Hybrid Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2022
News

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Illustration by Dana Smith Illustration by Dana Smith Throughout your work at HBS and HKS, you’ve studied the changing media landscape from several angles. What are some of the major challenges to sustainability that local newspapers... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems. Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

that “Gathering direct and original facts is a tedious and dif cult task, and it is not surprising that such work is avoided.” For the 50th JAR Conference, we introduce a framework to help researchers understand the complementary value of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Chapter 11 doesn’t give companies a free pass, however. Cases... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

have also seen a new type of platform company emerge, which we call hybrids. A hybrid is a company that has both an innovation and a transaction platform operating simultaneously within the organization. In some cases they’re deeply... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

Racial Asymmetries, and Team Learning Environment: Effects on Performance Authors:Robin J. Ely, Irene Padavic, and David A. Thomas Publication:Organization Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper argues that learning in cross-race interactions is critical for View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account system long practiced in Japan,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2025
Podcast

Cal Newport on slow productivity and next-wave AI

Joe Fuller welcomes back the Georgetown computer scientist and leading observer of knowledge work, who reprises his argument against busyness as the default mode. Also, cracking the productivity code, parsing AI's potential, and better work-life balance. View Details

18 Dec 2024
Podcast

Nicholas Bloom on the unbundled workplace

The Stanford economist explains the momentum behind the work-from-home trend, how to manage a hybrid staff, and the new workforce geography. Also, the tech-driven evolution of remote work and the rise of the CHRO. View Details

17 Jul 2024
Podcast

Jacob Morgan on managing the new normal

The future-of-work trendwatcher parses leadership strategies, the tradeoffs of hybrid work, AI adoption, skills-based hiring, and the foundations of a good job. View Details

12 Feb 2025
Podcast

Ed Glaeser on Cities, Work, and Why America Struggles to Build

The Harvard urban economist assesses the post-Covid health of cities, rural development, zoning and the stagnation of the U.S. housing industry, the impact of AI, and more. View Details

25 Sep 2024
Podcast

Collective counsel: Corporate law's changing workforce and culture

Vinson and Elkins' Keith Fullenweider on recruiting team players, boosting collaboration and soft skills through targeted training and mentorship, prioritizing mental health and work-life balance, automating judiciously, and making return-to-office work. View Details

03 Jul 2024
Podcast

Adaptable and inclusive: Kraft Heinz’s brand of workforce

Melissa Werneck, EVP and global chief people officer for the multinational food and beverage firm, on reskilling for web marketing and personalization, AI, hybrid work, and collaboration across time zones and cultures. Also, why diversity is good business for consumer... View Details

08 May 2025
Podcast

Upwork’s Hayden Brown on bridging volatility with contingency

"Freelance by choice" can sound like a rationalization—or putting on a brave face—but has the contract labor market improved for white-collar workers, as more, particularly younger professionals, opt in? A look at the benefits for both sides of the bargain and how AI... View Details

Web

Bharti Kher The Intermediary Family 2018 | About

Bourgeois. Her surrealistic works explore such themes as identity and gender, and her hybrid sculptures are often composed of half-female forms. As Kanu Agrawal has written, in Kher's View Details

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

interactions: hybrid or flexible spaces; train people differently; allow work-from-home time; set a tone and work culture that tries to deprogram us from our natural instincts to respond the way these... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

04 Dec 2024
Podcast

Hospitality at work: Bridging opportunity and innovation

How do you foster inclusion, economic mobility, and a sense of purpose across a global organization with both franchise and direct employees? Laura Fuentes, Hilton CHRO, on supporting frontline workers and promoting from within in a traditionally high-turnover... View Details

23 Apr 2025
Podcast

ManpowerGroup’s Jonas Prising on the new global talent equation

The staffing giant’s chairman and CEO lays out the opportunities and risks in the fast-changing and fragmented labor market. Riding the genAI wave, addressing workers’ career development needs, RTO and flex-work, international talent flows, and the up-skilling... View Details

Portrait Project

Sylvie Tran

companies to help enable enduring positive impact on developing countries. I want to help the world transition to clean and efficient energy by convincing everyone in my community to buy hybrid cars. That afternoon in the leper village, a... View Details

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