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- 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
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
these organizational processes can account for the high clustering and short-path distance between nodes that are characteristic of the endemic small-world network structure. Furthermore, the study shows that the concepts of legitimacy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
egalitarianism to be based on exogenous factors including social fractionalization, religion, and war experience. Controlling for a large set of competing explanations, we find a robust influence of egalitarianism distance on cross-border... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
a chain. Our results are robust to alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment, investors are necessarily more focused... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
change can level the playing field. Social distancing has disrupted the traditional connection-based networks of venture capital. No one is going out for drinks anymore and there’s less small talk over Zoom. In the online environment,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
decisions from descriptions were obtained with a stochastic variant of prospect theory assuming that the sensitivity to the weighted value decreases with the distance between the cumulative payoff functions. The best predictions of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
published Joseph Rock’s account of Minya Konka, most accurately pronounced “gungka” or “goong-ga.” The widely traveled botanist had first spied the triangular massif in 1928 through field glasses from a distance of more than 100 miles,... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
R&D laboratories (at varying degrees of distance from three major life sciences hotspots-Massachusetts, San Diego County, and the San Francisco Bay Area). Our findings indicate that geographic proximity is a significant predictor of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
She floats an occasional observation: “I think the answer for a lot of these questions is going to be in how we do things as much as what.” But largely she creates space for the directors to share their perspectives, gently challenging them: What’s the View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
revenues from Japanese companies and fans: pitcher or position player, player's popularity, non-stop flights from Japan, distance from Japan, non-sport tourist attractions in a city, size of Japanese community in the city, and player's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
or her math homework and still make it to that important work deadline that I have when I’m working at home and my child is distance learning. And that took us away from thinking about some of the bigger picture challenges that a lot of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
distance from the Boston campus. They say the workplace as we used to know it, quite frankly, is dead. Not only is remote work considered table stakes to employees, but the pandemic has challenged conventional thinking about work in other... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 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
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
that is, overcoming the emotional distance between its brands and local consumers. By 1997, Danone Mexico had its first run-in with this problem when marketing research revealed that the general public held the company in high regard, but... View Details