Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (105) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 2 of 105 Results →
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Subordinating Humanism: How Colliding Beliefs About a Living Wage Shape Personal Fulfillment and 'Professional-Class' Identities in Working-Class Jobs

By: Lumumba Seegars, Serenity S. Lee, Erin M. Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan
In a society dominated by market-based ideology and management practices that prioritize financial considerations, some organizations are shifting toward humanistic ideology and practices that emphasize human welfare. To examine this transformation in pay-setting, we... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Moral Sensibility; Wages; Welfare; Performance Expectations; Identity; Employee Relationship Management; Management Practices and Processes
Related
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

imposes on society by securing subsidies, driving employees toward public welfare systems, creating urban sprawl, and destroying jobs in competing operations. Thus, juxtaposing these customer savings against the estimate cited by Fishman... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
  • 29 Apr 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

  • Article

Reclaim Your Commute: Getting To and From Work Doesn't Have to be Soul Crushing

By: Francesca Gino, Bradley Staats, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Julia J. Lee and Jochen I. Menges
Every day, millions of people around the world face long commutes to work. In the United States alone, approximately 25 million workers spend more than 90 minutes each day getting to and from their jobs. And yet few people enjoy their commutes. This distaste for... View Details
Keywords: Commuting; Welfare; Attitudes; Satisfaction; Performance Productivity
Related
  • 21 May 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon

  • Web

Faculty & Research

America, he reflected on these challenges and the long-term implications of the company’s broad-based ownership model. HBS Working Paper Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing By: Chiara Farronato ,... View Details
  • September 2020
  • Article

Relaxing Household Liquidity Constraints Through Social Security

By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
More than a quarter of working-age households in the United States do not have sufficient savings to cover their expenditures after a month of unemployment. Recent proposals suggest giving workers early access to a small portion of their future Social Security benefits... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Personal Finance; Employment; Welfare; Insurance; Government Legislation
Related
  • Web

The “Hawthorne Effect” – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Employee Negativity Is Like Wildfire. Manage It Before It Spreads.

Goldenberg says, where the crisis can be framed as an opportunity for learning and improvement. If remote employees felt isolated during the pandemic, for example, a leader using a repurposing strategy might have reminded workers that... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Technology & Operations Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Working Paper Designing Consent: Choice Architecture and Consumer Welfare in Data Sharing By: Chiara Farronato ,... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams

novel.” When it comes to building good rapport, the gender makeup of managers and their teams matters, Tamayo’s research shows. Overall, cisgender men manage other men well, and cisgender women manage other women well. When the gender of managers and View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Introduction – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

School, and his protégé Fritz J. Roethlisberger led a landmark study of worker behavior at Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T. Unprecedented in scale and scope, the nine-year study took place at the massive Hawthorne Works... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

mental health, especially people who want to be good leaders? Cohen: Your workers are with you eight hours a day, but what happens in the other 16 is going to have a huge impact on what occurs during the eight that they’re with you.... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian & Xiaoxue Zhao
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

I. Norton , Alison Wood Brooks , Leslie K. John , and Julia Minson Julie Yen Organizational Behavior, 2024 Placement: Boston University, Questrom School of Business, Management and Organizations Dissertation: Workers and the Pursuit of... View Details
  • Web

Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Next Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Illumination Studies and Relay... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

His research comes at a time when an increasing number of people report being worn out on the job, with 43 percent of middle managers reporting burnout in the US and 70 percent of C-suite workers considering quitting to search for jobs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

The Hawthorne Plant – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction Next The Hawthorne Plant The Hawthorne Plant Any company controlling many thousand workers tends to lack any satisfactory... View Details
  • Web

A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Next A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana A New Vision Fritz J. Roethlisberger, ca. 1958. Yousuf Karsh, photographer. © YOUSUF KARSH The Hawthorne Studies began in 1924 as an attempt to improve View Details