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• Case | HBS Case Collection | November 2020

  Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs

  Prithwiraj Choudhury, Iavor Bojnov and Emma Salomon

  Goldman Sachs runs an annual internship for over 3,000 participants, spread across dozens of the firm's global offices. In 2020, the team brought all its resources to bear to transform the internship program into a fully virtual format in just a few short weeks. The new all-virtual internship faced challenges, but also benefited from unexpected opportunities. As the program ended, the team reflected on what worked, what they would change, and what the future of the internship program at Goldman Sachs could look like in 2021 and beyond.

  Keywords: remote work; remote operations; remote internship; internship; virtual socialization; human capital management; Human Resources; Management; Health Pandemics; Adaptation;

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  Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Iavor Bojnov, and Emma Salomon. "Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Case 621-035, November 2020.  View Details

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• Article | Journal of Organization Design

  GitLab: Work Where You Want, When You Want

  Prithwiraj Choudhury, Kevin Crowston, Linus Dahlander, Marco S. Minervini and Sumita Raghuram

  GitLab is a software company that works “all remote” at the scale of more than 1,000 employees located in more than 60 countries. GitLab has no physical office and its employees can work from anywhere they choose. Any step of the organizational life of a GitLab employee (e.g., hiring, onboarding and firing) is performed remotely, except for a yearly companywide gathering. GitLab strongly relies on asynchronous coordination, allowing employees to work anytime they want. After highlighting some of the main practices implemented by GitLab to effectively work all remotely and asynchronously, I asked renowned organizational scientists their thoughts on this interesting case and to question the generalizability of the all remote asynchronous model. Understanding whether and under what conditions this model can succeed can be of guidance for organizational designers that are now considering different remote models in response of the COVID-19 shock and its aftermath.

  Keywords: new forms of organizing; remote work; all remote; virtual organizations; COVID-19; Organizational Design; Employees; Geographic Location; Health Pandemics;

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  Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Kevin Crowston, Linus Dahlander, Marco S. Minervini, and Sumita Raghuram. "GitLab: Work Where You Want, When You Want." Art. 23. Journal of Organization Design 9 (2020).  View Details

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• Article | Research Policy | November 2020

  Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

  Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Hillel Rapoport

  We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants’ receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold increase in the number of foreign inventors from other nations that specialize in those same technologies. For the average country in our sample, this number corresponds to only 25 inventors and a standard deviation of 135. We deal with endogeneity concerns by using historical migration networks to instrument for stocks of migrant inventors. Our results generalize the evidence of previous studies that show how migrant inventors "import" knowledge from their home countries, which translates into higher patenting in the receiving countries. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations.

  Keywords: innovation; migration; patent; knowledge; Innovation and Invention; Immigration; Patents; Technology; Knowledge Dissemination;

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  Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Hillel Rapoport. "Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations." Special Issue on STEM Migration, Research, and Innovation. Research Policy 49, no. 9 (November 2020).  View Details

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