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17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

comes from synchronous interactions that you cannot get otherwise,” Sadun says, “and your decision-making depends on these inputs.” You Might Also Like: What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

the pandemic’s repercussions through this project as well as ongoing efforts with HBS professors Zoe B. Cullen and Christopher T. Stanton that study everything from small business aid to the future of remote work. The team is motivated to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

remote surveillance of the performance of these products. Predictive analysis applied to humans is now one of the hottest concepts to come along. It is being made possible by a system of customer loyalty programs, big data, and cloud... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

Schedule each day. Many parents are caring for their children and guiding their remote learning while trying to do their own jobs—and feeling like they’re failing on all fronts. Eventually, thoughts about unfinished work tasks encroach on... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

street exists in the middle of the desert,” Wu says. “There’s nothing remotely natural about it—it’s clearly a man-made invention.” Two principles for building the metaverse To get the massive virtual world off the ground, Wu and Clough... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

normal. Robert S. Huckman (@robert_huckman) is the Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the faculty chair of the HBS Health Care Initiative. Virtual medicine will become a standard option Peter Barrett: View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) and other providers to build their telepsychiatry programs and meet the needs of under-served populations. “Our support allows patients to see providers remotely over video conferences,” he... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

03 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains

for remote communication. Suggest alternate times to connect Offer suggestions on how and when team members should book time with you outside of office hours. For example, you could say: “Office hours are a great way to bounce ideas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

managing demand - using modern sensors and valves, remote measurement, big data optimization algorithms, mobile apps, and other innovations - is a more powerful way to benefit citizens and businesses than just pumping more stuff through... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

launched a mobile money service, eZ Pay, only 13,000 customers signed up. The CBSL later allowed customers to register without having a bank account and also allowed for remote customer registration through a mobile phone. With these... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

some remote authorities (the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, the European Commission's DG IV) who claim to be patrolling the area, but everyone knows that their guns are not loaded. For cyberspace, it seems, is a lawless realm, a... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

offered several remote monitoring systems for hospitals, including the eICU, which it obtained through the 1998 acquisition of Visicu. In the eICU model, patients in hospital ICUs were monitored using bedside devices, which transmitted... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

less.” LEADING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY More Stories in This Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

remote monitoring service for cardiac device patients, which hit the market well before 2010 (the FDA approved it in January 2002). It was only by thinking in terms of "reinvention," says George, that this could have been... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

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 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

seekers and employers. As remote work surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment hovered below 4 percent, and many employers struggled to fill openings. “Harley has to build a team, but doesn’t have all the skills necessary to do... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

28 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

interactions to remote medical scribes, thus freeing doctors from the burden of having to manually input information into an electronic medical record (EMR) and giving them additional time to focus on patients. Shakil and Tran had grown... View Details