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The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States

By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
Even though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess... View Details
Keywords: Occupational Health; Health Costs; Mortality; Applied Optimization; Health
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  • 01 Apr 2015
  • News

Sustainability Reporting: The Lawyer’s Response

  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Ben Gettinger; Apparel & Accessories; Retail
  • 21 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

Editor’s Note: The below post is part of our Alumni for Impact series, which features alumni who are making a difference in the social sector, specifically in K-12 education, impact investing, nonprofit supportive services and View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54887 forthcoming Production and Operations Management The Operational Value of Social Media Information By: Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • 06 Feb 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance

    Keywords: by Wei Cai and Susanna Gallani; Manufacturing
    • June 2021
    • Article

    The Role of Beliefs in Driving Gender Discrimination

    By: Katherine B. Coffman, Christine L. Exley and Muriel Niederle
    While there is ample evidence of discrimination against women in the workplace, it can be difficult to understand what factors contribute to discriminatory behavior. We use an experiment to both document discrimination and unpack its sources. First, we show that, on... View Details
    Keywords: Gender Discrimination; Behavioral Decision Making; Gender; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Economics; Behavior; Decision Making
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    • 20 Mar 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940

    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora
    • 14 May 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Experts Listen to Other Experts? Field Experimental Evidence from Scientific Peer Review

    Keywords: by Misha Teplitskiy, Hardeep Ranu, Gary Gray, Michael Menietti, Eva Guinan, and Karim R. Lakhani
    • 25 May 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace

    Keywords: by Grace Gu and Feng Zhu; Service
    • 1996
    • Article

    Evidence to Support the Componential Model of Creativity: Secondary Analyses of Three Studies

    By: R. Conti, H. Coon and T. M. Amabile
    Amabile's (1983a, 1983b, 1988) componential model of creativity predicts that three major components contribute to creativity: skills specific to the task domain, general (cross-domain) creativity-relevant skills, and task motivation. If all three components actually... View Details
    Keywords: Theory; Creativity; Research
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    When Do Individuals Give Up Agency? The Role of Decision Avoidance

    By: Holly Dykstra, Christine L. Exley and Muriel Niederle
    A common policy problem is that individuals reject recommended options and insist on making their own choices. Via a large-scale experiment, we document and investigate what factors contribute to this preference for agency. Our main results show that individuals’... View Details
    Keywords: Choice; Decision Making; Policy; Cognition and Thinking
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    • May 2011
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    The Power of Small Wins

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
    What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an analysis of knowledge workers' diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Performance Productivity; Attitudes; Behavior; Happiness; Perception; Trust; Time Management; Resource Allocation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Managerial Roles
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    • July 2018
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    Marketplaces, Markets, and Market Design

    By: Alvin E. Roth
    Marketplaces are often small parts of large markets, and both markets and marketplaces come in many varieties. Market design seeks to understand what marketplaces must accomplish to enable different kinds of markets. Marketplaces can have varying degrees of success,... View Details
    Keywords: Labor Market; Pricing; Market Design; Markets; Economics
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      Lynda M. Applegate

      Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

      • Research Summary

      Simultaneous Distinction, Democratization and Omnivorism Effects: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dynamic Symbolic Boundaries in Counterfeit Consumption Networks

      Sociologists have long examined the interactive relationship between social structure, taste and power.  This literature has overwhelmingly fallen into three, ostensibly competing, theoretical “camps”: Distinction, where high-status consumers use... View Details
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      Faculty & Research

      bias with naive beliefs. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each with a different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty. Collected penalties are rebated lump sum. When households have homogeneous present bias, , the... View Details
      • 07 Sep 2007
      • What Do You Think?

      Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

      Summing Up How can business schools reprofessionalize management? The responses to this month's column can be characterized in several ways: 1) Business schools, particularly those regarded as being the "elite," by their very nature have View Details
      Keywords: by Jim Heskett
      • 2014
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      Are Patents Creative or Destructive?

      By: Tom Nicholas
      Current debate over patent aggregation has led to renewed interest in the long-standing question concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Incentives; Patents; Technological Innovation; Motivation and Incentives
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