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Why Soft Skills Still Matter in the Age of AI | Working Knowledge
over time and later in life, but not all of a sudden.” Policymakers, educators, and employers need to better “prioritize fundamental skill development across all demographic groups and regions” via education and training programs in order... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
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and giving them direction, there are other ways in which you can make sure that progress is happening. You don’t need to physically have face time to make sure that work is getting done. In fact, in some... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
you to HBS. In 2018, I started reflecting on the big existential question of ‘what is my calling?’ It was really intimidating to think about – my main criteria were to work on problems that mattered to me, that I could have fun doing,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
you to HBS. In 2018, I started reflecting on the big existential question of ‘what is my calling?’ It was really intimidating to think about – my main criteria were to work on problems that mattered to me, that I could have fun doing,... View Details
- April 2021
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Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographical Flexibility
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Cirrus Foroughi and Barbara Larson
An emerging form of remote work allows employees to work-from-anywhere, so that the worker can choose to live in a preferred geographic location. While traditional work-from-home (WFH) programs offer the worker temporal flexibility, work-from-anywhere (WFA) programs... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Flexibility; Work-from-anywhere; Remote Work; Telecommuting; Geographic Mobility; USPTO; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance Productivity
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Cirrus Foroughi, and Barbara Larson. "Work-From-Anywhere: The Productivity Effects of Geographical Flexibility." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 4 (April 2021): 655–683.
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Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology “In tech,” Henry Tsai (MBA 2017) says, “it’s ingrained in you to ask, ‘Where can I be impactful?’” After a summer internship serving in the San Francisco Mayor’s Office, Henry’s target... View Details
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In Charts: Like Einstein, Global Inventors Bring Big Ideas Across Borders | Working Knowledge
School's Prithwiraj Choudhury. At a time when immigration has become a flashpoint in many countries, the team analysis of more 6 million patents reveals how so-called global mobile inventors have shared their expertise, especially during... View Details
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
you to HBS. In 2018, I started reflecting on the big existential question of ‘what is my calling?’ It was really intimidating to think about – my main criteria were to work on problems that mattered to me, that I could have fun doing,... View Details
- November 2020
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Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Iavor I. Bojinov and Emma Salomon
Goldman Sachs runs an annual internship for over 3,000 participants, spread across dozens of the firm's global offices. In 2020, the team brought all its resources to bear to transform the internship program into a fully virtual format in just a few short weeks. The... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Remote Operations; Remote Internship; Internship; Virtual Socialization; Human Capital Management; Human Resources; Management; Health Pandemics; Adaptation
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Iavor I. Bojinov, and Emma Salomon. "Creating a Virtual Internship at Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Case 621-035, November 2020.
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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report
Equity at Work Symposium HBS Staff Author HBS Staff Spotlight : Gulika Reddy on the power of transformative hope How does hope become a practice? As our exploration of hope traversed through overtures of its possibilities to an excavation... View Details
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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement
Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine Public Health Women's Health 24 May 2023 Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- August 2018
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Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain
By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds... View Details
Keywords: Helping; Rhythm; Prosocial Behavior; External Team Leadership; Social Construction; Time; Qualitative Methods; Field Research; Groups and Teams; Projects; Behavior; Leadership; Social and Collaborative Networks
Fisher, Colin M., Julianna Pillemer, and Teresa M. Amabile. "Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 4 (August 2018): 1524–1553.
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Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain
By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds... View Details
- July 2022
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What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition
By: Jeff Steiner and Teresa M. Amabile
Retirement means relinquishing the daily structure that work provides and the career-dependent meanings that it offers life narratives. The retirement transition can therefore involve contemplating both how to spend newly-freed daily time and the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Retirement Transition; Life Narrative; Construal Level Theory; Global Construal; Quotidian Construal; Meanings Of Work And Retirement; Retirement; Transition; Perspective
Steiner, Jeff, and Teresa M. Amabile. "What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition." Art. 104137. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 171 (July 2022).
- September 2017 (Revised March 2023)
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Production Processes
By: Willy Shih and Michael W. Toffel
This note describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each process type. It then delves more deeply into work flow policies, materials... View Details
Keywords: Production Management; Production Planning; Production Scheduling; Process Analysis; Process Maps; Processing Times; Process Improvement; Production; Management; Product; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Shih, Willy, and Michael W. Toffel. "Production Processes." Harvard Business School Background Note 618-023, September 2017. (Revised March 2023.)
- June 2016
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Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration
By: Curtis K. Chan and Michel Anteby
What could explain inequality within a given job between groups of workers, particularly between women and men? Extant workplace inequality scholarship has largely overlooked as a source for inequality the job’s work content—the actual tasks workers perform. It is... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Work; Mechanisms And Processes; Stratification; Labor Process; Qualitative Methods (General); Case Method; Field Research; Equality and Inequality; Working Conditions; Gender; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Air Transportation Industry
Chan, Curtis K., and Michel Anteby. "Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 2 (June 2016): 184–216.