Portal. Perhaps fittingly, his HBS office is just a few miles down the road from one of the most expensive public works project... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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