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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
data, they have distanced themselves from the accounting process itself. Accounting scholarship has failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of... 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... 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... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
Behind the success of every student’s experience in immersive project-based courses—from visas to travel advisories to detailed itineraries—is the Global Experience Office. Kate Mitkevicius has just arrived in Mumbai after an 18-hour journey View Details
- 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
- 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 View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
have died.” Chan, who hails from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 1994, she was named Director of Health for Hong Kong, where... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
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 on the... View Details
- 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
- 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... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
initiative will feature songs that “echo the need for change but offer up the approach of love and unity as means to creating a better world.” DeShay also recently led a successful effort in his hometown of Bastrop, Texas, to remove... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and... 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... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Bjerg’s team suffers total defeat when their glowing blue nexus is shattered. “OK, now I’m going to read out some subs and resubs,” he says, without missing a beat. Each of the nonsensical screen names he reads is that of a viewer who has been watching him play. Bjerg... 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
- 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