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Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

  • October 2014
  • Case

Honeywell and the Great Recession (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
CEO Dave Cote spent six years turning around an ailing Honeywell and in 2008 Cote and his team face a new challenge: how to respond to the Great Recession. Cote does not want to give up the gains he made in transforming and unifying Honeywell. With a fall-off in... View Details
Keywords: Layoffs; Furloughs; Downsizing; Work Sharing; Short Time Work; Recessions; Earnings Forecast; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Cost Management; Executive Compensation; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Manufacturing Industry
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  • May 2018
  • Article

Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance

By: Shelley Xin Li and Tatiana Sandino
Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of Accounting Research, to test whether an... View Details
Keywords: Information; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Creativity; Performance
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  • 05 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

control condition just kept working at the end of the day, but did not receive additional training. Over the course of one month, workers in both the reflection and sharing condition performed significantly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • June 2021
  • Article

Engineering Serendipity: When Does Knowledge Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production?

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan and Karim R. Lakhani
We investigate how knowledge similarity between two individuals is systematically related to the likelihood that a serendipitous encounter results in knowledge production. We conduct a natural field experiment at a medical research symposium, where we exogenously... View Details
Keywords: Cognitive Similarity; Innovation; Knowledge Production; Natural Field Experiment; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Relationships
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  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley studies the intersection of business and law, and is interested in how companies can use legal resources as a competitive asset. In this interview, Bagley discusses ways businesses can make ethical decisions. Tishler:... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

they have decided to give up their weekend to come up with a better idea? Would they have agreed to break the routine of Mondays working remotely to share their response in the relative privacy of the office... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

“People might be intimidated to approach the sales superstar and reveal that they are having problems because of self-image issues,” Stanton says. “And the best salespeople may want to hold on to their information because it gives them status within a firm.” In a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • September 2013 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

The Morning Star Company: Self-Management at Work

By: Francesca Gino, Bradley R. Staats, Brian J. Hall and Tiffany Y. Chang

Morning Star, a collection of affiliated companies, had grown steadily since 1970 when Chris Rufer, president and founder, started the business hauling tomatoes to processing plants in a truck. The company's main products continued to be tomato-based, including a... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Motivation and Incentives; Working Conditions; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Food; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 07 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

Zou. Including others also boosted retention, according to the research. Employees working with a CEO willing to share credit were significantly less likely to leave the firm the following year. The team... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

the work means getting the knowledge, changing your habits, and sharing it with others." That's what we're doing. You know. We've done the work. We've worked on the science.... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • October 2015
  • Article

Global Teams That Work

By: Tsedal Neeley
Many companies today rely on employees around the world, leveraging their diversity and local expertise to gain a competitive edge. However, geographically dispersed teams face a big challenge: physical separation and cultural differences can create social distance, or... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Groups and Teams; Performance; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • 17 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

sharing accurate information,” says Jordan. You Might Also Like: Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 17 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology
  • 01 May 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

distancing with our colleagues from our work teams.” On the other hand, Melanie Roberts reminds us that, “Charles Handy refers to culture as the soup we all swim about in, and that soup is thin when the ‘here’ is not a location and people... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

that internal support or shared services groups provide, such straight-across cost or numeric comparisons become meaningless. Today's successful support unit earns its keep by being a trusted partner to the business units it serves. So,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
  • 15 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

what was being modeled for sons was the idea that you share the work at home," McGinn says. Women spent about the same amount of time caring for family members, regardless of whether their moms View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

Having a Working Mom How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-ConfidenceSponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap What do you think of this research?ll Are you a working mom? Do you feel... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Feb 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?

daily visual reminders of belonging, a common purpose, and shared values and ways of working together seem to create? Is it glue that simply cannot be replicated in hybrid work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Mar 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

time management is a shared responsibility." Frode Hvaring suggested that " in order to enable employees to mange their output in terms of priorities, quality, resources available and best work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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