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- 26 Mar 2020
- News
Teleworking during the COVID-19 outbreak
- 31 May 2020
- News
Home work: Coronavirus propels telework trend
- 14 Apr 2020
- News
Three Keys To Engaged, Productive Telework Teams
- 10 Jul 2020
- News
Telework boom weighs on Asia's fast-growing office market
- 16 Feb 2021
- News
What Is the Future of Remote Telework after the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- January 2018 (Revised February 2023)
- Teaching Note
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
This teaching note pairs with the case entitled: “The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO” (case no. 617-027). View Details
- April 2017
- Case
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Telework; Collaborating With Unions; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Trademarks; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; District of Columbia
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Tarun Khanna, and Sarah Mehta. "The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO." Harvard Business School Case 617-027, April 2017.
- 05 May 2020
- News
The new working world
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Rise of Remote Work: Evidence on Productivity and Preferences from Firm and Worker Surveys
By: Alexander Bartik, Zoë Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca and Christopher Stanton
Drawing on surveys of small business owners and employees, we present three main findings about the evolution of remote work after the onset of COVID-19. First, uptake of remote work was abrupt and widespread in jobs suitable for telework according to the task-based... View Details
Bartik, Alexander, Zoë Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, and Christopher Stanton. "The Rise of Remote Work: Evidence on Productivity and Preferences from Firm and Worker Surveys." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (forthcoming). (Pre-published online October 24, 2024.)
- 30 Mar 2021
- News
Remote Work Isn’t Going Anywhere. Here’s How You Can Still Succeed
- 2020
- Working Paper
EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
Alfaro, Laura, Oscar Becerra, and Marcela Eslava. "EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-125, June 2020. (See application of the methodology to Latin American Countries in the IMF Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere 2020, Chapter 3. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/REO/WH/Issues/2020/10/13/regional-economic-outlook-western-hemisphere.)
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen Abstract—Assessing the productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
remote-work conditions. The USPTO provided the perfect opportunity. Seeking to increase efficiency, the agency implemented the Telework Enhancement Act Pilot Program (TEAPP) in 2012. The program transitioned patent examiners to a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
“We’re still using terms like telework and telecommute, says Auerbach. “The reality is—even as someone who works so deeply in this field—I actually can’t tell you what those things mean.” Modernizing the lexicon to reflect the reality of... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
corporate America into the world of remote work was that the cultural and technological accommodations would usher in a new era of efficiency and prosperity. After all, necessity is the mother of invention. And indeed, in a matter or mere months, View Details
Keywords: All Industries