Work From Home (WFH) - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

What can companies today take away from the experience of myriad multinationals in the United States? A lot, says HBS professor Geoffrey G. Jones, a specialist in business history and international business. In the following e-mail... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

17 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 17

transaction data from a Japanese bank's home loan application processing line. We find that over the course of a single day, specialization, as compared to variety, is related to improved worker... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

something that already works [e.g. credit and debit cards], something that doesn't complain when it gets wet in the rain, something that doesn't complain when I launder my pants?" Especially, he adds, when those cards give users and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

press. He also urged them not to let the specter of poor governments dissuade them from considering entrepreneurial careers in their home countries. "I see an enormous amount of opportunity for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

They looked at the employment record of the executives’ spouses, noting, for example, whether the spouses also worked or stayed at home with the kids. Key differences don't explain the gap In the end, they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

overall, the companies that were successful had much higher performance. “Putting it into baseball terms, investors who relied on their gut feel had a lower batting average, but more home runs,” Huang says. In the current paper, she... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

a new working paper. “We find that routine customers have higher value to the organization, even after controlling for their level of consumption,” Ascarza says. These customers may also tolerate price increases better and even stay loyal... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

transformed life and work in the second half of the twentieth century. I chronicle the evolution of the new high-tech industries from their beginnings by the first-movers until the end of the twentieth... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

consensual. You should want the job as much as the job wants you, so act in interviews as you would with colleagues to make sure these are people who will help spark that creativity. I added the “within reason” part because, as a PhD student, I spent a lot of time... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. Recession-challenged consumers are buying... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

01 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

Investors riding the wave of technology public offerings have been waiting for a powerhouse debut from Airbnb, which logged its 500 millionth customer booking in March. After all, the home-sharing giant isn’t your typical unicorn. Unlike... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

time: from a logic of bias (women presented as victims of unequal treatment), to a logic of underrepresentation (women presented as stuck at lower levels of organizations), to a logic of work-family conflict (women's career advancement... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

delayed his journey home while he raced through the Ph.D. program in agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota in just two years. His dissertation on the soybean industry reflected the global perspective that became a constant... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

stock valuation President Trump’s executive order in June suspending new work visas barred nearly 200,000 foreign workers from entering the United States and prevents American companies View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Beer, the School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily... View Details