Hospital To Home - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

Workers commute an average 38 minutes each way between home and work—a trip that can feel like a dreadful chore before the workday even begins. In fact, long commutes lower job satisfaction and increase employee turnover. Now, recent... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

performed every procedure in an aim to provide a full set of services in every location. While that strategy was effective when hospitals had little to offer, the ever... View Details

07 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

When COVID-19 first sent office employees home last year, many managers filled their teams’ calendars with online check-ins, drop-ins, and updates to make up for the loss of spontaneous interactions—often... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Pressure to increase gender diversity in C-suites is so intense that companies are trying to draw women candidates with higher salary offers, a phenomenon that is closing the gender pay gap among senior... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

Welcome to the new world of remote work, pandemic style. Before the coronavirus hit, 5.2 percent of US employees reported telecommuting most of the time, while 43 percent worked from home at least some of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Collaborating with a friend, Nouf, Fatima launched Jonnah, a nonprofit that would help women with sewing skills get the materials, space, and services necessary to run a garment business. By August 2018, they had successfully launched... View Details

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About - Race, Gender & Equity

where she practiced a culturally responsive pedagogy model in her home community. She brings those insights and creativity with her in this role. Sign Up For Our Newsletter Join our mailing list to receive... View Details

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

put management tools—such as finance, strategy, operations, and leadership—together to take on larger leadership roles.” Handling hard conversations The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of these skills, the authors say. As... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

for the MBA classroom. While I originally enrolled in CORe to determine if I wanted to pursue an MBA, I ended up using the knowledge I gained from CORe to interview for and... View Details

Portrait Project

Alan Xie

I revised my first resume at age nine. Red ballpoint pen in hand, I was my parents’ editor of last resort — delighted to mark up misplaced modifiers, oblivious to the quiet tragedy of fifteen years’ English... View Details

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

P. Norton aims to make strategy a continual process. The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage shows managers how to weave organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Which is the best dating app? Can money actually buy love? When do you talk about money in a new relationship and how do you broach the topic? How can well-meaning parents actually help their... View Details

18 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

barrel careening over Niagara Falls. It’s not that IoT has flopped; far from it. Everything in our homes seems to be connected. IoT devices enable networks that make possible smart speakers, smart TVs, smart... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

Profile

Harshini Chengareddty

only child, but the time I got to spend running around exploring with my friends, making s’mores by the campfire, and staying up late telling stories was a highlight of my childhood. What is the best thing about your View Details

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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

heart of Silicon Valley. His landmark 2003 gift to establish the Rock Center funded not only a home base for entrepreneurship faculty, but also a lasting foundation for innovative course development, MBA and... View Details

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

case, short-termism manifested itself through the myopic underweighting of the long-term adverse consequences associated with the high credit risk of many mortgage holders and the possibility of a halt to rising View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

tragic mistakes of the past. Published April 26, 2022 Letter from Dean Srikant Datar to the HBS Community on Ukraine The invasion of Ukraine—with the horrific news of lives lost, images of hospitals and... View Details

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Alumni - Global

Organizing the Greek diaspora to help rebuild the country—and create the conditions to bring its citizens home again Re: Afroditi Xydi (MBA 2022); Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA... View Details

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

to keep working from home part of the time after COVID-19 abates, researchers are probing how virtual interaction might reshape organizations. In the first large-scale analysis of digital communication early... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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