Distance - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

paper details the results of nine studies showing that advisors not only get offended when their guidance is disregarded, but they may punish those colleagues by denigrating them, distancing themselves—and in some cases, even severing the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

CEO search," adds Khurana. "For example, a candidate's loyalty and trust would immediately become suspect should his or her employer, investors, or the public learn that discussions were taking place with another company. Using a third party puts View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

22 Sep 2016
News

Building a Green Energy Grid

Green-energy entrepreneur Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) founded Houston-based Clean Line Energy in 2009 to tackle a critical challenge. “If you look at the wind-power equation,” he says, “you quickly see that transmitting energy long View Details

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Commencement 2015 Address | About

reached your seats this afternoon, and I hope you were able to capture some great memories. But even though I have no formal training in the arts, I am sure that the best photography happens at a distance longer than the length of your... View Details

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

farmers. The company is operating at reduced capacity to ensure social distancing in its factory and contributing to food drives in several Nigerian states. “AACE also is leading a drive to provide its Soyamaize product, which is a... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

explicit connections between historic wrongs and current social problems has gained credence over the last couple of decades. But he distances his work from the more limited notion of reparations as commonly understood in the public arena... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

09 Apr 2020
News

“Raise the Line”

the number of COVID-19 cases to ensure hospitals are not overwhelmed. That’s why we’re all social distancing and washing our hands. But we also need to “raise the line,” meaning increase healthcare capacity. We need more ventilator and... View Details

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

each distribution over the feasible subsets. Our rules can be interpreted as distance minimization-selecting the order closest to the population's preferences, using a metric on the orders that reflects the distribution over the possible... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

restrictions—may need to refine their outreach to a pandemic-weary public, especially when it comes to high-risk activities, such as indoor dining. As vaccine hopes and holiday loneliness make distancing harder, consumers will need more... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

communications intensive and relationship dependent that they did not function well when operating units were separated by substantial time and distance barriers. In addition, language and cultural barriers made it difficult to integrate... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

26 Oct 2020
News

A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

with social distancing and other safety protocols in place. Hung says that will mean having smaller gatherings, spaced seating, and symphonic programs that allow musicians proper spacing, and the elimination of choral performances in the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

reality, offering tested methods for bridging cultural differences, leading virtually, and preparing for the next global crisis, whatever shape it may take. Neeley also highlights the crucial importance of launch (and relaunch) sessions to successful remote work. View Details

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

distance where he could perform surgery. The consequences can be equally severe in technology companies: for instance, in 2001 Doron Kempel was forced to resign as the CEO of SANgate Systems after just three months when a judge determined... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2020
News

Reading Together, Apart

director of Teach for America Miami-Dade before becoming CEO of Caribu, landed among the Inc Female Founders 100 list in 2019; Caribu made it to TIME Magazine’s best inventions of that year. Then, in March 2020, as people across the globe began to practice social View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

was no more certain than a crystal ball. Moreover, despite efforts of forecasters to distance themselves from astrologers and popular conjurers, the emergence of scientific forecasting went hand in hand with rising popular interest in all... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

01 Mar 2010
News

Déjà Vu All Over Again

Opinions vary as to where things stand with the current economic climate: Are we in recovery mode, stalled, or still bottoming out? The distance of history offers a clearer perspective, as evidenced by an exhibit at the Baker Library |... View Details

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

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

century depended on the cultural distance between immigrants and natives. To proxy for cultural distance, I used linguistic distance from English and religion, noting that anti-Catholicism was widespread in... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

are very different consumers from the more affluent. What kind of business models are needed? A: There are three major challenges. First, there is the issue of cultural distance between corporate decision makers and the poor. Let's face... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

Mainstream churches, meanwhile, were not benefiting from the distanced relationship, and indeed were ceding ground to secular spirituality and its offshoots from New Age crystals to personal empowerment. How to bridge the Sunday-Monday... View Details