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- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
associated with ammonia or chlorofluorocarbons which damage the atmosphere. An ammonia-based system would have put both the nearby residents and marine life in jeopardy if there was ever a system leak. One of the district heating center’s... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
Musacchio, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Dante Roscini, conducted the in-depth interviews, often focusing on key moments of transition and decision-making. The just launched website offers access to video clips,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores, published this month. A bookstore anthropologist Since 2012, Raffaelli has examined how indie bookstores have survived and thrived in the digital era. The research... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
unlikely issue for professors in a business school to take on, but they say they are lucky that HBS independently funds much of the research conducted by its faculty and doctoral students. That’s important,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
Business of Sports course and has conducted research for both professional teams and leagues. In a new HBS working paper, he and Isao Okada—a journalist and former Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard's... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
the School, even as HBS alumni continued to distinguish themselves in the realm of entrepreneurial practice. In 1982, acting on a marketing survey they had conducted as second-year students, David W.... View Details
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
conducting intensive field research in rural Kenya and other parts of the former British Empire, argues that there are clear parallels between academic knowledge and business intelligence. Elkins View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
safety testing by third-party labs in the US in 2015 was about $1.5 billion, compared to the estimated $8.5 billion value of food safety tests conducted by companies in-house. Mérieux NutriSciences is one... View Details
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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing One-Step Photography TAKING THE PRODUCT TO MARKET Impact of the New Medium Medium of Artistic Expression A NOBLE PROTOTYPE View Details
- 07 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events
12twenty Try sharing videos of your office space or the surrounding local area to help students better understand what it might be like to work in your office Consider asking a senior leader in your organization to record a brief message... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
including Augustine Heard & Co. Thomas Hunt & Co. papers include accounts current, bills, account stock and deliveries, invoice books, day books, sales, and letters sent, illustrating the brisk level of business View Details
- 19 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Helping You Help Me: The Role of Diagnostic (In)Congruence in the Helping Process within Organizations
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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
corporations who will identify common pitfalls for foreigners trying to conduct business in Greater China. "Connection" known in the West as networking is an important part of HBS alumni conferences. There... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 03 May 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
were not women themselves—it was in the nature of hierarchies in companies and society. Ely: What you're saying is that the discourse on gender partly motivated you to write the book and to think about things differently. The research on... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
the most seriously wounded. APRIL 25 Winning the War of the Future: Cyber, Disinformation, and AI Monday April 25, 2022, 5:30–6:30pm, Virtual program A discussion on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
seeking to advise the government on policy frameworks where they have greater expertise in ways that balance the protection of national security with business and innovation. Finally, businesses can attempt to create their own View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic Mobility: How Distance from Hometown and Vacation Flexibility Affect Job Performance
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Ohchan Kwon
Using a natural experiment and field interviews, this paper studies how social attachment to place imposes psychic costs on workers who experience geographic mobility. This is especially salient when workers are assigned to locations far from their hometown, which may... View Details
Keywords: Distance From Hometown; Social Attachment To Place; Psychic Costs; Worker Performance; Natural Experiment; Geographic Location; Familiarity; Employees; Performance; India
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Ohchan Kwon. "Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic Mobility: How Distance from Hometown and Vacation Flexibility Affect Job Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-010, August 2018. (Revised January 2020.)