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

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

salary and more concerned about their work contract: "What are you expecting from me?" We had a wonderful session on working in the professional services arena.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

March–April 2019
Article

A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health's Journey from India to the Cayman Islands

By: Budhaditya Gupta and Tarun Khanna

Internationalizing firms often find developing host-country resources challenging as they simultaneously attempt to replicate the resources that worked well in their home country and adapt them to fit the context of the host country. On the basis of a longitudinal... View Details

Keywords: Recombination; Internationalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; India; Cayman Islands

Citation

Find at Harvard

09 Jun 2020
News

Coronavirus Could Finally Fix Some of Our Most Toxic Work Habits

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

of life in the home--should be viewed as a miserable chore. I look forward to coming home from work and spending time mindfully cooking fresh foods and ... yes, even mindfully... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2021
News

Half of New Orleans City Hall employees to work remote in move to Municipal Auditorium

29 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

student Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson, executive professor of management at Northeastern University. While digital technology has made workers more efficient and accessible than ever before, many companies have been slow to let employees View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Sep 2015
News

Working on the Local Level

Aaron Chadbourne (JD/MBA 2010) accepted an offer from Maine’s governor to put his MBA to work tackling some of his home state’s toughest issues—from high taxes and an aging... View Details

09 Nov 2023
News

From the Brink

together people with different expertise, you have different perspectives on a particular problem.” For the core of the team, Weiss turned to Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010). Chepenik had worked at Blackstone in the investment giant’s... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

born, I read up on child development and learned the special importance of the first several years. From that point on, I gave extra priority to spending quality time with our children whenever I was home... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

All in a Day's Work

politicians, residents, financial institutions, and community organizations — works together. Despite the frigid weather, dozens of people have turned out to inspect the new units and listen to a parade of representatives View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate

01 Sep 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Working World

make the product a reality. That made an impression—that an immigrant living in the United States was turning back to his home country to help realize the products of his invention. So my first work in this... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

January 2009
Article

From Regional Star to Global Leader

By: Nitin Nohria

Yang Jianguo was recently promoted from country manager for China to global head of product development at a staid French perfume maker. He was chosen for his technical smarts and his knowledge of emerging markets—a critical avenue for growth, given that sales in the... View Details

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership Development; Management Teams; Emerging Markets; Product Development; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; China; Paris

Citation

Find at Harvard

Purchase

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

The following excerpt is taken from the "Lessons of Restructuring" section of Gilson's introduction to Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring. Although the case studies in this book span a wide range of companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

23 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

than a Blockbuster store, stocking a limited number of popular movies? Intrigued with these questions, HBS assistant professor Anita Elberse and associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee analyzed the distribution of revenues in the U.S. View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

you to HBS. In 2018, I started reflecting on the big existential question of "what is my calling?" It was really intimidating to think about – my main criteria were to work on problems that mattered to me, that I could have fun doing,... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

5 Tips To Successfully Make A Hybrid Setup Work For You And Your Boss

14 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

at work and at home: For a while, many mothers and fathers brought their jobs home because they had no choice. First, the good news: While much has been written about how the pandemic was enormously taxing... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

Web

Working Knowledge | Harvard Business School

Blanding on February 6, 2025 . New to Working Knowledge? Discover powerful insights from early-stage faculty research to equip your leadership and innovation. More About Us Strategy and Innovation More like... View Details

Web

William R. Kerr | Working Knowledge

Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill served as Unit Head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit View Details

16 Jan 2019
News

Publications