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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
businesses should set aside time to ask themselves what widely held assumptions—in their lives, organization, or industry—they might benefit from challenging or discarding. “The impact of this simple exercise,” he says, “can be... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
extent to which their work overlapped. If they could combine findings from across their assorted research projects, they could fit together a big-picture view of office-space configurations and how well they support different kinds of... View Details
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
extreme example of distancing from organizational tensions: They simply decide to work on their own. Naomi Rothman—a colleague at New York University—and I are analyzing data on contingent workers and are... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
work remotely during the pandemic, but for a huge swath of the population, working from home was simply not an option. This was especially true for many gig workers and small business owners – it’s tough to work View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
days, Leboyer was part of a convoy driving 16 refugees (and one dog) from the Polish town of Chelm to host families who would receive them in his hometown of Munich. Read his story of the experience. APRIL... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
stopped speaking Spanish and, when my parents spoke in our native tongue, I would admonish them the same way my peers taunted me: “This is America, Mom. Speak English!” Through this and other similar acts, I completely distanced myself... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
disguise their character, their traits are recognizable to others. Character is on display as leaders structure their organizations and go about making decisions. Some prefer to be intimately involved in the decision process. Others prefer to delegate early on and to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
Such praise emanates from Kilar’s experience ingesting the countless business lessons he said he learned from Bezos. “I was so lucky to have him as my manager and I did my best to observe and listen... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the fact that the word “retirement” has outgrown its usefulness? The word itself suggests a literal withdrawal, a distancing from the world that doesn’t suit most graduates of HBS and certainly doesn’t jibe... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
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
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Houston back to her hometown in 2007. “People in Dallas are truly captivated by this venture,” she notes. The facility, to be named the Perot Science Museum, will be located near the city’s sports arena, a few blocks View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
interesting insights." In another line of research, Fearing is working with MIT faculty member Steve Graves, Ph.D. student Jason Acimovic, and Columbia University professor Mark Broadie to develop "Strokes Gained Putting," a new metric for the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
an impact on me, from elementary school through today, all I can say is that I experienced myself differently,” says DeLong. “Teaching, in other words, is a proxy for leadership: It’s about what happens inside of another human being when... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
working together,” the article says. We talked to the researchers about how organizations can help employees cope with this difficult period—including everything from guaranteeing paid sick leave and gathering staff for virtual happy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
particularly within a tenth of a mile, of a house lowers the price at which it is sold. Our preferred estimate of this effect is that a foreclosure at a distance of 0.05 miles lowers the price of a house by about 1%. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
array of subjects in math and science, from photosynthesis to macroeconomics. Fractal Reserve Lending video: What we’re going to talk about in this video are the negatives, the negatives of fractional reserve lending. And the biggest... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
why managers may respond to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results are consistent with the notion that the investor base affects corporate policy choices. Utilizing Team Member Expertise Under Pressure... 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
interaction in the consultative selling process affects EMC's business, and 3) managing a VAR sales model that distances EMC from its customers. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne