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- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
Source: iPhoto Startup founders with a hands-on management style are more likely to retain employees and see their firms thrive, new research shows. The results are particularly applicable to knowledge-intensive technology firms, where... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
leaders who create arcane and tedious processes can kill employee morale and cripple company performance just as quickly as an adversary who pours sand into the gas tank of a company vehicle, Thomke writes in the MIT Sloan Management... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
It is complicating to put on the board family member-employees who are working their way up the organization ladder. Their supervisors too often complain that it is not clear if the family employee reports to them or vice versa. I advise... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
incident reporting systems). Providing feedback about actions taken negatively impacted frontline workers' perceptions. Qualitative results suggest that communication can backfire when managers go through the motions of process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
physically and emotionally, about these events? How did they motivate you going forward? What are 1-2 lowlights from your experience? It could be that one time you really thought the company was dead or when one of your best employees... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by their competitors. This... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
several measures of religious belief and practice, outperformed competitors located elsewhere. These firms make “greater social contributions, provide greater employee protection, and have higher entertainment expenses, more patents, and... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
on screen. Harvard Business School’s Amit Goldenberg worked with seven other researchers, including Airbnb executives, to evaluate online strategies for mitigating loneliness. Goldenberg’s findings offer insights for managers and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
informing and connecting the buyers, users and sellers of technology. One of CNET Networks' first employees and senior executives, with past responsibilities including COO, CFO and Vice Chairman, Bonnie assumed his current role in 2000.... View Details
- 15 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others
with Stanford University Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor Sinan Aral of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and two LinkedIn employees and recent Stanford and MIT Ph.D. graduates Karthik Rajkumar and Guillaume Saint-Jacques,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
agencies, and compared prosocial and standard job postings with the same skill requirements—some 27,000 of them. To test the veracity of their work, the authors cross-referenced employee reviews from the website Glassdoor. They also... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Jan 2022
- What Do You Think?
Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?
a board member, I’ve unfortunately had to confront these issues. The McDonald’s board faced these issues in October 2019. The company’s CEO at the time, Steve Easterbrook, was found to have “engaged in a consensual relationship with an View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules
Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
- 14 Apr 2022
- Op-Ed
Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned
burned out. The virtual meeting that runs back-to-back has shed light on the need for mini-breaks and recovery time. The result of the remote work environment, in some industries, is that leaders believe that employees are accessible... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
the benefits of the “work-from-anywhere” movement for both companies and workers. “There’s been brain drain from small towns into large urban clusters, but I don't think we have seen the spatial redistribution that we could potentially see because of work from... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 17 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage
workers are more prone to feeling this way than others. Some high achievers, for instance, flail about in feedback voids that make them doubt their worth. The essay cites an employee who was waiting for six... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
consultancies and accounting firms already do this by putting “cohorts” of new employees on similar professional development tracks, with shared workshops, activities, and milestones designed to strengthen their connection. “People are... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
2021, the firm had 36 employees and $18 billion in assets. That year, its flagship small-company fund outperformed 99 percent of competitors. “An important question for organizations is how to avoid group thinking in teams. ” As Brown... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
ways. A retired engineer threw himself into doing hands-on engineering work as a volunteer for the new community center being built in town. Finding a new source for valued affirmation: Retirees often miss the recognition and positive View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology... View Details