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- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing...
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- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
help him understand themes across the deals that can inform construction of new deals in the future. Topics include unsupervised learning; similarity and proximity; K-means clustering, with measures of Euclidean distance and cosine...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
effort, assimilation success was larger for those that were culturally closer to native whites (i.e., Western and Northern Europeans). These patterns are consistent with a framework in which changing perceptions of out-group View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
and it was working for me as a solo pursuit. Then later on, and I forget exactly when, but let's say 2011, 2012, it became more of a cultural phenomenon, as there were apps, devices, et cetera. And even then, it seemed like the community...
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Jason A. Kilar
fully separate company with its own culture and structure. We decided that ultimately Hulu was going to be a place for very premium content. I had written the business plan for Amazon to get into video back in 1997 and ultimately, I was...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53928 Homesick or Home Run? Distance from Hometown and Employee Performance: A Natural Experiment from India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Ohchan Kwon Abstract—Companies often assign...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
distance from the Boston campus. They say the workplace as we used to know it, quite frankly, is dead. Not only is remote work considered table stakes to employees, but the pandemic has challenged conventional thinking about work in other...
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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
R&D laboratories (at varying degrees of distance from three major life sciences hotspots-Massachusetts, San Diego County, and the San Francisco Bay Area). Our findings indicate that geographic proximity is a significant predictor of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
controlling for investment size, stage, and industry. Geographic distance and technological inexperience by the VC increase the probability the investment is taken up by a partner and not the VC. This work contributes to an emerging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the fact that the word “retirement” has outgrown its usefulness? The word itself suggests a literal withdrawal, a distancing from the world that doesn’t suit most graduates of HBS and certainly doesn’t jibe with the subjects profiled...
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Personal Services
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
firms relative to firms with proximate divisions. The effects are strongest in dispersed firms with relatively less pay disclosure prior to 1992, a subsample for which the ruling had a relatively larger impact. Finally, based on analysis of manager pairs within a firm,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
particularly within a tenth of a mile, of a house lowers the price at which it is sold. Our preferred estimate of this effect is that a foreclosure at a distance of 0.05 miles lowers the price of a house by about 1%. Download the paper...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
I will remember most is how deeply you connected with one another. When you arrived in Fall 2021, we were slowly emerging from the pandemic. But even testing, masking, and distancing did not stop you from forming deep bonds. Instead, you...
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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
a chain. Our results are robust to alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
challenges as he tries to maintain EMC's culture of customer centricity. These include 1) translating EMC's platinum service levels, designed to appeal to the world's largest companies, to small businesses and B2C customers, 2)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance themselves from seekers who...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
your career choices. Be who you are everywhere. Finally, establish a female network and maintain it in spite of distance and demands on your time. When constructing this group, ensure that at least one member has the gusto to disagree...
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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
capital markets, standard setters, and financial analysts and how managers make accounting choices. But as accounting scholars have focused on understanding how markets and users process accounting data, they have distanced themselves...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
support as companies have gone to distance work. And this acceleration just meant the supply-demand imbalance, in terms of people with digital skills. Big companies had not budgeted for this sudden surge in their need to support remote...
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