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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
As much as some employees will crave the return of in-person social connections in the office, they have become accustomed to the flexibility that comes with virtual work—from less time to commute to more time with family and pets. I... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. What does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
carbon dioxide sequestering for power generation fits all objectives, except it is not doable on the scale needed. Stobaugh’s book supports the inclusion of “externalities” in energy pricing, the implication being that, if included, this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Above: photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images On a late summer day in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a large carpeted room with a colorful cloth tacked over a dropped fiberboard ceiling, Bob Vaccaro (MBA 1970), short white hair, eyes crinkled... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
message: Welcome. You should be proud to work here. Please fit in accordingly. But research suggests that employee orientation ought to be less about the company and more about the employee. In their paper "Breaking Them In or... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Nov 2019
- News
Seismic Shift
as a formal advisor), and board members Tyson Clark (MBA 2009), general partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), Guy Primus (MBA 2000), CEO and cofounder of the Virtual Reality Company, and Reggie Van Lee (MBA 1984), a retired executive... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
transportation is virtually not usable for anyone in the middle class or above. And so those are very challenging parts of being in Lagos, but I keep saying that we have to straddle between the future we envision and the world we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
guest room that summer. But as DART progressed, the vision changed. For the first two years, it was a virtual company, pursuing a few deals here and there. But by summer 2012, things still weren't moving... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
virtually all the gains to be had go to those that create an ownership culture, by building in participative management and helping employees learn to think and act like owners. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
HBS classroom experience and use HBS Online’s platform, giving the participants flexibility to fit the weekly coursework into their schedules. Those who take all four courses will earn a certificate of completion from HBS/HGSE. “We have... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
work and how the parts fit together. We deal with much more complicated games than the game theory usually deals with." In short, Roth has determined that successful marketplaces require three key elements. "They must be thick,... View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
with a time-shift in television viewing as digital video recorders (DVR) became commonplace. With broadband they must now also contend with a place-shift. The family no longer sits in the living room together with all eyes focused on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the fringes? Robert Huckman: What... View Details
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
addressing customer needs, and themselves. There is no room under channel stewardship for non-value-adding partners; an effective steward must weed them out. By effectively meeting current needs and anticipating new ones, a channel... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry's release of an unprecedented total of twenty thousand new titles. Is there trouble brewing for the business with a beat, a virtually recession-free industry for the past fifty years? To shed some light on the situation, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
"When it comes to carbon emissions, nearly anything is better than a traditional coal-fired power plant," he says. Lassiter argues that the world has allowed nuclear to become virtually an "orphaned technology," despite its potential to... View Details
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
components of expected inflation, and the covariance between nominal variables and the real economy. The last of these state variables enables the model to fit the changing covariance of bond and stock returns. Log nominal bond yields and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
In 2010, Maria Gotsch (MBA 1989) called a meeting with the chief information and technology officers at five of the largest banks headquartered in Manhattan. The session would last for three hours, but as Gotsch recalls, the executives in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
continues. “I remember sitting in Walter Shorenstein’s conference room on the 49th floor of the Bank of America building in San Francisco, with everyone looking around the table. The obvious person to run the team was Peter Magowan,... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
obvious place is your own customer base. If you find them there, you should immediately curtail investment in improvements in overserved dimensions because customers will not value them. More critically, you need to consider disrupting yourself because there is now... View Details