The rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by Covid-19 have forced companies to rapidly advance their digital footprint, using cloud, storage, cybersecurity, and device tools to accommodate their new remote workforce.

Experiencing the benefits of remote working—including nonexistent commute times, lower operational costs, and a larger pool of global job applicants—many companies, including Twitter and Google, plan to permanently incorporate remote days or give employees the option to work from home full-time. But virtual work has it challenges. Employees feel lost, isolated, out of sync, and out of sight. They want to know how to build trust, maintain connections without in-person interactions, and a proper work/life balance. Managers want to know how to lead virtually, how to keep their teams motivated, what digital tools they’ll need, and how to keep employees productive.

Providing compelling, evidence-based answers to these and other pressing issues, Remote Work Revolution is essential for navigating the enduring challenges teams and managers face. Filled with specific actionable steps, original illustrations and interactive tools, this timely book will help team members deliver results previously out of reach. Following Neeley’s advice, employees will be able to break through routine norms to successfully use remote work to benefit themselves, their groups, and ultimately their organizations.

SPEAKER: Tsedal Neeley, Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration/HBS

Tsedal Neeley (@tsedal) is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies. She regularly advises top leaders who are embarking on virtual work and large scale-change that involves global expansion, digital transformation, and becoming more agile.

Tsedal heads and teaches in the first-year required Leadership and Organizational Behavior course in the MBA program that focuses on how to lead effectively; the curriculum addresses group behavior and performance, organization design, change and how to align people behind a common vision. With Bill George and Krishna Palepu she co-chairs the executive offering, Leading Global Businesses, which helps top leaders develop emerging and mature market strategies in a global and increasingly digital economy. She also teaches extensively in executive programs such as Harvard Business Analytics Program. Tsedal is a recipient of the prestigious Charles M. Williams Award for Outstanding Teaching in Executive Education and the Greenhill Award for outstanding contributions to Harvard Business School. She serves on the Board of Directors of Brightcove, Brown Capital Management, Harvard Business Publishing and the Partnership Inc.

Her forthcoming book,​ Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere (2021, Harper Collins Business), provides remote workers and leaders with the best practices necessary to perform at the highest levels in their organizations. Her award-winning book, The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations chronicles the behind-the-scenes globalization process of a company over the course of five years. She has also published extensively in leading scholarly and practitioner-oriented outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Management Science, Journal of International Business, Strategic Management Journal and Harvard Business Review, and her work has been widely covered in media outlets such as BBC, CNN, Financial Times, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist. Her HBS case, Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, is one of the most used cases worldwide on the subject of virtual work. 

Prior to her academic career, Tsedal spent ten years working for companies like Lucent Technologies and The Forum Corporation in various roles, including strategies for global customer experience, 360-degree performance software management systems, sales force/sales management development, and business flow analysis for telecommunication infrastructures. A sought-after speaker with extensive international experience, she is fluent in four languages. She holds a patent for her software simulation on global collaboration and is a member of Rakuten’s Advisory Board. 

Tsedal received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Management Science and Engineering, specializing in Work, Technology and Organizations. Tsedal was named to Thinkers50 2018 On the Radar list for making lasting contributions to management, honored as a Stanford Distinguished Alumnus Scholar and was a Stanford University School of Engineering Lieberman award recipient for excellence in teaching and research.

Join HBS NEO for a Wine Tasting with a native Clevelander, Andy Peay, Marketing, Sales and everything else at Peay Winery

Andy Peay along with his brother, Nick, and Sister-in law, Vanessa, followed their passion and are experiencing success on a 52 acre hilltop in Cloverdale California that holds 85,000 vines!

NOW—we have the opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their labors with Andy talking about his passion.

Nick and Vanessa grow the grapes and Andy is as  his title notes—runs the business.

You will receive four-ounce servings with accoutrements of the following

• 2017 Peay Sonoma Coast Chardonnay
• 2018 Peay Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir
• 2017 Peay Pomarium Pinot Noir
• 2016 Peay LaPruma Syrah

PICKUP DETAILS: We will have 3 different pick up points which will be determined based on the location of the attendees and will be announced following the close of registration.

If you are interested in purchasing 750 ml. of any of the offerings, we can arrange to have bottles available at your pickup point and will send an order form for your use following registration. Peay wines are also available at Cuffs in Chagrin Falls.

Join HBS NEO for a conversation with Professor Daniel Isenberg on Scale Up Ecosystem™ For Driving Economic Growth. 

Daniel Isenberg has been a pioneer in understanding and impacting entrepreneurship ecosystems and has led the development of the Scale Up Ecosystem™ program for economic growth and broad-based prosperity. In the context of Scale Up Ecosystems, Dan has created the Scalerator® , the online Scale Up Resilience and Scale Up Ecosystems Master Programs.

Professor at Columbia Business School and Babson College, from 1981-1987 and then from 1987 to 2005 was an entrepreneur and VC in Israel before joining HBS from 2005-2009 where he pioneered education in international entrepreneurship.

He has made investments in over two dozen technology startups as well as two MIT VC funds and Fortissimo Capital and authored Worthless Impossible and Stupid: How Contrarian Entrepreneurs Create and Capture Extraordinary Value (Harvard Business Review Press 2013) and over 30 digital and print articles on entrepreneurship in the Harvard Business Review. He has been featured in the Economist, Forbes, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, etc. Dan and colleagues have founded and directed Manizales-Mas, Scale Up Milwaukee, Scale Up Rio, Scale Up Atlantic Canada, Scale Up Guatemala, and ScaleratorNEO. Dan has conducted World Economic Forum events at Davos, Africa, Europe, Latin America and China, was an associate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Growth Lab (2016-2017), and has lectured at MIT. In 2012 Mikhail Gorbachev awarded Dan the Pio Manzu Award for “Innovations in Economic Development.”

Dan holds the Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University. Dan has four grown children and two grandchildren. Dan enjoys salsa dancing (On2), collecting wine, art and fishing; but is most excited about spending time with his kids and his grandchildren, helping his devil investments grow, and by being surprised by what entrepreneurs around the world can accomplish.

Join HBS NEO for a discussion on “Domestic Economic Forecast + Program for Economic Inclusion” with Emily Garr Pacetti and Guhan Venkatu.

About the presenters…

Emily Garr Pacetti is a vice president and community affairs officer in the Community Development Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. She oversees the department, including research, policy analysis, and community outreach in the Cleveland Fed’s Fourth Federal Reserve District. Ms. Pacetti joined the Bank in July 2017. Prior to her current position, Garr Pacetti was associate director at The Rockefeller Foundation, director of research and evaluation at the Cleveland–based Fund for Our Economic Future and was a Fulbright Fellow in Mexico City (2005–2007). Garr Pacetti holds a BA in political communications from Emerson College, an MS in urban studies from el Colegio de México, and an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Guhan Venkatu is Group Vice President of the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland leads the department’s regional analysis and outreach group. He joined the Bank in 1998 as a research analyst. In his tenure with the Bank, he has held positions of increasing responsibility including economist and vice president and senior regional officer of the Bank’s Pittsburgh Branch. His prior research has focused on inflation and inflation expectations, housing and household finance, and factors related to regional economic growth. His research and analysis have been a re-source for the public, and the Bank’s president and boards of directors.