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- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
how do we get this to work, so it’s credible and widely accepted?” You Might Also Like: Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change What Happens When Business Owners... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
One, the university was the only procurer of whole body donations in the state, which negated the risk that the researchers might miss registrants in the selected geography and time frame. Two, Hawaii's remote location helped deter the... View Details
- 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
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
remotely from their homes or at a reading center. As new scans come in, they are randomly assigned to the radiologists, who must be licensed in the state and credentialed at the hospital where the scan was performed. The random assignment... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
as well as handsets) suffer from a "Galapagos effect": like the unique fauna of these remote islands they are only found in the Japanese archipelago. Similarly, while Japanese anime is renowned worldwide for its creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
brutal, understanding of what needs to change if the company is to succeed in the competitive environment that lies ahead. The inside-outsider knows that if his or her vision of the way the world is headed is remotely right, then real... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
commitments. Second, depletion of existing natural resources means firms will have to develop resources in increasingly remote locations subject to higher levels of sovereign risk such as Chad and Azerbaijan. And finally, the combination... View Details
- 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
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
continues. Similar to the NFL, this hiring has to take place virtually. And the shortcomings of virtual hiring in the business world are not dissimilar—technology fails, the impersonal nature of remote interactions, and the challenges... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
and find that employees hired from low employment districts outperform their non-remote counterparts in standardized verbal and logical tests at the recruitment stage. To explain why the firm might be more likely to select high ability individuals from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
political processes from which they were once excluded. Another asset big corporations enjoy is the power to protect programs once they are put in place, and the strength to thwart the status quo. With this power comes impressive reach as well, access to even the most... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
city of Dallas. This last spring, 1,000 students in Dallas graduated with a high school diploma and an associate’s degree. The employer hiring the largest number of students in Texas and in Dallas is Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters had 28 students from one school who... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
case:http://hbr.org/search/612076-PDF-ENG Microsoft IT India Willy Shih, Margaret Pierson, Alexander Down, Will Jurist, Diego Medicina, and Helen WangHarvard Business School Case 612-078 Raj Biyani faced tough challenges managing Microsoft IT India: leading a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
could fit in two 40-foot intermodal shipping containers. The UPower reactor was designed to serve the need for "off-grid" electric power. These off-grid customers were in remote locations such as mining operations, military... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne