Social Distance - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

means closeness, and while social distancing remains important to mitigating the spread of COVID-19, psychological proximity—interpersonal trust, alignment on values and strategy, shared understanding of key... View Details

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

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

be rapidly replaced with e-mail and videoconferencing, forcing businesses to adopt an entirely new model of work within a matter of days. For companies that could not shift their workforce online, the challenge was to adapt production teams to new View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

surveys said they believed that at least 40 percent of newly remote employees would continue to work remotely at least some of the time, even after social distancing restrictions end. That means, however,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

the Nazis. It also departs from previous literature in assessing the outcomes of the company's strategies after 1945. It examines the challenges and costs faced by the company in recovering the ownership of its brands. While the management of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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 View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

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... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

(For example, 86 percent of the companies in one recent survey said that housing costs were a serious deterrent to attracting businesses and middle-income employees to New York City.) On the lower end of the wage scale, companies are forced to pay bonuses and to bus... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

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 opinion, the trend represents an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

carried out aggressive social distancing measures over the past several months, with many imposing a lockdown that allows only for essential functions, such as buying food or seeking medical care. At the... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

15 Jan 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance

the people and society around them, while at the same time being dead inside. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the pressures and seductions of success and to think and live for themselves. Am I Working Too Hard?... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

referring to massive open online courses pioneered by many universities that put their lectures and course content online. That has provided new access to students on two dimensions, says Kim, distance and time. Distance, because now... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

Social Behavior By: Crockett, Molly J., and Amy Cuddy Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49863 October 2015 Journal of Personality and Social... View Details

10 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

it’s important that they be transparent about their past history and not try to hide anything—which in itself can raise alarm bells. “Everyone does checks and looks at what’s available on social media, so it’s all discoverable anyway,”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

13 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

The Inner Life of Leaders

reflecting on my research and writing, I became absorbed in extensive reading in the social sciences, notably anthropology and above all psychoanalysis. I suppose I could be accused of hero worship when I read intensively and extensively... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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 a third party puts View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

life and gives consumers the product quality they expect. Observing this decision from a distance and out of context, a skeptic might question Gotham Greens’ commitment to its purpose, concluding it had chosen a commercial logic over a... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

the effects of geographic distance and a "hot" IPO market on the formation of networks in the venture capital industry. The fact that the world is connected through spanning ties has huge effects on the spread of all manner of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

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