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20 Apr 2014
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Last Place Aversion in Queues

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Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic Mobility: How Distance from Hometown and Vacation Flexibility Affect Job Performance

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Ohchan Kwon

Using a natural experiment and field interviews, this paper studies how social attachment to place imposes psychic costs on workers who experience geographic mobility. This is especially salient when workers are assigned to locations far from their hometown, which may... View Details

Keywords: Distance From Hometown; Social Attachment To Place; Psychic Costs; Worker Performance; Natural Experiment; Geographic Location; Familiarity; Employees; Performance; India

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01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun

domestic product. The lure of faraway places recently led the Bulletin to consider two different sorts of vacation enterprises in which HBS alumni play prominent roles. The first, Turtle Island (at left), is an intimate, one-of-a-kind... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

15 Feb 2011
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Placing Your Company in Historical Context

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

01 Jun 2018
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Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place

way or another, the experience of waiting touches all of us,” says Associate Professor Ryan Buell. His recent working paper, “Last Place Aversion in Queues,” examines the human tendency to be uncomfortable as the last person in... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

27 Apr 2018
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Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed

is a nurse that will go from one place to another. Typically, it is someone that will come in from outside the area, and that is the reason the hospitals cannot really find them because they are not available locally. So we are able to... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

March 2006
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International Place (B): A Perfect Ending?

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19 Jun 2012
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Keeping Social Media in Their Place

14 Apr 2015
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History Has Its Place in Business

January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
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Speeding Ahead to a Better Place

By: Elie Ofek and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

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Antony Gormley PLACE 2015 | About

Antony Gormley PLACE , 2015 Antony Gormley (British, born 1950), PLACE , 2015, cast iron. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube . © Antony Gormley . Antony Gormley (British, born 1950), View Details

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Her Place at the Table in the Trump Era

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

places to open up shop; Alcácer says it's a mistake to allow low costs to completely override other factors. "You should not only think about whether there's a market there or cheaper labor," he says. "You also have to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

on asset location issues. He has a theoretical paper arguing that households that face a risk of becoming unemployed should hold risk-free assets outside of their tax-deferred accounts. This advice goes counter to the tax-efficient strategy of View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen