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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Evaluations Amid Measurement Error: Determining the Optimal Timing for Workplace Interventions

By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo, Iavor I. Bojinov and Fiammetta Menchetti
Researchers have embraced factorial experiments to simultaneously evaluate multiple treatments, each with different levels. Typically, in large-scale factorial experiments, the primary objective is identifying the treatment with the largest causal effect, especially... View Details
Keywords: Factorial Designs; Fisher Randomizations; Rank Estimators; Employer Interventions; Causal Inference; Mathematical Methods; Performance Improvement
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  • 11 Dec 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

When to Apply?

Keywords: by Katherine Coffman, Manuela Collis, and Leena Kulkarni
  • June 2018
  • Article

Firm Turnover and the Return of Racial Establishment Segregation

By: John-Paul Ferguson and Rembrand Koning
Racial segregation between American workplaces is greater today than it was a generation ago. This increase has happened alongside the declines in within-establishment occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of... View Details
Keywords: Firm Entry; Stratification; Segregration; Entrepreneurship; Business Ventures; Employees; Diversity; Race; Segmentation; United States
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  • 27 Sep 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

  • December 24, 2019
  • Article

Why It's So Hard to Change People's Commuting Behavior

By: Ariella S. Kristal and A. V. Whillans
Car commuters report higher levels of stress and lower job satisfaction compared to train commuters—in large part because car commuting can involve driving in traffic and navigating tense road situations. Some employers are trying to get involved and reduce car... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Motivating People; Time And Wellbeing; Time Stress; Commuting; Behavior; Change; Motivation and Incentives
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  • December 24, 2019
  • Editorial

Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior

By: Ariella Kristal and Ashley Whillans
Car commuters report higher levels of stress and lower job satisfaction compared to train commuters—in large part because car commuting can involve driving in traffic and navigating tense road situations. Some employers are trying to get involved and reduce car... View Details
Keywords: Satisfaction; Behavior; Employees
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  • 28 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation

Keywords: by Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen & Max H. Bazerman
  • 31 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

for managers to openly express support for wellness initiatives and encourage people to use them, Whillans says. For example, managers can ask their staff to block off one hour every week during office hours to work on their own wellness—whether it’s using an online... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Hummy Song, Wharton

  • 15 Apr 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Hal Hershfield, University of California, Los Angeles

  • 2019
  • Book

Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience

By: Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo and David A. Thomas
Race, Work, and Leadership is a rare and important compilation of essays that examines how race matters in people’s experience of work and leadership. What does it mean to be black in corporate America today? How are racial dynamics in organizations changing?... View Details
Keywords: Race And Ethnicity; Diversity Management; Inclusion; Leader Selection; Race; Ethnicity; Diversity; Leadership; Leadership Development; Employment
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  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

within-firm processes. By doing so, we may be overstating what progress has been made on employment integration and ignoring other avenues of intervention that may give greater leverage for further... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr
  • 25 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

ideas or to throw their hat in the ring for a promotion, Coffman says. “I would encourage business leaders to think about how [workers’ confidence levels] impact the processes in their organizations,” Coffman says. “I would say providing extra feedback is a good start.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

resilience intervention platform (Happify), employees who were assigned to and used a scaled-down psychoeducational version of the platform, and employees who did not use their assigned platform (i.e., a no-usage comparison group). We did... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

changes amounted to a $4,000 boost to their income, roughly equivalent to two months’ salary. Di Maggio notes that many employers do credit checks, so when borrowers are in default, they may have more trouble getting jobs. “Once that loan... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

CENTURY ZEITGEIST Six contextual factors deeply influenced the opportunities available to 20th century business leaders: Demographics Technology Social Mores Government Labor Global the 20 th Century Zeitgeist Demographics Demographics Technology Social Mores... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 26, 2016

neglecting information about the original intentions leading to those outcomes. In four experiments, we examine interventions aimed at reducing the outcome bias. Contrary to our initial predictions, individuals weighed others' outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity, Macro and Amir estimate that a one standard deviation increase in generosity attenuates the effect of adverse shocks on employment growth by 7% and on earnings growth by... View Details
  • Web

Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and interventions performed over a full care cycle for an acute medical condition. Such bundled payments create benefits for all the principal players. Bundled payment in health care is the simplest and most effective way to pay for the... View Details