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  • 17 Mar 2025
  • News

Federal Layoffs Couldn’t Be Coming at a Worse Time for Workers

  • 23 Oct 2024
  • News

How Job Tasks Can Contribute to Higher Pay for Frontline Workers

  • 10 Oct 2024
  • News

Millions of Workers Are Also Juggling Caregiving. Employers Need to Rethink.

  • 20 Feb 2023
  • News

Nearly 30 Percent of Work Remains Remote as Workers Dig In

  • January 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Teaching Note

The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being (A) and (B)

By: Ashley V. Whillans
This case describes the experiences of Michael Sanders—the Chief Executive of the What Works Center for Children’s Social Care—as he led the design and implementation of a program of research aimed at improving the social care system in the United Kingdom (UK) at the... View Details
Keywords: Non-cash Compensation; Behavioral Science; Employees; Well-being; Compensation and Benefits; United Kingdom
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Whillans, Ashley V. "The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 921-021, January 2021. (Revised March 2022.)
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Zero-Sum Frames: The Paradox of Worker Satisfaction and Financial Firm Performance

By: Daniel A. Brown
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Brown, Daniel A. "Zero-Sum Frames: The Paradox of Worker Satisfaction and Financial Firm Performance." Working Paper, July 2018. (Job Market Paper.)
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • News

Awful Weather Makes for Better Workers (and More Mouse Trap Sales)

    The Biggest Mistakes Bosses Will Make With Workers Returning After Covid-19 (by Tsedal Neeley)

    There’s little doubt that how we work changed dramatically during the sudden, unexpected and extensive experiment in remote work brought on by the pandemic. Many employees, working at home, became more efficient, productive and happier; others struggled and... View Details

    • 30 Jan 2014
    • News

    Calling All Voices

    Keywords: meetings; communication; foreign workers
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • News

    Thanks to AI, Workers Are Struggling with “Fobo”—Fear of Being Obsolete

    • 15 Jun 2022
    • News

    Tech Workers Would Rather Quit than Work for Big Brother Bosses

    • May 18, 2012
    • Article

    Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss

    By: David I Levine, Michael W. Toffel and Matthew S. Johnson
    Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at little cost to employers and employees. We... View Details
    Keywords: Regulation; Occupational Safety; Evaluation; Regression; Matching; Difference In Differences; Safety; Health; Working Conditions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Advantage; Performance; Manufacturing Industry; California
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    Levine, David I., Michael W. Toffel, and Matthew S. Johnson. "Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with No Detectable Job Loss." Science 336, no. 6083 (May 18, 2012): 907–911. (Online supplement (appendix). Featured in an article by the head of US OSHA, and in U.S. News & World Report and many other news outlets. Basis of U.S. Congressional testimony on promoting safe workplaces.)
    • 20 Nov 2024
    • Podcast

    Beyond exit interviews: Knowing why workers quit makes for better job matches

    Thinking of employees as 'hiring' their jobs opens the way to a detailed analysis of worker motivations, frustrations, and long-term goals, which can reduce costly turnover and make career development a collaborative process. Harvard Business School professor Ethan... View Details
    • July 28, 2021
    • Editorial

    Critical Jobs Are Going Unfilled. 5 Things Workers Want from Employers Now

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    Keywords: Labor; Flexibility; Choice; Opportunities; Belonging; Values
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    Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Critical Jobs Are Going Unfilled. 5 Things Workers Want from Employers Now." CNN.com (July 28, 2021).
    • May 2019 (Revised October 2019)
    • Teaching Note

    ZBJ: Building a Global Outsourcing Platform for Knowledge Workers (A) and (B)

    By: Feng Zhu and Margaret Vo
    Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 618-044 and 618-046. View Details
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    Zhu, Feng, and Margaret Vo. "ZBJ: Building a Global Outsourcing Platform for Knowledge Workers (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 619-048, May 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
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    Needs and Need Satisfaction Among Clerical Workers in Complex and Routine Jobs

    By: Michael Beer
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    Beer, Michael. "Needs and Need Satisfaction Among Clerical Workers in Complex and Routine Jobs." Personnel Psychology 21, no. 2 (Summer 1968): 209–222.
    • 30 Nov 2023
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    Workers without College Degrees Can Climb the Ladder Fastest in These Industries

    • 03 Jul 2020
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    Gig Workers Are Here to Stay. It’s Time to Give Them Benefits.

    Keywords: Alex Rosenblat
    • 2012
    • Chapter

    The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

    By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
    Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
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    Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort." In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 483–502. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
    • 15 Jun 2021
    • News

    Do You Know How Much Your Coworkers Are Making? This Study Has Bad News for Workers Who Find Out

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