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  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance

Employers looking to fill critical job vacancies may want to turn to a largely untapped pool of willing workers: people with criminal records. Employers are often wary of hiring workers with past... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 05 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

assesses America’s 250 largest public companies as ranked by Fortune magazine. “All employers are not created equal in terms of the type of springboard they provide for advancement and that's something that workers and View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 17 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men

afterwards, their employment prospects were pretty dismal,” says Mark Egan, an assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. Egan details the misconduct findings in a new working paper, “When Harry Fired Sally: The Double... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 31 May 2023
  • HBS Case

From Prison Cell to Nike’s C-Suite: The Journey of Larry Miller

Miller shares how education helped him escape a life of crime, how keeping his secret came at a huge personal price, and why employers should give the formerly incarcerated a chance to succeed. Directed by Jamal Meneide, a filmmaker based... View Details
Keywords: by Jamal Meneide; Entertainment & Recreation; Consumer Products
  • 09 Apr 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

iPhoto Companies continually test ways to incent employees to perform more effectively, often turning to worker-motivation tools such as bonuses, “up or out” employee ranking tournaments, and employee of the month rewards. Behavioral scientists warn that these... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

its data with the research team. Gallani and her coauthors were then able to match the ideas proposed by the workers with the type of employment contracts they were working under. In researching about 512 employees between 2014 and 2016,... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 03 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

Most of us would like to impress the people we work with. But new research from Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Alexandra Feldberg finds that, for women managers, this aspiration can undermine performance. Feldberg discovered that women managers in a... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products
  • March 2023
  • Article

Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets

By: Marios Kokkodis and Sam Ransbotham
Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value of... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Analysis; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 30 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

Employers are dangling all sorts of sparkling lures to capture hot job candidates in the battle for top talent: Generous compensation. Stock options. Lofty titles. But Harvard Business School research suggests that many companies fail to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

    Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets

    Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value... View Details
    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Work and Well-being: A Global Perspective

    By: Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, and Council Members: A. Blankson, A. Clark, C. Cooper, H. James, C. Krekel, J. Lim, P. Litchfield, J. Moss, M. I. Norton, M. Rojas, G. Ward and A.V. Whillans
    Work and employment play a central role in most people’s lives. In OECD countries, for example, people spend around a third of their waking hours engaged in paid work. We not only spend considerable amounts of our time at work, employment and workplace quality also... View Details
    Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Happiness; Policy; Global Range
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    • Summer 2019
    • Article

    The Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement

    By: Jonas Heese
    I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to experience SEC enforcement actions.... View Details
    Keywords: SEC Enforcement; Government Preferences; Voters' Interests; Political Influence; Employment; Public Opinion; Government Administration; Governance Compliance; Political Elections
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    • 15 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    John-Paul Ferguson, Stanford Graduate School of Business

    • 18 Jan 2016
    • News

    Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

    • September 2023 (Revised July 2024)
    • Case

    Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey Barkas
    Founded by a formerly incarcerated job seeker, Honest Jobs' mission is to be the hub where people with criminal records come to build careers and employers come to find great talent. Honest Jobs faced early challenges as a two-sided platform for justice-involved job... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Recruitment; Entrepreneurial Finance; Selection and Staffing; Digital Platforms; Job Search; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Employment Industry; United States; Colorado; Ohio; Texas
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    • November 2022
    • Article

    The Psychosocial Value of Employment: Evidence from a Refugee Camp

    By: Reshmaan Hussam, Erin M. Kelley, Gregory Lane and Fatima Zahra
    Employment may be important to wellbeing for reasons beyond its role as an income source. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in refugee camps in Bangladesh. We involve 745 individuals in a field experiment with three arms: a... View Details
    Keywords: Psychosocial Wellbeing; Employment; Refugees; Well-being
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    • 17 Jan 2019
    • News

    Why Business Should Support Employees Who are Caregivers

    • December 4, 2023
    • Comment

    The Great Resignation, Employment, and Wages in Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra and Louis-Jonas Heizlsperger
    Notwithstanding concerns about staffing levels and burnout in health care, federal wage and employment data does not support the suggestion that a COVID-19 pandemic-related spike in quitting has had an enduring impact for hospitals or physician offices. Employment in... View Details
    Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Employment; Wages; Health Industry
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      Livia Alfonsi

      Livia is a development economist whose research focuses on labor market frictions and determinants of labor market participation in low-income settings, with a particular emphasis on barriers to youth employment and female labor market participation. In a separate line... View Details
      • 11 Jul 2016
      • HBS Case

      Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

      seen in an executive program at Harvard get a standing ovation,” Austin says, adding that some listeners were driven to tears. “It was quite an experience.” CIOs were excited by how the concept fits together, matching employers in need of... View Details
      Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology