Knowledge Workers - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

University’s Ran Abramitzky and Princeton University’s Leah Boustan—among the most knowledgeable economists on the topic of US immigration—reached a similar conclusion by examining the effects of anti-immigration laws passed in the 1920s.... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

knowledge workers confronted with a barrage of data and distractions delivered by new information technologies? A reluctance on the part of managers to relinquish "ownership" over activities and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

intense research with individual employees, try to make them partners in the research," she said. (HBS professor Nava Ashraf discussed this idea of co-producing knowledge in the Working Knowledge article,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

hiring in order to attract a sufficient number of applicants to meet their needs. They will also need to relax the many superfluous conditions they have applied in evaluating job seekers. Abandoning business models based on the assumption that low-wage View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

generation up through successful implementation. I maintain that creativity is possible and desirable in all forms of work, no matter what people are doing. In particular, knowledge workers require... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

requiring folks to come back. I’ve been talking to the largest technology firms about this: They’ve created task forces to think about how they want to bring people back to the office, when, and why. Based on my own research, especially in View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

(Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Many elite companies already use their building’s efficiency or grandeur to send a signal to customers and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

08 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

workers in tech” (ages 30 and up). Does younger mean better? This trend in the NFL and the business world begs the question: Are younger workers better than their older counterparts? Research from Wharton... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

Hare said, “Should we do better in investing in people? They’re an asset of course we should!” Guy Higgins and Lewisman agreed, with conditions: “ (as with the GI Bill) make the offer to men and women who have some life experience and emotional maturity (and ensure)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

self-esteem), increasing long-term disparities in incomes, a negative impact on the ability of disadvantaged workers to invest, and an ultimate decline even in economic activity in net job-exporting countries. Some argued that these... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

they are not executed well at the stores." Boots on the ground matter a lot. "When there aren't enough workers on the selling floor, it's those ‘boring supply-chain activities' that are affected first," Ton observes. "If employees are... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

recognized Robert E. Downing's advice that we may need to define work before asking the question. For knowledge workers, "it is very difficult to determine when the workers are actually working Maybe we... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-044 ZBJ: Building a Global Outsourcing Platform for Knowledge Workers (A) ZBJ.com (ZBJ), an online platform that connects... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

workers to attend when sick, including work overload, lack of backup, and understaffing. Some occupational cultures have the same effect, glorifying “toughing it out” as an indicator of work commitment. Finally, we can’t discount the fact... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Resource Management Review Cross-boundary Teaming for Innovation: Integrating Research on Teams and Knowledge in Organizations By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Cross-boundary teaming, within and across... View Details

16 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

workers there. Was that a surprise? A: Again, bear in mind that we met a very limited and select group of people. I think different faculty had different reactions based on our initial personal expectations, but given the high quality of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

interests of the United States,” and “opposes undue burden on members of our community.” As of this writing, the signatories include some 50 Nobel Laureates and more than 14,800 faculty members at US colleges and universities. Harvard Business School Working View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Co-locating knowledge View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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