Labor Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

Caterpillar Inc., McGinn asked the adult children, “What advice do you have for employed moms, given what you experienced as a child?” Every one of these adults who grew up with a working mother delivered essentially the same message: Just chill. We’re doing great.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

May 5, 2020
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Why the Crisis Is Putting Companies at Risk of Losing Female Talent

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

There has been a massive shift in how work gets done inside many companies and the global pivot to working remotely will likely change how many think about face time and rigid work schedules. Might these changes benefit women? The authors argue that will depend on how... View Details

Keywords: Coronavirus Pandemic; Remote Work; Flexible Work Arrangements; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Gender

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2023
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Job Design and Workers’ Wellbeing: Evidence from a Hospital Setting

By: Susanna Gallani and Jacob Riegler

This study examines the relationship between job design imbalance and workers’ well-being. We build on Simons (2005) framework for the design of high-performing jobs and develop a survey instrument to capture workers’ perceptions of their job design and work... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Job Design and Levels; Working Conditions; Perception; Work-Life Balance; Health Industry

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

research here . Related Themes: Credit Markets More Info The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer By: Marco Di Maggio & Amir Kermani SEP 2016 How can unemployment insurance serve as an automatic stabilizer to... View Details

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Knowledge Work, Craft Work, and Calling

Social critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements of work that have been... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Working Conditions; Production; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Employees

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29 Oct 2013
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Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

do a one-time, four-hour data entry task via the Internet labor market oDesk.com, which allows for online recruitment of freelancers from around the world. "Keep in mind," Malhotra said, that "all of these people previously made less than... View Details

Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette

Spring 2021
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Corporate Resilience and Response During COVID-19

By: Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim and Hui (Stacie) Wang

The coronavirus pandemic caused a sharp market decline while raising heterogeneous responses across companies related to their employees, supply chain, and repurposing of operations to provide needed products and services. We study whether during the 2020 COVID-19... View Details

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27 Sep 2018
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Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

out from under you.” Related Reading: Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation Collaborating Across Cultures What do you think of this research?... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories

09 Nov 2011
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CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

Keywords: by Kevin J. Murphy & Michael C. Jensen

17 Jan 2023
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8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

02 Apr 2024
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Employees Out Sick? Inside One Company's Creative Approach to Staying Productive

chances of filling needed jobs. Applying a mathematical model to these relational contracts, the researchers found that the optimal number of connections among managers was seven or eight. Those relationships could boost productivity by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Fashion

15 Oct 2020
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IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

engineering, and mathematics) labor market trends. And in geographic regions where competition is fiercest for IT talent, superstar performers do not earn the same high premium they once did over their average-performing peers. In short,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

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Finance - Faculty & Research

the true customer states. Second, existing state construction techniques focus primarily on summarizing characteristics related to short-term values, rather than capturing the broader behaviors that drive long-term customer value. These... View Details

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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits The system devised by the Chinese for carrying on the foreign trade was a masterpiece of wisdom. In no part of the world could operations of such magnitude be carried on with so much ease. The only... View Details

21 May 2024
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What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

leaders. This is a factor that has led to the erosion of the link between economic need and support for left wing parties. Layne: What role does globalization play in the rise of the far right? Rettl: It's related to widespread... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Acquisition (4) Knowledge Dissemination (5) Knowledge Management (40) Knowledge Sharing (14) Knowledge Use and Leverage (11) Knowledge (68) Labor and Management Relations (3) View Details

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Research - Managing the Future of Work

Reaches $4.4 Billion Valuation As Labor Market Demands Continue—And A Downturn Threat Rises Re: Joseph Fuller Joe Fuller, a professor who co-leads Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work initiative and was a founder of the... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

American chemical industries until the 1970s, when the two German firms diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from criticism, but also as opportunities for changes in... View Details

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Frameworks & Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the business environment shows how the multiple dimensions of microeconomic competitiveness in a location are interrelated. Clusters Clusters are groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and specialized institutions... View Details

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The Creative Environment Scales: The Work Environment Inventory

By: T. M. Amabile and N. Gryskiewicz

The Creative Environment Scales Work Environment Inventory (WEI) is a new paper-and-pencil instrument designed to assess stimulants and obstacles to creativity in the work environment. Unlike many instruments that are designed as comprehensive descriptions of the work... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Working Conditions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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