Labor Force Participation - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

managers. Employees were randomly assigned, via a lottery, to certain days they would work in the office. Choudhury and his team then divided the participating HR workers into three groups based on how they split their time between the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

06 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Short Intensive Programs 2024 Preview: From Climate Change to Formula 1

what types of techniques, approaches, and ways of making connections across different concepts resonate most with students. What will help them develop a deeper self-understanding, empathy for others' lack of inclusion, an understanding of the historical and social... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

and their health.” · In a memo to employees, Morgan Stanley’s CEO, James Gorman, wrote, “While long term we can’t be sure how this will play out, we want to commit to you that there will not be a reduction in force at Morgan Stanley in... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

environment, participate in corporate decisions, and be ready to push back when executives head toward murky ethical or legal waters. Bagley's latest book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department. Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations. (This research is collected in... View Details

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

players beyond the basketball court. Feelings about Knight also follow generational lines. While younger students often see Knight as little more than a bully, older participants tell stories of doing their best work under a mentor with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

15 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

information when they are forced to actively choose whether to learn or not. Exley and Kessler replicate this finding as well. When individuals were required to actively choose whether to avoid information, they found that View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Patrick Mullane | About

role, he is responsible for managing Harvard Business School’s portfolio of non-degree programs including all online, in-person, and blended programs. Together, HBS Online and Executive Education reach approximately 40,000 participants... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

we've awakened to issues of racial justice and wanting to participate and contribute. And so what advice do you have for the leaders who are sincerely interested in making a difference inside of their companies and outside of their... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

need a variety of methods, including participant observation and detailed field research, to appreciate these phenomena. No single method would be useful. Some of the tools and methods used in microsociology or even the humanities, such... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

by understanding the role of hormone levels. ©iStock.com/VIPDesignUSA For eons, academics have studied the forces behind unethical acts, disturbed and intrigued by scary real-world data on corporate corruption. The Association of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

strong incentives to impose restrictions on women’s promiscuity. “The gender gaps in labor market participation, micro-entrepreneurship, or business ownership more generally seem to also partly reflect this social norm against women.”... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

unaccommodating behavior by the slighted party. In their 1991 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations (ILR Press), Richard E. Walton and Robert B. McKersie recount such a scenario. After a string of long, protracted contract... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

22 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 22

ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via input-output markets) predict greater relative female entry rates even after controlling for the focal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019
Case

Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)

By: Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani

In 2012, Nalin Jain, then head of GE aviation for South Asia, was given the added responsibility for GE’s transportation business in India, including bidding for a $2.5 billion contract to manufacture, service and maintain 1,000 diesel locomotives for state owned... View Details

Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; India

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

the School's Managing the Future of Work Project. Participants will gain an understanding of what lies beneath the headlines and of the various forces that will shape work in years to come. The Market for... View Details

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

self-interests over others' interests, influencing the decisions they make. Experiment 1 found that participants primed with luxury goods were more likely than those primed with non-luxury goods to endorse business decisions that benefit... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
News

Curb Appeal

ash, food waste, and “rubbish”; materials like metal and paper were reused, and the grease from food waste was used to make soap. New Yorkers were so thrilled that they threw Waring and his workers a parade. The party did not last. In the 1930s, New York City was View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Intervention Labor Global Events the 20 th Century Zeitgeist Demographics Demographics Technology Social Mores Government Intervention Labor Global Events Influence: High 1900 s 19 8.8 million immigrants... View Details

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