remote - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

the blink of an eye. Wireless is another enabling technology, allowing the computer and other digital devices to access the Internet and other networks from an ever-increasing number of remote locations. In a business with strong network... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

service their entire IT operation in a proprietary environment in a single remote location. Freed from the burdens of day-to-day IT management," he said, "companies can devote more of their time to the strategic thinking that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

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

conducted in such geographically diverse settings? A: The best answer to that is that the medium is the message. Tremendous learning occurs just from being immersed suddenly in an entirely different world. Remote settings also enable us... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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

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

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

a mouse click or a remote control device. And the third, contractual flexibility, describes the nature of the demands the various media place on advertisers. The contractual requirements associated with network television advertising with... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

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

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

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

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

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

didn’t know you needed to). This can be especially important when you are working remotely and can’t see your manager dropping by someone’s desk – and so you can’t tell who should or should not be involved in a certain decision. KNOW... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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

11 Oct 2016
First Look

October 11, 2016

startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and 45 employees, all of whom worked remotely from home. Customer acquisition was becoming more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

chicks to these remote villagers and did so in a way that enabled everyone to profit in concrete financial terms, from Keggfarms itself to the rural villagers. Almost a million households are today affected by Keggfarms, and the numbers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

categories. This can lead to a certain amount of head-to-head competition between the two neighboring shopping centers; but, for the most part, their overall business increases as they siphon away customers from more remote shopping... 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

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