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Address ‘Caregiving Crisis,’ Study Finds David Harrison 16 Jan 2019 | The Wall Street Journal A third of US workers have left a job due to caregiving responsibilities Corinne Purtill 18 Jan 2019 | Quartz at Work The Stealth View Details
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
kutaytanir It’s no surprise that business executives make more money than lower-level employees. But when that pay disparity between a CEO and the average worker is perceived as unfair, the result may be more than unhappy workers: A... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
most recently-precisely the individuals who would recognize it is a gift. The effects of the gift are higher for workers with lower historical wages, and in fact it increases productivity more than it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2020
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Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance
By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can decrease their service time, up to a point, in order to complete work... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Knowledge Work; Discretion; Workload; Employees; Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity
KC, Diwas S., Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki, and Francesca Gino. "Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance." Management Science 66, no. 10 (October 2020).
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Research Services - Faculty & Research
benchmarking are available for emerging technology and the latest productivity hardware. Cultural expertise Our regional research centers in Latin America , Asia-Pacific , Japan , India , Europe , Shanghai , Istanbul, and California... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
about how poor operational decisions create unnecessary complications that lead to quality problems and lower labor productivity and, in general, make life hard for retail employees." Ton is interested in demonstrating how operations... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
their worth from their multisided platforms (MSPs), which facilitate interactions or transactions between parties. Many MSPs are more valuable than companies in the same industries that provide only products or services: For instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Research - Global
Gilman and Nina Roussille This paper provides causal evidence on how wage inequality among workers affects the labor movement using three complementary research designs: a vignette experiment with union organizers, a natural policy... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
important as other inputs in production and can create significant competitive advantage” over each other and across a wide variety of countries and sectors, says Sadun. “Originally it was like a bet—can we quantify management?” she says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
flexibility and how to redesign management practices to make flexible hybrid work more productive and innovative. How Not to Bankrupt Your Family Professor Lauren Cohen + More Info – Less Info In this session, we will explore pitfalls of... View Details
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
minutes—during the pandemic’s early weeks. Employees also participated in more meetings, though for less time than they did before COVID-19 sent many workers home. “There is a general sense that we never stop being in front of Zoom or... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
three activities. But while that distribution did reflect how workers spent their productive time, the fact that their total productive time was significantly less than their... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 21 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change
Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
elicit reciprocity in the form of greater effort or productivity." Malhotra and his research team, however, found that paying more only led to greater productivity when the additional pay was presented as a gift, with no strings attached.... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
rated the productivity of workers on a seven-point scale from “unsatisfactory” to “excellent” in categories such as ability, cooperation, job knowledge, creativity, productivity, and quality of work. Hybrid... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 09 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
new recruits. They often even instructed salesmen how to stand while talking with a customer, or how to hand over the pen at "closing." The revolution in selling had consequences beyond individual firms. The growth of systematic methods of sales management... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard