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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
physical proximity and virtual connection, and the increasing human tendency to isolate oneself. You write that this moment represents a rare opportunity to reimagine the workplace. What does the landscape look like now, and how strategic... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
growing academic interest in the influence of social networks on entrepreneurial successes and failures, Nanda says. As an example, he cites Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, a 1994 book by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
they’ve found is that being single and working under quarantine alone carries a very different set of stresses than being a member of a working family with young children. For employees experiencing the pangs of social isolation, one... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
belonging. Concrete tips I have heard from interviews include scheduling five to 10 minutes before a formal meeting for casual conversation, asking each other silly questions, establishing virtual team rooms, having biweekly happy hours,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
When millions of Americans started social distancing due to the spread of coronavirus, Caribu co-founder and CEO Maxeme Tuchman (MBA/MPP 2012) didn’t hesitate to lift the paywall on her company’s interactive video-calling platform, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
2008). Li and Bernoff are Forrester Research analysts deeply plugged into technology and social computing. “While you can’t stop it, you can understand it. You can not only live with it; you can thrive in it,” Li and Bernoff write. In... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
business moving along. —Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011) cofounder, Jana Care Social Enterprise Track winner, 2011 Hire the A-Team As a green-behind-the-ears entrepreneur, you place the majority of the value on ideas. As a wizened serial... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
grew up in Cameroon and have known each other most of our lives. We share many of the same lived experiences, including our first business venture in high school renting out venues to organize parties over the holidays. It’s probably not a surprise to those who knew me... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
ASPINALL Illustration by Jack Unruh When you ask people about their great fears in life, virtually everyone talks about cancer,” says Mara G. Aspinall (MBA ’87), past president of Genzyme Genetics, a Westborough, Massachusetts-based... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Online Certificate Programs Offer Unique Insight Into Business
with virtual classmates around the world, and “cold calls” are incorporated into this highly social learning experience. “We took a digital-first approach that leveraged aspects of the case method where it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
of my living room in Carlsbad, California. It is she—the beautiful female figure who ignited my dream so many years ago. I continue to work virtually with organizations that nurture and promote the new arts of Cambodia and the Southeast... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
iPhoto COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the emotional, psychological, and social well-being (as well as the physical health) of people around the world. Risk factors for addiction, mental illness, and “deaths of despair” are... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
with alumni through live virtual programs, such as Crisis Management for Leaders, a five-part webinar series that drew more than 4,700 attendees. “Our faculty are studying all aspects of the pandemic and are working with business,... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
Clubs News Clubs News HBSAB Virtual Case Event Explores Black New Venture Competition As second-year students at HBS, Kimberly Foster (MBA 2020) and Tyler Simpson (MBA 2020) created the inaugural Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
more productive." [New CEO] Greg Dyke virtually eliminated consultants at the BBC to force managers to think for themselves.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter Invensys's leadership team acted on this theory by adding new groups and roles,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
strength. Through a 10-day field experiment involving over 500 high-powered computer programmers, the researchers sought to determine just how employees would respond to working in environments somewhat customized to how they like to work. They divided the participants... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity
Interviews with computer scientists and data experts explore the social and political roots and uses of the data we collect and analyze. Design: At, Into, & Beyond Interviews with designers and researchers shed light on how systems and... View Details