Remote Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

product enabled customers to turn on motors and lights for different items, such as a car built out of the plastic bricks, with a remote control. However, once the entrepreneur added a feature that turns on lights automatically in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

Working PapersCollaborative Architectures for Innovation Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Abstract Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

Like archaeologists digging on a remote hillside, business researchers have unearthed an important segment of the United States economy all but hidden from traditional innovation policy, yet accounting for tens of millions of jobs crucial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

Web

HBS - The year in Review

safety in planning and decision-making while supporting the residential campus. Teaching & Learning Modifications In Summer 2020 work began to design an innovative learning environment—leveraging technology and enhancements to the... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

quickly to produce and air new advertising creative that tapped into the rapidly changing zeitgeist. The result, the Retail Heroes campaign, featured CEO McMillon Zooming in remotely from home to thank the one million Walmart front line... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

04 Dec 2023
Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

Hi all, my name is Rhea! I was lucky enough to work for the National Park Service this summer as a business management intern with the Submerged Resources Center (SRC). The SRC is the NPS national dive program, responsible for... View Details

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

Working PapersOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination (revised) Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Phenomenological assumptions—assumptions about the fundamental qualities of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

Leadership It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding Acknowledging that people are having a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

04 May 2021
Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

when I was three years old. Not wanting me to struggle with them as they built a new life in a foreign land, they left me with my grandparents back home. Even though my mom had an engineering degree and years of work experience under her... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

technologies enable remote work environments, our use of large buildings powered by fossil energy is also facing change, with worker preferences for cleaner and more flexible “digital”-enabled View Details

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

years later another colleague relies on Amazon for delivery of dog food to a remote location in Maine at a price comparable to the local supermarket.) There is no question that Bezos has built a retailing juggernaut, one that is capturing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact between consumers and producers may... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne