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- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
culture. Best practices include: Foster mutual reliance and friendship among coworkers. Much has been written about how to manage remote teams and encourage collegiality. Teams that have only recently gone remote because of the pandemic... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
not talking to a family member because of politics today, which is complete insanity. Unless you like being unhappy, which nobody does, although they often act that way. Friendship is in decline, especially for people in their 20s and... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
prone to missing opportunities to form friendships or hire people by unfairly inferring [that] they are untrustworthy," she says. "There may be completely innocuous reasons someone may wish to keep personal information... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
safe one? Do lower-level team members feel respected? Do people in your organization share or hoard knowledge? Is mutual aid and friendship the norm? Do people funnel feedback, news, and questions upward, or do they pacify and protect... View Details
- 14 Oct 2021
- In Practice
Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return
should come back to office. My ongoing research with the all-remote firm Zapier suggests that while workers can work-from-anywhere, temporarily colocating with peers a few times a year (in the case of Zapier at a retreat), strengthens workplace View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
can come to the defense of one another by providing help in times of crisis. They can take significant satisfaction in developing bonds of partnership and friendship and feel free of concerns about being double-crossed. Relations of this... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
to nurture a friendship via Facebook. Consequently, participants fell into one of four conditions: professional/low-power, professional/high-power, personal/low-power, or personal/high-power. After the online networking activity, everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
organizations we analyzed. Personal feelings played a more important role in forming work relationships—not friendships at work but job-oriented relationships—than is commonly acknowledged. They were even more important than evaluations... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
know they have other choices." Pulling together these considerations, one serial entrepreneur offered this rule of thumb: "If your family comes from a business background and are well-informed about finances and they know to keep business and View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
acquisition costs. These results suggest that eBay's foray into leveraging the social Internet for profit reveals a replicable strategy that benefits both the company and the consumer and can be succinctly summarized as: eBay increases its profitability by allowing... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
brought positive, statistically significant change to every cohort. In another case, the Friendship Public Charter School, a group of four traditional public schools and six public charter schools in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
management's search for a solution led the company to collaborate with a local CSO, the Friendship Home (Casa de la Amistad, hence CdA). In Costa Rica, the television corporation Representaciones Televisivas (REPRETEL) met a similar... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
well as strategists and policy makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50820 in press Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being Long-term Health Implications of Students' Friendship Formation During the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges Between Education and Business
interest groups, for example, since friendships and connections are critically important to ease communication. These interest groups, he said, could work closely with the new HBS Latin America Research Center. Another key ingredient is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
stronger workplace friendships and thus were not as miserable about missing the festivals back home. Choudhury stresses that the finding is not anti-diversity but instead speaks to the importance of and factors that foster social... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
different perspectives, questions, and insights were extremely enriching. After every company visit we would continue back on the bus to discuss and debate what we saw and how we interpreted it. And I think we formed stronger bonds among ourselves, including some new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
exchanges can have a positive effect. If there’s “even an ounce” of perception by the other party that the relationship could or should extend beyond the business context to the friendship level, then precise transactions can hurt the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our lives-from friendship and dating to news and business. What makes social media so different from traditional media? Answering that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
we already know. The functionality of these businesses is clear, but their immense popularity can be perplexing. After all, people managed to get married and maintain friendships for eons before the Web ever existed. So, are these virtual... View Details