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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Virtual Water Coolers: A Field Experiment on the Role of Virtual Interactions on Organizational Newcomer Performance

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Jacqueline N. Lane and Iavor Bojinov
Designing management practices to better onboard organizational newcomers working remotely is a key priority for firms. We report results from a randomized field experiment conducted at a large global firm that estimates the performance effects of different types of... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Virtual Water Coolers; Social Interactions; Careers; Field Experiment; Employees; Interpersonal Communication; Internet and the Web; Performance; Personal Development and Career
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Jacqueline N. Lane, and Iavor Bojinov. "Virtual Water Coolers: A Field Experiment on the Role of Virtual Interactions on Organizational Newcomer Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-125, May 2021. (Revised February 2023.)
  • 12 Aug 2021
  • News

Remote Interns Who Created Virtual Water Cooler Moments with Managers Significantly Boosted Their Chances of Getting Hired, a Study Shows

  • 26 Apr 2021
  • Video

Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency

  • 02 Mar 2023
  • News

Investors Are Measuring Return to Office Rates by How Much Employees Are Drinking at the Water Cooler as the Remote Work Wars Rage On

  • 14 Jun 2021
  • News

Onboarding Summer Interns in a Virtual Work Environment: An Experiment Highlights the Pros and Cons of “Virtual Water Coolers”.

  • 21 Aug 2020
  • News

A Virtual Reality Check for Publishing

  • Web

Virtual Campus Tour | MBA

Virtual Campus Tour Visit Take a Virtual Campus Tour Learn how our students interact with our vibrant residential campus, which is designed to foster interaction beyond the classroom, helping to develop... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2021
  • Video

2nd Annual HBS Food, Agriculture & Water Club 2020 Conference: Building a Resilient, Sustainable, and Nourishing Global Food System

  • 05 Feb 2021

2nd Annual HBS Food, Agriculture & Water Club 2020 Conference: Building a Resilient, Sustainable, and Nourishing Global Food System

  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

this a priority, nagging them like worried grandmothers and sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2020
  • News

A Conversation with Prithwiraj Choudhury,

  • September 7, 2020
  • Article

Remote Networking as a Person of Color

By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Anthony J. Mayo
In remote work situations, where people cannot rely on impromptu elevator conversations or water cooler chats with coworkers, the answer isn’t to turn inward. In fact, the need for networking is even more important. In particular, our interactions with people whose... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Networking; Networks; Interpersonal Communication; Race
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Morgan Roberts, Laura, and Anthony J. Mayo. "Remote Networking as a Person of Color." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (September 7, 2020).
  • January 1994 (Revised August 1994)
  • Case

Ocean Spray Cranberries: Environmental Risk Management

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Ocean Spray Cranberries, one of the nation's most successful agricultural cooperatives, faces some difficult environmental management problems associated with water usage and wetlands development. Because of federal and state wetlands laws, new bogs for expansion had... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Innovation and Invention; Risk Management; Cooperative Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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Vietor, Richard H.K. "Ocean Spray Cranberries: Environmental Risk Management." Harvard Business School Case 794-088, January 1994. (Revised August 1994.)
  • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
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YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking

By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora
YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Private Equity; Microfinance; Investment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Banking Industry; India
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Chu, Michael, and Namrata Arora. "YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking." Harvard Business School Case 311-063, October 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
  • 09 Apr 2021
  • Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

In November 2020, three HBS student clubs hosted three separate virtual conferences that drew over 600 attendees, demonstrating the strong and growing interest in the critical connection between business and the environment among HBS... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

amount of debt is analyzed and compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not perform well, the debt rule yields welfare gains virtually equal to the optimal rule.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

players, poor customer service, and regional variations in quality of care. "By virtually any standard, it's an underperforming industry," says Richard Hamermesh, faculty chair of Harvard Business School's recently formed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

for a home water purification solution results in more use of the product. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of buyers) from the causal effect of prices (charging more stimulates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7

Building the Water Cube Robert Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Dilyana KaradzhovaHarvard Business School Case 410-054 Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects and China Construction Design Institute to develop a design... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

can increase use. We test this hypothesis in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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