Virtual Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

according to Alexa Internet. The business-oriented social network has more than 300 million members, all of whom list their educational and professional achievements on the site in the name of professional networking. Of course, these View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 May 2020
Blog Post

Crisis Leadership with Nikhil Patel: The Critical Importance of Trust

urgent challenges. In March, community trust would prove critical. While taking a deep dive into the potential for tax policy to incentivize housing development, “COVID-19 really hit,” Patel says. Virtually overnight, Patel’s housing... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Social Enterprise

01 Jun 2001
News

Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century

CDs played music, not virtual-reality games. Will I even recognize the place? Related Platforms and Collaborations: Technological Innovation as a Case Method Supplement Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction: Multimedia Cases Focus... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

amount of debt is analyzed and compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not perform well, the debt rule yields welfare gains virtually equal to the optimal rule.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in leadership, but they’ve made great progress... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

sit-at-the-desk jobs where the hours matter, but an increasing number of jobs are run by self-managed work teams, in essence, where employees join virtual teams working from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

there was virtually no debate whatsoever that the federal government should step into the breach.— David A. Moss At the same time, in designing risk management policies, lawmakers always have to be exceedingly careful about a phenomenon... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

virtual roller coaster of the financial markets. The findings are detailed in the paper How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel, co-authored by Marco Di Maggio, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

personally transporting several patients to local COVID wards. “Instead of giving people numbers, we do the work for them,” he told India Today. “If someone needs a nebulizer, a medicine or oxygen, we get it to them.” The article goes on... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS

recommendations? When Dean Srikant Datar asked me back in November 2020 to create a task force, I said I wanted to follow the same model we had used for the virtualization of teaching task force during the pandemic: a real faculty-staff... View Details

Keywords: April White

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

growth, while different across regions, are non-linear and asymmetric. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53596 Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors By: Viceira, Luis M., and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco in 1991 and became CEO in 1995. The company expanded rapidly thereafter, acquiring many firms and growing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

issues that have bombarded Americans before. The chapter underlines how the past cannot be separated from the present. Working on it I was struck by how timely some of the challenges and individuals and opportunities of the past are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

Web

Terms of Use | HBS Online

which you may be enrolled with your own, original work and only your own, original work, and you agree not to engage in any activity that would dishonestly improve your results, or improve or hurt the results of others. In addition,... View Details

15 Dec 2024
News

The Golden Thread

Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology

20 Dec 2024
News

Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024

sponsoring clubs typically invite participants to receptions or panel discussions to share what they learned and how they hope to apply it to their work going forward. “We have found that the scholarship recipients benefit enormously from... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 11

organizations, Kaplan and Haas identify five common mistakes when managers attempt to cut health care costs. The mistakes are triggered, primarily, by working from the line-item expense categories on P&Ls, rather than clinically based... View Details