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May 2014
Article

From Purpose to Impact: Figure Out Your Passion and Put It to Work

By: Nick Craig and Scott Snook

We offer opinions on leadership. A need is seen for executives to have a strong belief in the purpose of their lives as individuals and within an organization to be effective leaders and to accomplish their personal goals. Executives are urged to examine their lives to... View Details

Keywords: Leadership

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2022
Article

How Does Working from Home during COVID-19 Affect What Managers Do? Evidence from Time-Use Studies

By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Raffaella Sadun, Andrew L. Kun and Orit Shaer

We assess how the sudden and widespread shift to working from home during the pandemic impacted how managers allocate time throughout their working day. We analyze the results from an online time-use survey with data on 1,192 knowledge workers (out of which 973 are... View Details

Keywords: Time-use; Working-from-home; COVID; Managers; Knowledge Workers; Health Pandemics; Time Management

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03 Apr 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo, and Xina Li

17 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

man and a woman—who work for the same company at the same time and both engage in financial misconduct at the same time, and do an exact comparison,” says Egan. The researchers found that women who engaged... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

2023
Working Paper

The Effects of Inconsistent Work Schedules on Employee Lateness and Absenteeism

By: Caleb Kwon and Ananth Raman

Problem Definition: Employee lateness and absenteeism pose challenges for businesses, particularly in the retail industry, where punctuality is vital for optimal store operations and customer service. This paper relates employee lateness and absenteeism with... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Employees; Human Capital; Retail Industry

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08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

doing that, you’re spending too much time in meetings.” You Might Also Like: These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

14 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

business—it's difficult to isolate the influence of any given organization. That isn't to say that measuring large societal change should never be attempted. "It can be done, but it requires a longer time horizon and an effort to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Compilation

Max Green: Work Patterns at Ditto (C)

By: Leslie A. Perlow

According to his managers, Max, a software engineer on a product development team, is an organizational superstar. Describes his life and provides a log of how Max spends his time. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Time Management; Groups and Teams; Work-Life Balance; Information Technology Industry

August 12, 2021
Article

The Endless Digital Workday

By: Arjun Narayan, Rohan Narayana Murty, Rajath B. Das and Scott Duke Kominers

The shift to remote work ended the traditional 9–5 workday: employees work in bursts, at night, between caregiving tasks, and whenever they can find time between the endless distractions of messages, calls, and emails. New research, however, shows that for many teams,... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Workday; Team Overlap; Groups and Teams; Employees; Performance Productivity; Management

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01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

break up the airline and lay off thousands of employees if a consensual agreement could not be reached. Management made the threat real by developing an actual restructuring plan, containing detailed financial projections and valuations. Moreover, United's CEO at the... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

09 Apr 2024
Book

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

rituals, like carving out time for coffee with colleagues once a week or kicking off team meetings by sharing weekend plans before jumping into work talk, report finding more meaning in their work, he says.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2021
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What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?

consciously working with your superior to obtain the best possible results for you, your boss, and the company.” However, it didn’t trigger the amount of follow-on research that the subject deserved after early interest in the topic died... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2021
Article

Leisure Beliefs and the Subjective Well-being of Nations

By: Lucia Macchia and A.V. Whillans

Here, we construct a data set of 79 countries (N = 220,000) and explore whether differences in the prioritization of time (leisure) vs. money (work) explain cross-country differences in happiness. Consistent with our predictions, countries whose citizens value leisure... View Details

Keywords: Leisure; Work; Subjective Well-being; Public Policy; Employment; Happiness; Governance; Policy

27 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

Since English is not your native language, it will take you some time to get the hang of writing.” Suspecting the instructor had judged her work unfairly based on her last name, she decided to own the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Compilation

Laura Barr: Work Patterns at Ditto (B)

By: Leslie A. Perlow

According to her managers, Laura is an "ideal female employee." Depicts her life and provides a log of how she spends her time. This is a rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Time Management; Work-Life Balance; Gender; Information Technology Industry

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

concept of "Enterprise 2.0"—a term coined by McAfee on the general idea of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used in business—popped up on Wikipedia, McAfee beamed. "I was bizarrely proud when my work rose to the level of inclusion in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

December 2023
Article

Discerning Saints: Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation and Selective Prosociality at Work

By: Mijeong Kwon, Julia Lee Cunningham and Jon M. Jachimowicz

Intrinsic motivation has received widespread attention as a predictor of positive work outcomes, including employees’ prosocial behavior. In the current research, we offer a more nuanced view by proposing that intrinsic motivation does not uniformly increase prosocial... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Moral Sensibility; Employees