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- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
Author Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: rawpixel] Related Reading It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works How Small Businesses...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
administration and among the founders of the World Management Survey and the Executive Time Use Study. About the Author Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image:...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults
featured in Work, Employment and Society. Compared to women whose mothers stayed home full time, women raised by an employed mother are 1.21 times more likely to be employed; 1.29 times more likely to supervise others at work; and they...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
highest scores. Advice-seekers Make Mistakes People who seek advice make a variety of mistakes, including: Choosing the wrong advisers, particularly by turning only to those with like-minded ideas, rather than seeking out people who will...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
PeopleImages Convicted stockbroker Bernie Madoff knew exactly what he was doing when he stole billions from clients, yet the financial advisor didn’t pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in the United States by himself. He had the help of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
Direct employment in the US Internet ecosystem has doubled in those four years, with 1 million new jobs added to the million that already existed in 2007, according to a recent study commissioned by the Interactive Advertising Bureau,...
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- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and...
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- 17 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews
Minority job applicants are “whitening” their resumes by deleting references to their race with the hope of boosting their shot at jobs, and research shows the strategy is paying off. In fact, companies are more than twice as likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
increased by 200 percent in the past eight years, rising from 3.5 percent of marketing budgets in 2009 to 10.5 percent in February 2017, according to The CMO Survey 2017. And that upward climb is expected to continue: Marketers say they...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
some people believe," he emphasizes. The fact that such strategies often do not exist or are ineffective is frequently the result of how CSR efforts start. At many companies, these efforts may begin by executive mandate or somewhat...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
efficiency, remote troubleshooting, and customer personalization—has been delayed despite wide acceptance by many experts that the existing power system is falling far short of America's energy needs. In 2009, energy demand in the United...
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- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
most from status. For everyone after that, status differences do not matter nearly as much, if at all," Malter says. His paper on the grand cru classification has been conditionally accepted by a major academic journal. But Malter...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative: Doug Rauch: Solving the American Food Paradox. The case was co-authored by Ryan Johnson, research associate with the Global Research Group. Rauch came up with one solution: In June 2015, he...
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- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
CSOs are of critical importance in successful sustainability efforts, but ironically become less central as sustainability efforts blossom. Although often linked with environmental issues such as water and energy use, a growing number of companies are taking...
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- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
industry like taxicabs. It can fight hard to get the rules changed,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair and director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. “But...
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- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
In a hugely ambitious project, the Unique Identification Authority of India has been charged with implementing a nationwide program to register and assign a one-of-a-kind ID number to every Indian resident—some 1.2 billion people—by 2020 and to meet an interim goal of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Demotivate Your Best Employees
motivated to work harder over the long term. But new research suggests that some awards may actually have the opposite effect, according to a recent paper called The Dirty Laundry of Employee Award Programs: Evidence from the Field, written View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
unsettling images of a fatty stomach, a needle in a midriff, and rotting teeth. The researchers gauged the effectiveness of each type of label over two weeks by tracking the amounts and types of beverages purchased, and comparing those...
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