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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
explicitly linked to your mission. But we believe that unless you do it, your mission will be difficult to achieve.' " Spoiler alert: The MCC did commit $46 million to community services, ultimately reducing the average distance from a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
to underinvest in investees with greater accounting distance significantly weakens when accounting distance is reduced either from an investee's IFRS adoption or from IFRS adoption in the investor's country.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
principle, be instantly acquired, clarity may take time to develop and may interact with credibility in complex ways so that relational contracts may often be difficult to build. Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
and floor workers. (In gauging the factors that determine whether a firm adopts any given technology, the researchers considered geographic variables that might affect the cost of acquiring the technology—the firm's distance from the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
something missing. He was actually contending with far deeper concerns than how to gauge distance from the blackboard. He was young, the same age as some of the students he was trying to teach. He didn't believe in a lot of the teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
especially managers, that they cannot expect answers instantaneously.” Examine the geographical distribution of their teams. Companies that distribute workers north and south to minimize time differences might maintain more synchronous communication, even if there are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
evaluates 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 U.S. Agency for... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
effort, assimilation success was larger for those that were culturally closer to native whites (i.e., Western and Northern Europeans). These patterns are consistent with a framework in which changing perceptions of out-group distance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
friends thought we were crazy to start a long-distance relationship after knowing one another for only three weeks. It wasn’t the kind of distance that would require three hour drives to see each other – one of us lived in Boston while... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Today, with products transported cheaply and easily around the globe, we forget, Koehn writes, that “for most of our country’s history, distance was both time and money.” Beginning with oxcarts and stagecoaches on crude roadways, then... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
N. Licht, and Shalom H. Schwartz Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations' responses to cultural distance. Using historically motivated instrumental variables, we observe that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
high-speed Internet access over a short distance of a few hundred feet. A portable computer or PDA equipped with a Wi-Fi card can tap into the hot spot and jump onto the Net for wireless surfing. Although the hot-spot phenomenon is big... View Details
- Blog
HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira
use HBS Online asynchronous content as part of the curriculum for participants before they ever show up on campus. When they arrive at HBS or join a synchronous distance learning experience (for example, through the Live Online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
hotels we own, we’re looking at hospital-grade sanitation programs. We’re looking at things like plexiglass shields between the customer and the check-in desk. We’re considering what social distancing looks like in our restaurants—or do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping the Beat
Vibrations is turning out to be. Flint: I’m curious what this current situation has meant for you and your plans. Obviously social distancing is kind of the nightmare scenario for the music industry more broadly with concerts and... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
life at the School) and another one less so (having never been at the School). These discussions help me build distance. But only the combination of distance and involvement allows, in my mind, for deep dives into human systems. Q: What... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
themselves? They answer, "We're going to have an off-site at the Four Seasons sometime." So the amount of energy that has been expended in "getting different" is a small fraction of the amount they've expended in "getting better." Kotter:... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
companies, and in countries characterized by high individualism and high power distance national cultures. Private Power in Indonesia Author:L.T. Wells, Jr. Publication:Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, forthcoming (December 2007).... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
feedback logically and 'toned down' my comments to show respect, while still providing constructive ideas. Initially, he seemed to take the feedback well. But then I gradually noticed a distancing in our relationship. Eventually, I... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons