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The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration

By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban

Organizations’ pursuit of increased workplace collaboration has led managers to transform traditional office spaces into “open,” transparency-enhancing architectures with fewer walls, doors, and other spatial boundaries, yet there is scant direct empirical research on... View Details

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09 Aug 2016
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Startup Balancing Act

It was my first day of work and I was nervous, so much so that my legs were wobbly. I tilted forward, then backward. I finally steadied myself by grabbing onto a cubicle wall and was able to move forward evenly. However, I soon found... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

24 Apr 2019
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Workers are revolting against the open office concept

17 May 2021
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Why Workplaces Need to Match Technology with Work Goals

01 May 2020
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A Pandemic Won’t Kill the Open Office, but Slack Could

01 Mar 2014
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Seeing Is Deceiving

October 2001 (Revised November 2002)
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Herman Miller(B): Creating Innovation Streams

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus

In 1997, Mike Volkema faced the difficulty of attempting to revitalize a once dynamic organization. Volkema wondered how he could incorporate advances made within subsidiaries, such as Miller SQA's business model innovation, into the company as a whole while also... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Product Design; Product Development; Product; Supply Chain Management; Business Model; Service Delivery; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

always serve with love no matter what we're doing. For example, I mean, you're sitting in a cubicle and you don't like it. And it's pretty pretty boring. But you could look over to the person in the next View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

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Robert M. Tichio

who may despair or who are hopeless. To find those people not on the other side of the globe, but in the cubicle next door. That relationships will be my legacy. That my life will be marked not by the content of my accomplishments but... View Details

29 Oct 2006
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The History and Influence of Andy Grove

Business School. Tedlow spent several years researching and interviewing Grove, to the point of inhabiting a small cubicle in Intel's Santa Clara, California headquarters. Although Grove participated with Tedlow, he did not review the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

01 Jun 2024
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Crash Pad

each floor—“and lots of little cubicles on the inside. Turning those into units with light is not at all easy to do.” Still, post-pandemic trends are reshaping commercial real estate markets in ways that favor repurposing at least some... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

01 Apr 2002
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Pamela Thomas Graham

fifteen hours of live programming, five days a week. "It's a pretty full plate," she admits in an interview at the network's Fort Lee, New Jersey, headquarters. The CNBC offices clearly favor function over form, with dozens of reporters packed into View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

13 Feb 2013
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5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

the athletic prowess of the marathon-running cubicle mate than to align ourselves with a sedentary doughnut lover. "People's activity levels tended to converge to the lowest-performing members of their groups," the researchers write. "In... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

or in a cubicle on Wall Street, seeing how elements of the status quo actually inhibit desired outcomes — and breaking with those elements — is the real value-added of diversity in the workplace. —Deborah Blagg View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Mar 2003
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All in a Day's Work

on the third floor of Palladio Hall, a handsomely renovated Renaissance-style building located in the inner-city neighborhood of Roxbury. Mardie Oakes sits in a cubicle near high windows that let in the noise of sirens and city buses... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate

23 Oct 2018
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Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

live," and MBAs Across America in a lot of ways was my first sort of attempt at that alternate way. My first year at HBS, three classmates and I decided that instead of going and sitting in a cubicle all summer doing the right thing,... View Details

23 Jul 2018
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The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

about them” What my co-author Stephen Turban and I were ultimately able to produce is the first work I know of that looks empirically at how interactions between individuals in headquarters change when employees move from cubicles to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

09 Nov 2006
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Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

otherwise difficult to get an interview. I also had a cubicle at Intel in Santa Clara for fourteen months, and I also visited some of their sites including their fabrication facilities, which are incredible manufacturing operations. Q: So... View Details