Distance Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

Summing Up The verdict of those responding to the column on the threat of the "disruptive technology" represented by online distance learning for in-class, onsite MBA programs is in. In your... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

hard decisions about returning to the market. Here’s a common prediction: Social distancing forces people to do more buying online and communicating through social media, thus accelerating a permanent, big shift after the crisis to more... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

25 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 25

http://hbr.org/product/producing-prosperity-why-america-needs-a-manufactu/an/10345-HBK-ENG?referral=00304 Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement Author: Michel Anteby... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

technological innovation. “The question is with 50 million public school students in America, how can you provide a more individualized learning experience?” "If you go to the smallest mom-and-pop restaurant, you'll find a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

CEO search," adds Khurana. "For example, a candidate's loyalty and trust would immediately become suspect should his or her employer, investors, or the public learn that discussions were taking place with another company. Using... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

workplace friendships, firms can minimize the psychological costs of homesickness, which increase depending on how far the employee is from home, according to Choudhury’s study, Social Attachment to Place and Psychic Costs of Geographic Mobility: How View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

restrictions—may need to refine their outreach to a pandemic-weary public, especially when it comes to high-risk activities, such as indoor dining. As vaccine hopes and holiday loneliness make distancing harder, consumers will need more... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

performance? What are principled choices its leaders must make if they are serious about building such a firm? What are the means for changing an average company into a HCHP company? What are the key design features of such a firm? In our email Q&A, Beer reflected... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

strain. They had a robust configuration that enabled new purposes, new software deployments, and new coordinated routines across teams. The best can use this as an opportunity to experiment and learn where technology can deliver service... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

that suggests to me is that the members of an alliance were able to learn something from their past experience and contribute that to achieve a better outcome," he says. That lesson could be applied more broadly to other industries,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

paper details the results of nine studies showing that advisors not only get offended when their guidance is disregarded, but they may punish those colleagues by denigrating them, distancing themselves—and in some cases, even severing the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

strikes. “At HBS, we do a great job of teaching students how to build things but we really haven’t had much [to offer] when the stuff really hits the fan. What happens when you’re up against it, between a rock and a hard place?” THAT OVERWHELMING FEELING Those thoughts... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the forecasts, with relative... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Emerging Art of Negotiation

Bazerman and Valley and their colleagues herald the developments in negotiation studies, they also believe that the five emerging areas will enable researchers to comprehend—most importantly—how negotiators themselves define and create the game, both psychologically... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

rescue of 33 Chilean miners. More and more people in nearly every industry now work on teams that vary in duration and have constantly shifting membership. Teaming presents technical and interpersonal challenges: people must get up to speed quickly on new topics and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49819 Sharing Private Information with Customers: Strategic Default and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to... View Details

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

life at the School) and another one less so (having never been at the School). These discussions help me build distance. But only the combination of distance and involvement allows, in my mind, for deep dives into human systems. Q: What... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

One morning last fall, Gautam Mukunda told the MBA students in his first-year Leadership and Organizational Behavior class to crawl under their desks and stay there. He wanted them to experience a sense of how it feels to work in a platinum mine, where the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

Learning By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper theorizes a relationship between legitimacy building and learning for new firms in nascent industries. We conducted a longitudinal study of... View Details