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- 01 Apr 2021
- News
Kennedy: Time is ripe for remote work
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Redefining Work Life
several corporate boards, and traveled, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA ’68) came calling, tempting Fudge with an offer to run Young & Rubicam, the struggling communications concern he’d acquired in 2000. Fudge, intrigued, was ready View Details
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Corporate Services
- 13 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology
Strategically, it made sense to look at public sector service at the city level.” Tactically, San Jose emerged as Henry’s optimal Leadership Fellows opportunity. “It involved tech, and it would bring me back...
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- 05 Aug 2022
- News
Balancing Act: How to Succeed in the Age of Hybrid Working
- April 1993
- Background Note
Note on High-Commitment Work Systems
By: David A. Garvin and Norman Klein
Describes the history, theory, and practice of high-commitment work systems. The history reviews classical approaches (i.e. Frederick Taylor), the human relations movement, the human resources approach, quality of work life, and empowerment. The theory examines the...
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Design;
Human Resources;
Innovation and Invention;
Managerial Roles;
Work-Life Balance;
Problems and Challenges;
Strategy
Garvin, David A., and Norman Klein. "Note on High-Commitment Work Systems." Harvard Business School Background Note 693-080, April 1993.
- 17 Jun 2016
- News
Investors back rivals Uber and Didi, raising eyebrows
- 15 May 2020
- News
Let’s democratize and decommodify work
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Improve and Innovate
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by Mark D. Cannon & Amy C. Edmondson
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
of remote work. On the other hand, remote work can provide an alternative to a toxic office culture resulting from management neglect. Armando Del Bosque commented, “Organizational culture helps us find what...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
question, Who am I?" says Richard Whiteley. "I discovered that my life purpose is to bring spirit back into business through my writing, speaking, and consulting and to keep...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
Author Talks: Tsedal Neeley on why remote work is here to stay-and how to get it right
In this edition of Author Talks, McKinsey’s Eleni Kostopoulos chats with Tsedal Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, about her book View Details
- May 2008
- Article
Working in the Gray Zone
By: Michel Anteby
Supervisors often turn a blind eye when employees use company resources and time to work on personal projects. They realize that stamping out such behavior may do more harm than good.
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Employee Relationship Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance Effectiveness;
Behavior
Anteby, Michel. "Working in the Gray Zone." Forethought. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 5 (May 2008): 20.
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
“We’re still using terms like telework and telecommute, says Auerbach. “The reality is—even as someone who works so deeply in this field—I actually can’t tell you what those things mean.” Modernizing the lexicon View Details
- 18 Nov 2015
- News
Seven Books for Working Relationships
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Why Open Offices Aren’t Working — and How to Fix Them
- Article
Why Sexual Harassment Persists and What Organizations Can Do to Stop It
By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Long before the #MeToo movement, the insidious effects of harassment were well known to organizational researchers. Women who are harassed often leave their jobs, taking valuable relationships, and potential out the door with them and creating the costly need to hire...
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Work Environment;
Sexual Harassment;
Harassment;
Organizational Culture;
Gender;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leading Change
Ammerman, Colleen, and Boris Groysberg. "Why Sexual Harassment Persists and What Organizations Can Do to Stop It." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (December 21, 2017).
Do Happier People Work Harder?
In this New York Times opinion piece, Teresa Amabile and coauthor Steven Kramer outline actions that business leaders can take to reignite passion for work and revitalize creative productivity even in tough economic times.
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- Working Paper
Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense Against the 24/7 Work Culture
By: Irene Padavic, Robin J. Ely and Erin M. Reid
It is widely accepted that the conflict women experience between family obligations and professional jobs’ long hours lies at the heart of their stalled advancement. Yet research suggests that this “work-family narrative” is partial at best: men, too, experience...
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24/7 Work Culture;
Hegemonic Narrative;
Social Defense;
Work-family Conflict;
Systems Psychodynamic Theory;
Work-Life Balance;
Personal Development and Career;
Gender;
Equality and Inequality;
Organizational Culture
Padavic, Irene, Robin J. Ely, and Erin M. Reid. "Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-Family Narrative as a Social Defense Against the 24/7 Work Culture." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-038, October 2016.
- January 2009
- Article
Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night
By: Noam Wasserman
If you dream of starting your own business, it's better to leave the corporate nest sooner than later, before you get too comfortable with the big-company amenities every start-up lacks. Get going before you're 40 - or even earlier, if you want to make entrepreneurship...
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Wasserman, Noam. "Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 1 (January 2009).
- June 2005
- Article
Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve
By: M. D. Cannon and A. C. Edmondson
Keywords:
Failure;
Learning;
Organizations;
Labor;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Improvement
Cannon, M. D., and A. C. Edmondson. "Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve." Long Range Planning 38, no. 3 (June 2005): 299–319.