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  • 03 Apr 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo, and Xina Li
  • 01 May 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

Original Post We all have had conversations over the last few weeks with people working from home for the first time while sheltering from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2012
  • Article

Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

By: B. Staats and F. 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: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning
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  • Research Summary

Working on paper on how to restructure the public and private market for home mortgages in the US

the paper analyzes the main rationales for subsidizing homeownership from an international perspective, offers criteria for who should be subsidized in the future, discusses how these governmental subsidies should be implemented and how the private market for mortgage... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Temptation at Work

Keywords: by Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser & Marco Piovesan
  • 24 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

proposals, which would include the wind down of two government sponsored enterprises—Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Between them they generated more than half of all US mortgage credit before failing in September 2008. According to a new paper View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 08 Jul 2015
  • What Do You Think?

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

would have you, and themselves, believe in how 'hard' they work it's about productivity in spite of how workers report about how hard any of us 'feel' we work." TNoble101, arguing for better economic justice for overtime workers,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women at Work

Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with their spouse or partner to fighting... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
  • 01 Feb 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?

hybrid—version that gained acceptance (at least for coders) in tech companies like Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems 30 years ago. The pandemic surge in work-from-home has morphed in some organizations into hybrid work strategies that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

OK, so they could just as easily have seen a post from Larry Page online if they had still been working after 5 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. Working View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

wind up just as happy in adulthood as the children of moms who stayed home. Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn hopes the findings bring a big sigh of relief for guilt-ridden mothers who either have to hold down a job to make ends meet or simply choose to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • September 28, 2021
  • Article

12 Questions About Hybrid Work, Answered

By: Tsedal Neeley
As we move into the next phase of the pandemic, companies are grappling with whether and how to bring their employees back into the office after working from home extensively. According to multiple surveys, most people want a mix of in-person and remote work, and some... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Remote Work; Transition; Employees; Job Design and Levels; Organizational Structure
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  • 15 May 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

salary and more concerned about their work contract: "What are you expecting from me?" We had a wonderful session on working in the professional services arena.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • March–April 2019
  • Article

A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Evidence from Narayana Health's Journey from India to the Cayman Islands

By: Budhaditya Gupta and Tarun Khanna
Internationalizing firms often find developing host-country resources challenging as they simultaneously attempt to replicate the resources that worked well in their home country and adapt them to fit the context of the host country. On the basis of a longitudinal... View Details
Keywords: Recombination; Internationalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; India; Cayman Islands
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  • 02 Jan 2018
  • Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

of life in the home--should be viewed as a miserable chore. I look forward to coming home from work and spending time mindfully cooking fresh foods and ... yes, even mindfully... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

student Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson, executive professor of management at Northeastern University. While digital technology has made workers more efficient and accessible than ever before, many companies have been slow to let employees View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 23 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?

than a Blockbuster store, stocking a limited number of popular movies? Intrigued with these questions, HBS assistant professor Anita Elberse and associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee analyzed the distribution of revenues in the U.S. View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation
  • January 2009
  • Article

From Regional Star to Global Leader

By: Nitin Nohria
Yang Jianguo was recently promoted from country manager for China to global head of product development at a staid French perfume maker. He was chosen for his technical smarts and his knowledge of emerging markets—a critical avenue for growth, given that sales in the... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Leadership Development; Management Teams; Emerging Markets; Product Development; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; China; Paris
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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

The following excerpt is taken from the "Lessons of Restructuring" section of Gilson's introduction to Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring. Although the case studies in this book span a wide range of companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

at work and at home: For a while, many mothers and fathers brought their jobs home because they had no choice. First, the good news: While much has been written about how the pandemic was enormously taxing... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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