coworker relationships - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

the subject in a new paper: Can Wages Buy Honesty? The Relationship between Relative Wages and Employee Theft. She cowrote the study, published in the September issue of the Journal of Accounting Research, with Clara Xiaoling Chen, an... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

10 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

can focus on that, it is the way to win." One way to be a good value creator: give coworkers credit where credit is due. The need to appear smart can lead managers to cast blame on others for missteps or to claim an employee's idea... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty, also increased the incidence of violent crimes and property... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

Black: Career Development in the New Economy," said newly minted MBAs should be able to learn quickly, handle problems, and build relationships with coworkers over workplace divisions. The panelists... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

Entrepreneurship," a working paper coauthored with Jesper B. Sørensen of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Nanda examines the question of whether a person is more likely to pursue an entrepreneurial activity if some of his or her View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

press An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://ceo.usc.edu/book/doing_research_that_is_useful.html Business Network Transformation in Action Authors: Marco Iansiti and Ross Sullivan Publication: In Business Network Transformation: Strategies to Reconfigure... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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 their own guilt and... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

seniors—a parent, an in-law. Well over 50 percent of workers report they have some caregiving obligation. The question becomes: Do the terms and conditions of their employment and the nature of that obligation mesh? A lot of traditional expectations of employers, but... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

about someone, the more you will probably like them and the closer you feel. Without such sharing, especially in remote work, you end up with a one-dimensional transactional relationship that is only about the task at hand. Unlike in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of age-matched coworkers participating in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

purposeful vulnerability produced deeper, more intimate coworker relationships in which they could express a broader repertoire of personal qualities—qualities that were responsive to the dictates of their... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

equity unequally based on different contributions, and also crafted a founder's agreement where founders who did not participate in the company full-time would surrender their equity. These two cases sparked my interest in how the past View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

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