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

2010
Working Paper

Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

By: Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Gino

Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Working Conditions; Service Delivery; Performance Productivity; Financial Services Industry; Japan

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06 Jul 2023
News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

MLB, where he's worked since he graduated from HBS in 2008. And he's helped lead some of the transformational innovations the sport has undergone in the last decade, both on the field and off. In this... View Details

20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2015
News

Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

government officials, and academics around topics of relevance to South Asia. “Borrowing from what Dean Nitin Nohria has said, the problems of the world are so interconnected and so large that the solutions can no longer be the... View Details

07 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

hold practical implications for managers struggling with low engagement and inefficiency amid a lack of face time and continued pandemic stress. “One of the big insights from our work has been that, just... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

for affordable homes and the loans to finance them significantly exceed supply, and the availability of basic services is far from a given. During all of these visits, Camille and Vibha pepper our translator... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Seven Lessons from the Section Experience

Michael Bervell (MBA 2024) is from Snohomish, Washington and graduated from Harvard with a BA in Philosophy and the University of Washington with a MA in communications. Prior to HBS, Michael View Details

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

the history of work where the nature of work as we’ve known it has been disrupted, whether we embrace it or not,” says Neeley, author of Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

15 May 2020
Blog Post

Words from an HBS Partner: Reflections on the Partner Experience

myself. At HBS I’ve been able to travel, develop great friendships with people from all over the world, work on my career, further develop my confidence and learn so much more about myself. Here are a few... View Details

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

the lives of most White people much worse. Take single-family zoning. Legislating that only single-family homes of a certain size can be built together was a radical experiment that initially aimed to separate Black View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

2009
Working Paper

Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web

By: Marco Iansiti

Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent nature of innovation in information technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Information Technology; Internet and the Web

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10 Jan 2013
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From Wall Street to Visual Art

the "everyperson" profile have been featured in several major museum exhibitions and more than a dozen public art installations around the world over the last decade. From home bases in Tel Aviv and Los... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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Working with Spaces, Files & Folders - Research Computing Services

We wish to bring to your attention a number of items that will help you work efficiently and prevent you from having future problems: Remember that home folders are not... View Details

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

people’s lives.” — GE Forsan Hussein The Business of Peace Hussein In the summer of 1998, while working as a fellow with an Israeli human-rights organization, Brandeis student Forsan Hussein interviewed a young Palestinian whose West Bank... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

27 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

earthquake killed thousands of area residents. "He talked about dozens of families walking from farmer to farmer, asking to find chrysanthemum flowers used for funerals," student Kazumasa Mukae (HBS MBA '14) recalls. "His... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

and how they influence the standards of the countries in which they operate as they seek global consistency. We are following a small number of companies with excellent reputations to locations both similar and different from their View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS

Leader. They invited me to work with them to put together a couple of film-based cases. Working with them and teaching the cases in a classroom was both challenging and rewarding and convinced me it was... View Details

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

very much that Jobs wants to go in that direction, but it certainly is a possibility that they could entertain. Q: If we look at those three alternatives, it seems like from Apple's own initiatives it's heading down path number one: the... View Details