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30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

more telecommuting, at least among more distant employees.” While some firms, such as Goldman Sachs and IDG, are eyeing full office returns in the summer or fall, many others are considering either hybrid or full-time remote work setups... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Mar 2023
What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

Account of a Research Program Conducted by the Western Electric Company, Hawthorne Works, Chicago (Harvard University Press, 1939) Edgar Schein, Organizational Culture and Leadership(Jossey-Bass, 1985) Your feedback to last month’s column Will View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Mar 2019
HBS Case

The Ferrari Way

have to keep prices up.” The company has also bucked industry trends by moving deliberately on adding technologies to its cars. While it has installed hybrid drivetrains to some of its newer models, it has eschewed connectivity and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

29 Mar 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

leveraged the formula in Egypt and in more than 100 other countries. In fact, Gilead generated substantial revenues through this hybrid approach for viral hepatitis and HIV. In doing so, this method helped patients regardless of whether... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

percent increase in new patents between firms in those places. “Even in a hybrid world, even in a world of work-from-anywhere, we still need to occasionally meet colleagues in person for social purposes.” Choudhury and colleagues teased... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

15 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

offices and forging new paths in hybrid and remote work models. Many workers decided they didn’t want to suffer through long commutes or return to jobs they hated and joined the “Great Resignation.” And ultimately, virus variants and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Dec 2007
Op-Ed

When Your Product Becomes a Commodity

published prices. Facing commoditization and non-existent product innovation, some companies retreat to serving a progressively smaller niche of price-insensitive, service-oriented customers. Others with favorable cost structures may aim to boost market share but then... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

continuation of the compensation growth and workplace improvements that we have started to see over the last few years. For instance, remote or hybrid work models appeal to many skilled workers, even if their employer would prefer them... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

acknowledgement of the awkward and tricky working situation. Assessing short-term goals keeps everyone on the same page and pushing forward together. As employees start to shift gradually back into the office (with hybrid... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

09 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

least likely to seek it out, the researchers discovered. The findings emerge as companies worldwide navigate the complexities of training and acclimating new employees in hybrid or remote work settings. With so much in flux, it might be... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

familiar." The remote and hybrid work that rose up during the pandemic helped break down these boundaries. Virtual meeting and collaboration platforms helped level the playing field by increasing meeting access and giving voices equal... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

31 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

team says. Deciding who makes decisions So, who gets to make those choices? One possibility would be to set broad guidelines via legislation and empower a medical board or government agency to define the details, the researchers argue. Another possibility is to take a... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

firm. In fact, hybrid models can embrace WFA, with teams collectively determining when to come to the office. Instead of mandating workers to work from the office a few days every week, teams can decide to co-locate in the office a week a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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By: Boris Vallee

Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

this hybrid approach is allowing companies to replace traditional customer interviews and focus groups, according to Amano and his colleagues. Understanding what prompts a customer to purchase a product—a concept known as attribution—is... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

with the new ones. Organizations are trying so hard to maintain their hybrid work environments and fill offices. They’re trying so hard to get back to the pre-pandemic workplace, but was it so great? No. There was and continues to be a... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

Contact? Managers understand but are still assessing the need for face-to-face (f2f) contact. Various hybrid working arrangements along with making precious f2f time more effective are the answer. That’s the sense I get from responses to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

are you working on next? A: Given the success we've had with the structure of this novel in classrooms and with readers so far, with the support of our talented Harvard Business Press team, we're extending the hybrid case-novel form to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2018
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New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs

By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee

For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Values and Beliefs; Integration; Theory

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