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- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
might not take much effort to train ourselves to engage in thoughts during the commute that prepare us for the role ahead. Knowing that a long commute can make or break the job for some workers, the research team hopes business leaders... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
this a priority, nagging them like worried grandmothers and sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings can rattle View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
Harvard Business School; Ellie Shuo Jin and Leslie K. Rice, doctoral students at The University of Texas at Austin; and Robert A. Josephs, professor and head of the Clinical Neuroendocrinology Laboratory at UT Austin. Employers may be able to reduce cheating and other... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 It's Not the Size of the Gift; It's How You Present It: New Evidence on Gift Exchange from a Field Experiment By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Behavioral economists argue that above-market wages elicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Leadership Principles for Managing in the Time of Coronavirus
feel they can contribute to overcoming the uncertainty, overcoming the crisis. Engaging employees in this way will also reduce that rumor mill, give confidence to them that they will then project in turn to... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
options such as cost leadership, differentiation, or focus. But the book is full of examples of companies that have dual and even triple advantages. The have an advantage in attracting talent and they charge customers a premium price. In fact, it is precisely because... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
were able to create a very powerful culture." Conant established two performance metrics to measure progress, one based on economic value, measured by shareholder returns compared to competitor companies; and the other based on social value, measured by the Gallup... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
had performed well at an easier job (managing a relatively calm airport), while others had performed less well at a harder job (managing an unruly airport). As with the admissions officers, the executives consistently favored employees... View Details
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
complete an online survey that included questions about the frequency of their networking activity, and how it made them feel. For example, "When I engage in professional networking, I usually feel " was followed by a choice of several... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
they are “a good fit.” But that approach does a disservice to both the employee and the business, Frei and Gino say. The pair recently taught a short, intensive course for MBA students, “Anatomy of a Badass,” about learning to be... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
is revealed to students so the unfolding of events keeps students interested and engaged in how to solve the various problems that arise, including a near mutiny. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
Why did you come in late on Tuesday? Did you really need an hour and a half for lunch on Wednesday? Why wasn't that report done by Thursday? For most of us, justifying our schedules is an expected part of the job. But what employee hasn't... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
maintaining the organization's highly valued culture. One policy intended to support that goal is to require that those working from home maintain the same schedule as those working from an office. Remote work raises questions: What effect does it have on View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan incorporating objective and subjective criteria. In principle, such plans could motivate employees to perform both at a high level,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
explores how language shapes the ways in which employees who work in global organizations communicate and negotiate linguistic and cultural differences. Bringing together 650 interviews conducted across Rakuten’s locations in Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2017
- Op-Ed
Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs
Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
practices that respondents judge to be less defensible. Using three different estimation methods, we find that the proportion of respondents that have engaged in these practices is surprisingly high relative to respondents' own estimates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
Knitting together a workforce with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and other demographic differences is challenging even for experienced managers, who must socialize those employees into the organization and also help them form new work... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
a context apart from the complexity and sensitivity of their own company; this allows executives to engage in important discussions about, for example, risk trade-offs and relationships with peers, subjects that might be too sensitive in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
term whims of the POTUS who will be out of office at some point.” Richard Eckel commented, “Screw the politics; run your business and innovate a strong brand into new markets Start with engaging the markets in Europe to build what sells... View Details