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- 01 Jul 2012
- News
Winning friends in new places
- 20 Apr 2014
- Video
The Music of this Place
- 2020
- Working Paper
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
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Ohchan Kwon. "Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic Mobility: How Distance from Hometown and Vacation Flexibility Affect Job Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-010, August 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
- 29 Jan 2015
- News
McDonald's rock & hard place
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
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
- News
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
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
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
- January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Speeding Ahead to a Better Place
By: Elie Ofek and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Ofek, Elie, and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Speeding Ahead to a Better Place." Harvard Business School Case 512-056, January 2012. (Revised March 2012.)
- 15 Feb 2011
- News
Placing your company in historical context
- March 2006
- Supplement
International Place (B): A Perfect Ending?
Goetzmann, William N., and Irina Tarsis. "International Place (B): A Perfect Ending?" Harvard Business School Supplement 206-100, March 2006.
- 19 Jun 2012
- News
Keeping Social Media in Their Place
- 14 Apr 2015
- News
History Has Its Place in Business
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
A Decent Place to Live
Humanity International. What attracted me there was this very simple and radical notion we have that everyone deserves a decent place to live. “If you think about it, home affects where you go to school, your education prospects. It... View Details
- 2019
- Flash Talks
Her Place at the Table in the Trump Era
- Web
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
- 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
- September 4, 2010
- Book Review
People and Places That Innovate
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "People and Places That Innovate." New York Times (September 4, 2010). (Book Review.)
- 28 Mar 2017
- Video
Finding My Place at HBS
- 04 Jan 2021
- Video
Rob Self (MBA 2021): Places on Campus
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
by Carmen Nobel Taking Care of Business: Marlene Krauss, Mary Falvey, Annon Adams, and Vicki Keller, circa 1967. Photo courtesy of Baker Library historical collections, HBS In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the... View Details