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- 14 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?
more egalitarian workplace that reflects modern demands, such as flexibility and less face time. The stereotype of a devoted worker willing to put in limitless hours is becoming obsolete, McGinn finds. “Organizations are going to have to...
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by Kara Baskin
- 28 May 2024
- In Practice
Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible
is that the types of skills needed are constantly evolving, so many employers prefer workers with a strong foundation in a variety of skills. This allows them to learn quickly and adapt to whatever new skills are required of them. Country...
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by Rachel Layne
- 05 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It
when the feedback giver and receiver know each other well.” The results highlight a potential disconnect in the workplace: While many workers are eager for feedback, especially constructive feedback, in many cases managers may be...
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by Michael Blanding
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
Employers struggling to find workers during the current labor shortage might want to rethink their hiring criteria by taking a new look at job candidates who lack college degrees. American employers have routinely defaulted to requiring...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 31 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders
come from different sources, or they must share decision-making with employees—or both. Workers increasingly resist one-way, top-down communication and commands; they expect to be heard and to help develop their organizations’ plans and...
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- 11 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?
success could also influence people’s perceptions of workers in various jobs, particularly low-wage positions, the researchers say. “This overemphasis on effort could lead people to believe that workers in...
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- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
Artificial intelligence is changing the nature of work on a scale some predict will be as transformative as the Industrial Revolution. It’s also exposing the yawning gaps in a fractured US employment system that many companies and workers...
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- 27 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)
pandemic’s uneven demands on labor markets and supply chains. The study notes that Amazon’s 2020 EEO-1 suggested that three in five workers hired to cover the pandemic surge in sales were people of color, but only 3.6 percent of its...
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by Shalene Gupta
- Web
Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
Thomas, Benjamin Enke, Ryan Oprea, and Jeffrey Yang. "Behavioral Attenuation." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32973, September 2024. Gender Gaps: Back and Here to Stay? Evidence from Skilled Ugandan Workers During COVID-19 By: Livia...
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
Bundle Podcast Why Companies and Skilled Workers Are Turning to On-Demand Work Joseph Fuller and Allison Bailey 24 Nov 2020 | HBR IdeaCast Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage Joseph B. Fuller 17 Nov 2020 |...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49810 October 2015 Journal of Labor Economics The Value of Bosses By: Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—How and by how much do supervisors enhance View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
Lawyers, financial professionals, doctors—these types of workers often expect their abilities to remain steady or grow with time. But Brooks points to data showing that’s not the case. In almost every high-skill profession, he finds,...
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by Avery Forman
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
Opportunity Index (pdf) By: Joseph B. Fuller, Matt Sigelman, Nik Dawson, Alex Martin, and Gad Levanon Mar 2023 Report Hidden Workers - Part-Time Potential By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, & Francis Hintermann January 2023 Article...
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- 05 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales
you’re an agent or a virtual-tour creator, temper your clients’ expectations and highlight potential benefits, like their ability to reduce showings with unlikely buyers. You Might Also Like: When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose View Details
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Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant...
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- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
that over time, rituals themselves become meaningful to us—a sense of ‘this is how we do things around here.’ And that meaning is then linked to find more meaning in the work that we do.” [iStockphoto/Diego Cerro Jimenez] Related reading from the Working View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
You Might Also Like: Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management? Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores? COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains Feedback or ideas to share?...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
say, a product firm. Consequently, a product firm may not be attractive to various knowledge workers who prefer to work in the consulting environment. A fourth driver is the demand for process and behavior...
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
dataset of firms from the U.S. and seven European countries we study the impact of ICT on worker autonomy, plant manager autonomy, and span of control. Consistent with the theory, we find that better information technologies (Enterprise...
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- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
Few companies in the past few years have rocketed to success faster than Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy, which together have transformed the way we hail a cab, plan a vacation, and shop for handmade gifts, respectively. In a previous HBS Working View Details