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- 2012
- Working Paper
Pay Dispersion and Work Performance
By: Alessandro Bucciol and Marco Piovesan
The effect of intra-firm pay dispersion on work performance is controversial and the empirical evidence is mixed. High pay dispersion may act as an extra incentive for employees' effort or it may reduce motivation and team cohesiveness. These effects can also coexist... View Details
Bucciol, Alessandro, and Marco Piovesan. "Pay Dispersion and Work Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-075, February 2012.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
By: Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Working Conditions; Service Delivery; Performance Productivity; Financial Services Industry; Japan
Staats, Bradley R., and Francesca Gino. "Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-015, August 2010. (Revised May 2011.)
- August 2009 (Revised February 2011)
- Background Note
Managing Organizational Human Capital: Research Resources
By: Boris Groysberg and Ann Cullen
This technical note provides a list of library resources for researching various aspects of managing human capital within organizations. View Details
Keywords: Human Resources; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizations; Research
Groysberg, Boris, and Ann Cullen. "Managing Organizational Human Capital: Research Resources." Harvard Business School Background Note 410-045, August 2009. (Revised February 2011.)
- November 2007
- Supplement
Differences at Work: Ben (C)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
In Differences at Work: Ben (C) 9-408-044 Ben shares the remark with his bosses who let Ben decide whether to report the incident to Human Resources. He decides not to, but several years later he still regrets his inaction. View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Ben (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-044, November 2007.
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
At first glance, Hamilton Hall looks the same as it has since the student residence was constructed eighty years ago. The building, home to 72 MBA students, blends seamlessly into the classic Georgian architecture of the HBS campus and frames a well-manicured courtyard... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- News
HBS Startup Turns Unused Gift Cards Into Cash
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Merton Receives Prestigious Award
University Professor Robert Merton, a member of the HBS faculty since 1988 and cowinner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London. He was honored for his distinguished work in the fields of research... View Details
- Profile
Brett Lindsay Laffel
three days after graduation." At MLB, Brett joined the Labor Relations department while the collective bargaining agreement with the players' association was taking place in 2006. Later, she joined the Baseball Operations department... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
graduate school, earned a master's in education, and is currently substitute teaching in anticipation of a full-time position. As the father of now seven-year-old Alex, Cassell has already found satisfaction contributing to his son's "confidence and interest in... View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
more to say. With that, she gets up to return to work: “L’aventure Jeannette continue.” France’s Labor Landscape France is well known for its pro-labor policies, which include an average of six weeks of vacation, a 35-hour workweek, and... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
said that, any move to territorial needs to be ... thought through quite carefully," he advised. Opponents of territorial taxation, including organized labor and some liberal Democrats, argue that the solution to the problem isn’t to... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
into their products and services, from sources (e.g., labor conditions in paper plants where company stationery is manufactured) to applications and ultimate fate (e.g., how used computers are disposed of). Whether this is called... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
Markets don't just determine prices, they also determine who gets what. For commodities, the price does most of the work, but many markets, like labor markets, don't clear by price alone. You don't hire just anyone who is willing to work... View Details
- 25 Oct 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Vodafone’s Innovative Approach to Advanced Technologies
Keywords: Telecommunications
- 21 Dec 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study
Keywords: by Christine Exley & Stephen Terry
- September 2020
- Article
Relaxing Household Liquidity Constraints Through Social Security
By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
More than a quarter of working-age households in the United States do not have sufficient savings to cover their expenditures after a month of unemployment. Recent proposals suggest giving workers early access to a small portion of their future Social Security benefits... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Personal Finance; Employment; Welfare; Insurance; Government Legislation
Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin. "Relaxing Household Liquidity Constraints Through Social Security." Art. 104243. Journal of Public Economics 189 (September 2020).
- July 2022
- Article
The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao and Edison Yu
Using new employer-employee matched data, this paper investigates the impact of uncertainty, as measured by idiosyncratic stock market volatility, on individual outcomes. We find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level... View Details
Keywords: Employment Risk; Consumption; Employment; Risk and Uncertainty; System Shocks; Insurance; Household; Spending
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao, and Edison Yu. "The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households." Journal of Financial Economics 145, no. 1 (July 2022): 85–104. (2023 Fama-DFA Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in Asset Pricing, 2nd place.)
- November 2004
- Teaching Note
Spain: Straddling the Atlantic (TN)
By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Teaching Note to (9-705-006). View Details
- February 2004
- Article
Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Elizabeth A. Schatzel, Giovanni B. Moneta and Steven J. Kramer
This exploratory study investigated leader behaviors related to perceived leader support, encompassing both instrumental and socioemotional support. The study first established that leader support, proposed to be a key feature of the work environment for creativity,... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M., Elizabeth A. Schatzel, Giovanni B. Moneta, and Steven J. Kramer. "Leader Behaviors and the Work Environment for Creativity: Perceived Leader Support." Leadership Quarterly 15, no. 1 (February 2004): 5–32.
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking and Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow, saw another catastrophe on the horizon: widespread business failure and a bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: April White