Distance - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

the effects of geographic distance and a "hot" IPO market on the formation of networks in the venture capital industry. The fact that the world is connected through spanning ties has huge effects on the spread of all manner of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

Blog

Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs

another, with outdoor seating areas nearby for group work, lunches, and snacks. In classrooms, participants were spaced out according to distancing requirements. Much like in the hybrid classrooms, chairs were tethered together to enforce... View Details

30 Jan 2009
News

What’s It Worth to You?

and values are underpinned by morality, but excessive compensation is imbued with immorality because it implicitly devalues other human beings. A CEO like Max De Pree of Herman Miller understands (as does the military) that a true leader cannot so View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

interactivity across geographic distance than has been possible up until now. We've had some forms of interactive technologies for a long time (e.g., telephone) and many kinds of media too, but real-time interactivity at a View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

hard decisions about returning to the market. Here’s a common prediction: Social distancing forces people to do more buying online and communicating through social media, thus accelerating a permanent, big shift after the crisis to more... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

01 Mar 2004
News

Maasai Village

our dollars and shillings. While the performance aspect was disturbing to some of us, it was heartening to see members of our group connect with the Maasai: showing them how our digital cameras offered instant gratification or how our binoculars brought the View Details

Keywords: Hospitality

01 Dec 2005
News

Dean Jay Light Takes Charge at HBS

people in their 30s. It alternates on-campus modules with return-to-work periods that incorporate distance learning and team exercise components. Plans also are under way for a March research symposium in India coinciding with the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Feb 2016
Blog Post

A Summer Internship in General Management

through cases, learning from industry leaders at conferences and case protagonists in class, and working abroad in FIELD 2. Having some distance from day-to-day work has also granted some much-appreciated time for reflection. This post... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

03 Mar 2014
News

A Life Transformed

world that you have only the spark of your intellect to tell you that there must be something more, the distance seems even greater. Akshay Kumar Parija (AMP 172, 2007) describes growing up in Balidhip in the late 1950s and early 1960s:... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Finance; Transportation

Web

Brand Name Management - The Art of American Advertising

reliability and value. Advertising professionals carefully crafted their copy. Nathaniel Fowler advised in his 1897 publicity manual. “There are some advertising lines, old as they may be, that will always live. . . . As the shortest View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Networked Computers behind IT Payoff

new car may be seductive, he notes, "but let's not forget that a car's real function is to cross distances and bring people to each other. And let's start to consider that the real function of IT might be strikingly similar." View Details

Profile

Aspa Lekka

distance from my handball team in Arta, one of the best in Greece." The other force is more interior, and even more powerful. "I realized I had global ambitions and wanted to compete in the larger world." Aspa ventured out... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Jun 2018
News

Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations

great reminder to fill every minute with 60 seconds’ worth of distance run.” —Dimitri Dadiomov (MBA 2015), Principal Product Manager, LendingHome Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown “Being an ‘Essentialist’... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

wireless technology. Cairncross argues that the story today is not only the diminishing importance of distance but also the mobility and ubiquity of technology. To order HBS Press books, call 800-545-7685 or visit www.hbsp.harvard.edu.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

22 Sep 2016
News

Building a Green Energy Grid

Green-energy entrepreneur Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) founded Houston-based Clean Line Energy in 2009 to tackle a critical challenge. “If you look at the wind-power equation,” he says, “you quickly see that transmitting energy long View Details

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

Summing Up The verdict of those responding to the column on the threat of the "disruptive technology" represented by online distance learning for in-class, onsite MBA programs is in. In your opinion, the trend represents an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Drone Policy | About

observed when UAS on HBS property as recommended by the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) National Model Aircraft. Safety Code: The pilot must follow all FAA regulations for hobby or recreational flying. Aircraft during free flight must maintain a 25 feet View Details

11 Apr 2020
News

Reading Together, Apart

director of Teach for America Miami-Dade before becoming CEO of Caribu, landed among the Inc Female Founders 100 list in 2019; Caribu made it to TIME Magazine’s best inventions of that year. Then, in March 2020, as people across the globe began to practice social View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2010
News

Déjà Vu All Over Again

Opinions vary as to where things stand with the current economic climate: Are we in recovery mode, stalled, or still bottoming out? The distance of history offers a clearer perspective, as evidenced by an exhibit at the Baker Library |... View Details