Distance - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted them to experience a sense of how it feels to work in a platinum mine, where the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

disaster area, and many of its suppliers are as well. This has the potential to affect the supply of notebook computers, even though almost notebooks are assembled in China. Japanese automakers also have significant component production in the affected area, and even... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

let CEOs control which candidates are presented to the board. This is a mistake because CEOs typically won’t choose successors who are quite different and may undo their strategies. The board has more emotional distance from the CEO job... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

very short distances—here, I really mean short distances of 20 meters—can impact technology-adoption decisions, I’ve been examining how the virtual space can substitute for the physical space, by looking at tech adoption at Stack... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

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

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

help him understand themes across the deals that can inform construction of new deals in the future. Topics include unsupervised learning; similarity and proximity; K-means clustering, with measures of Euclidean distance and cosine... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

“blockbuster” green patents, meaning they have developed foundational technologies that other companies frequently cite and build on in subsequent innovations. Cohen says many large energy companies have tried to rebuild their images, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

firms are temporarily closed and 40 percent of the workforce, on average, has been laid off or furloughed since late January. Retail, entertainment, food services, hospitality, and personal services industries have been hit hardest as social View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

energy to population centers across the country by expanding the US electric-transmission grid. “If you look at the wind-power equation, you quickly see that transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2006
News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

hygiene, as well as planning for social distancing and quarantine. Communicating with the public will be essential during a pandemic, not only because antivirals and vaccines will be in short supply, but because there will be tremendous... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

19 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The Road to Impact

programs ranging from early childhood education to suicide prevention to distance learning. The organization is largely funded on a project basis by groups like the National Science Foundation and the US Agency for International... View Details

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

Margolis described a couple quick and simple tools that allow us to get a better handle on the adversity we face: Write it down: Taking a few minutes to write down a problem can save all that time you might have spent commiserating with others. The act of writing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 14

would be a multilateral agreement, past efforts to conclude one suggest that reaching agreement is unlikely in the near future. Building an appellate process, providing for symmetry in access to arbitration, and mid-point guidance might go some View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2022
News

Case Study: Welcome Aboard

stores in the fall of 2021 and through an ecommerce channel in early 2022. The switch has better aligned the company with the wave of interest in sports tech and connected health, Cass notes, and distanced it from the more saturated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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

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

Blog

Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

can have very meaningful interactions over long distances when presented with the right tools for collaboration and discussion. Whether presented online or in person, our programs are designed to facilitate communication among... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

A Life by Design

a move she feared would distance her from the creative pursuits she thrived on. At that moment, serendipity struck. An Avon executive called with a job offer too good to pass up. In her mid-20s, Ross left entrepreneurship and embraced... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

happy hours, and if possible, having a physically distancing picnic. Social connection doesn’t always mean a Zoom call; sometimes even a text message can be enough. Use ‘job crafting’ to let employees modify their roles Jayanth Narayanan,... View Details