Proximity - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Nov 2014
News

Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement

The rent is relatively cheap ($200/month per person) compared to start-up sites in Kendall Square and South Boston’s Innovation District, its dedicated desks offer more permanence than most co-working spaces, and the access to the i-lab’s resources and View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

in China, for example— and take advantage of it being closer to the customer.” It’s part of Eckert’s larger vision for the factory of the future that not only has a proximity advantage, but also is much nimbler—no longer a string of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

04 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

really having proximity to wealth, and not really being able to tap into the thinking of high-net-worth investors and how they live their lives and what their values are,” Ramirez shared. “Having that View Details

05 Oct 2016
News

Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab

sciences co-working communities. The proximity of the three innovation labs together provides access to the resources, programming and community necessary to help startups succeed. “We believe innovation in the life sciences is critically... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

going on. In each class, we ask students to prepare by understanding what is happening and why. What are the proximate and root causes of why this company is facing the situations articulated in the case? What signals are appearing that... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Groundwork

Proposed Buildings Along Western Avenue ETA Unknown After HBS parking transitions to below-grade, as many as three proposed Western Avenue building sites could offer space for activities that leverage the School’s new proximity to the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

15 Nov 2016
News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

highlighted existing partnerships, and explored ways to foster innovation even before two-thirds of SEAS moves to its new campus adjacent to HBS and the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2020. More than 100 HBS and SEAS faculty, doctoral students, and staff attended the... View Details

02 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 2

areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system. At the same time, even a brief and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2019
Blog Post

John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”

proximity to the critical design and engineering aspects of his ambitions. But it’s the school’s general management focus that he believes will prove most useful. “As a general manager, you’re someone who is ‘t-shaped’: deep in one field,... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

18 Oct 2024
Blog Post

The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS

first time ever to HBS. Moving can be scary, and I hoped that living on campus would make it easier to make friends, adjust to Boston weather, and give me the flexibility I wanted. Socially, the proximity to classmates has helped me make... View Details

Profile

Yazan Halwani

impact.” HBS became his top choice, in part because of its relative proximity to the New York art scene, but largely because of its “network of people for support, and to refine ideas,” and for the case method. “Case study provides a nice... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entertainment/Media

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

every quarter. The creation of these clusters creates proximity as profit centers perform complementary activities, making it more beneficial for them to coordinate. Our findings suggest that self-centered choices by profit centers are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

volunteer reading tutors. The criteria for involvement are minimal, often hinging only on geographic proximity to a company site. The 600 school principals I surveyed said they are grateful for any help from the business sector. But what... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

06 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

India Needs to Encourage Trade with China

"sufficient" or even "respectable" volume of bilateral trade. There is a notion in international trade, called the gravity model, which suggests that, ceteris paribus, countries that are larger and more proximate tend... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

28 Apr 2008
HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

encounter someone with a great deal of power, like Wal-Mart, who is also the ultimate non-negotiable partner?" The case details how P&G executive Tom Muccio pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

subsidiaries are only observable at the four-digit level because the inputs they are supplying are so proximate to their parent firms' final good that they appear identical at the two-digit level. We call these View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

effect that is strongest when recalls are in the same product area as innovation activity. A one standard deviation increase in the number of proximate focal firm recalls implies more than a one-year delay in minor innovation. However,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance By: Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning Abstract— We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent... View Details