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  • 16 Feb 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

Keywords: by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri; Public Administration; Public Relations
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Too Motivated?

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

I show that an agent's motivation to do well (objectively) may be unambiguously bad in a world with differing priors, i.e., when people openly disagree on the optimal course of action. The reason is that an agent who is strongly motivated is more likely to follow... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Employees; Wages; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Agency Theory; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 2008
  • Chapter

Knowledge Work, Craft Work, and Calling

Social critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements of work that have been... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Working Conditions; Production; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Employees
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  • 03 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

rates is the highest priority in higher education. A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing. Analyses by labor economists, as well as a survey commissioned by the Pew Research... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education
  • 07 Jan 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

"With the virtual mobility of global labor insured, only those companies and nations will grow ... that make the best use of entrepreneurial qualities...." How governments should spend money in support of innovation clearly... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

jockeying for position, observed Hugh Langmuir, a Paris-based director of Cinven. Hampered by high labor costs, Western Europe is also feeling the pinch of competition from the Far East, especially China, Langmuir said. It is hard to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

perspective on the current global "descent of money." Book Link: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/ 0,,9781440653995,00.html?The_Ascent_of_Money_Niall_Ferguson Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with Flexible Labor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

investment opportunities under British law. Exports of labor-intensive, capital-light manufactures by countries with relatively low labor costs—e.g., textiles and garments—involved arbitrage as well, but across economic differences rather... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

  Working PapersThe Effects of a Centralized Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Abstract New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May–June 2023
  • Article

The High Cost of Neglecting Low-Wage Workers: Six Mistakes That Companies Make—and How They Can Do Better

By: Joseph Fuller and Manjari Raman
Many companies blame outside factors for the trouble they’ve been having in finding and retaining frontline workers: the pandemic, the government’s stimulus checks, the intrinsic nature of low-wage work. The authors argue that in fact the real problem lies in six big... View Details
Keywords: Retention; Recruitment; Human Capital; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Performance Productivity
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  • 25 Oct 2018
  • Cold Call Podcast

Vodafone’s Innovative Approach to Advanced Technologies

Keywords: Telecommunications
  • 21 Dec 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study

Keywords: by Christine Exley & Stephen Terry
  • September 2020
  • Article

Relaxing Household Liquidity Constraints Through Social Security

By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
More than a quarter of working-age households in the United States do not have sufficient savings to cover their expenditures after a month of unemployment. Recent proposals suggest giving workers early access to a small portion of their future Social Security benefits... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Personal Finance; Employment; Welfare; Insurance; Government Legislation
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  • July 2022
  • Article

The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households

By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao and Edison Yu
Using new employer-employee matched data, this paper investigates the impact of uncertainty, as measured by idiosyncratic stock market volatility, on individual outcomes. We find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Employment Risk; Consumption; Employment; Risk and Uncertainty; System Shocks; Insurance; Household; Spending
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  • November 2004
  • Teaching Note

Spain: Straddling the Atlantic (TN)

By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Teaching Note to (9-705-006). View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; Transformation; Relationships; Labor; Markets; War; Economy; Spain
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  • February 2004
  • Article

Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth A. Schatzel, Giovanni B. Moneta and Steven J. Kramer
This exploratory study investigated leader behaviors related to perceived leader support, encompassing both instrumental and socioemotional support. The study first established that leader support, proposed to be a key feature of the work environment for creativity,... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Leadership; Behavior; Working Conditions; Perception; Performance
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  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

of the finance and insurance sector. We provide the first large-scale study that documents the economy-wide extent of misconduct among financial advisers and the associated labor market consequences of misconduct. Seven percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

business. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609011 China's Evolving Labor Laws Harvard Business School Case 308-092 The (A) case describes key provisions of the new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in generosity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Does Your Company Need a Chief Medical Officer?

By: Tsedal Neeley
With the Covid-19 pandemic still raging but businesses trying to remain operational, organizations now have a life or death role to play in protecting the health of employees, customers, and the public. That means they need a new executive in the C-suite: a chief... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Health; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Working Conditions
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