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- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
engage employees. Workplace changes prompted by the pandemic have made employees more adaptable and flexible than before; however, persistent change without time to absorb and process causes fatigue. Leaders who are numb to fatigue make... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
demonstrated that Unilever could make a hostile acquisition, while the acquisition of Chesebrough-Pond's two years later showed that Unilever could move quickly and decisively if it wished. Effective procedures were put in place to absorb acquired firms, which were... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
systems of adherence. Case 1: Learn and deploy new information Geographic diversification is often seen by managers as a useful way to tap into new sources of growth. In case of a pandemic, a specific form of View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
workplace friendships, firms can minimize the psychological costs of homesickness, which increase depending on how far the employee is from home, according to Choudhury’s study, Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
School, studies how location and geographic mobility affect worker productivity and innovation. His research also examines how companies benefit by allowing employees to work remotely. Choudhury answered questions from participants in a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
overlapping geographic layers—from local to global—and the idea is to focus not on one layer but on many. Doing so fosters flexibility by helping companies adapt ideas about regional strategies to different... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
employees will protest or leave if they tried to do that. And a lot of companies were able to hire from a broad geographic scope that they wouldn’t have otherwise done outside of the pandemic. What do you even do about people who are in... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
corruption geographic segments. In contrast, there is no relation between residual anticorruption ratings, sales growth, and changes in profitability in low corruption geographic segments. The net effect on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
the world that will exist at that time. The navy is clear eyed about the challenges climate change poses. It knows that the effects of a warmer world will expand the geographic scope of its mission and increase demand for its military and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
has chosen to examine make them difficult to manage and generate conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. Indeed, he points out that managers often forgo large, risky projects—even those that are expected to add shareholder value. An inherent lack of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
effect of efficiency wages on employee behavior and social norms. Working PapersSpatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain Authors:Juan Alcácer and Mercedes Delgado Abstract We explore the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
systems. We then develop a simple model of how these markets enable entry by small or flexible suppliers and the resulting impact on existing firms. Finally, we consider the regulation of peer-to-peer markets and the economic arguments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
research suggests that the random coefficients logit is a highly flexible model that overcomes the problems of the homogeneous logit by allowing for differences in tastes across individuals. The purpose of this paper is to show that this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
approaches on the subject in terms of longitudinal and geographical scope. We suggest that the straightforward association of the general environmental settings of market immaturities and institutional voids with the existence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
disentangle two distinct consequences of the geographic co-location of competitors in the same industry. Geographic co-location increases the ease with which "communities of practice" can form, and... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
professional relationships may "bridge" the asymmetric information. This bridge may be particularly strong if both firms were financed by the same venture capital firm. Third, geographic proximity may also reduce the asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
regular business hours. In fact, the average communication share outside of regular hours for men was nearly 14 percent, versus nearly 9 percent for women. “Prior literature shows that women have the least flexible schedules because they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
select components from the PLC and tailor them to the needs and behaviors of individuals and teams. The PLC is flexible and immediately accessible, and it enables employees to pick up skills in the context in which they must be used. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this framework to study the horizon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
inclusion goals and seek to make an impact beyond the balance sheet. He encourages investors to ask: “How do we make startups more accessible, both geographically and among different groups? How do we think about creating a playing field... View Details