by Prithwiraj Choudhury - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2021
News

From Permanent Work-from-Home Models to Full-Scale Returns, Companies like Amazon, Twitter, and Goldman Sachs Are Pursuing Different Office Policies as Restrictions Ease

07 Feb 2022
News

Ask Help Desk: What Should I Do When My Job Gives Me Lousy Tech?

06 Oct 2020
News

Extremely Transparent and Incredibly Remote

15 Dec 2021
News

Pandemic Sweetens Lure of Smaller Cities’ Relocation Incentives

26 Mar 2020
News

Preparing For The Post-Crisis World: Using AI And RPA To Foster Remote Work

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

from Anywhere or Co-locate? Autonomy versus Learning Effects at the United States Patent Office This study of a real firm presents robust econometric evidence that "work from anywhere" organizational policies can have positive effects on net worker output.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

that eight of the 10 most-read HBS Working Knowledge stories of the year were COVID-focused. Readers sought insights from HBS faculty about everything from managing large-scale remote work to leading during a crisis. The year was also marked View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

below. References: Prithwiraj Choudbury and Emma Salomon, GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A), Harvard Business School Publishing, April 2, 2020. Chip Cutter, The Back-to-Work Puzzle, The Wall Street Journal, July 24-25, 2021.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

by our unconscious mind” Both decision-making methods have strengths and weaknesses, says Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Maarten Bos. Our conscious mind is pretty good at following rules, but our unconscious mind—our ability... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2020
News

The Future of the Office: Remote Work after the Pandemic

10 Nov 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

Here’s one thing they learned: “Office pairs that lose one or two shared business hours due to [Daylight Savings Time] reduce their total communication volumes by 9.2 percent on average from baseline levels, an effect driven View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

by government desire to increase local consumer spending. WFA has given a boost to midwestern American towns and cities as talent relocates from more expensive, coastal areas, Choudhury adds—a phenomenon... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is... View Details

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Listen by Ben Rand A chatbot might be able to write emails that sound human, but can the technology respond to staff questions just like the boss would? Research by Prithwiraj... View Details

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Managing the Future of Work

Lovett The Caring Company By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman Faculty Lynda M. Applegate Prithwiraj Choudhury Joseph B. Fuller Shane Greenstein Nien-he Hsieh William R. Kerr Karen G. Mills Frank Nagle Jan... View Details

January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
Case

TCS: From Physical Offices to Borderless Work

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Malini Sen

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a multinational IT services company headquartered in Mumbai, is a subsidiary of one of India’s most reputed conglomerates, the Tata Group. In 2020, TCS was valued at $144.7 billion, the highest for any company in the IT sector,... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Organizational Structure; Change Management; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Customer Satisfaction; Information Technology Industry; India; Asia; United States; Europe

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July 2020
Article

Intra-firm Geographic Mobility: Value Creation Mechanisms and Future Research Directions

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

This paper argues that intra-firm geographic mobility is an understudied mechanism that can help mitigate coordination failures in a geographically distributed organization. The paper presents an organizing framework on how intra-firm geographic mobility creates value... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Geographic Location; Value Creation