Job Design and Levels - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

different levels: technical (can it work?), production (can it be produced?), need (does it address customer needs?), and market (is it big enough to justify the investment?). So managers need to assess at which View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

paradise enjoyed by Turtle Island Resort's fourteen guest couples. Fourteen couples, fourteen private beaches, each with its own cottage, or bure, designed and constructed according to the standards of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

book based on their expertise. Les chantiers de ma vie by Claude Lefebvre (OPM 10, 1985) with Hélène-Andrée Bizier (Cyfbel) An autobiography of an engineer and entrepreneur from Québec. Design Thinking for... View Details

14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

automated vehicles to navigate for them. “The risk is that the promise of extensive automation may provide a false sense of security,” says Sadun. “Our findings suggest that some drivers are already easily distracted, and unable to keep a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

Cities and states are feeling the financial pain of this recession more quickly than in past downturns after pandemic-induced lockdowns swiftly decimated sales tax revenue that helps fund their operations. In fact, new research finds that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

SUMMING UP Why Is It so Difficult to Lead with Candor, Humility, and Trust? Responses to this month’s column, for the most part, represented a celebration of the values of candor, humility, and trust in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2017
News

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

Financial resources don’t determine the quality of education, but it would be absurd to deny that money helps. "Adding to the challenge, 65 percent of Black college students are also juggling full-time jobs or families." Merck CEO Kenneth... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

01 Feb 1997
News

Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management

general manager. The project came about after Garvin's search for teaching materials on the distinction between the job of a general manager and that of a senior functional manager yielded "next to nothing."... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

29 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014

lessons from 2014. What will 2015 bring? Most Popular Articles 2014 Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance New research by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect... View Details

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

the bias belted tire, claiming that it conferred significant performance improvements and launched an advertising campaign questioning the benefits of radials. Firestone, Uniroyal and General Tire quickly... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

September 2014 (Revised April 2016)
Case

Cree Inc.: Introducing the LED Light Bulb

By: John Gourville and Michael Norris

Cree, a North Carolina-based maker of light emitting diodes (LEDs), has just introduced its first consumer product—an LED light bulb. It is designed as an energy efficient replacement for the ubiquitous incandescent light bulb. But given that it is an unfamiliar... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Innovation; Product Adoption; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Energy Conservation; Product Launch; Consumer Products Industry; North Carolina

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08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Naik’s images with household income levels for some 2,400 blocks, provided by the city online. “The incomes act as labels for the images, and then the machine learns the association between how the features... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

What managers must take away from this book is that the jobs in their organization will only be fulfilling to their employees if they provide opportunities to reasonably satisfy all four drives. Jobs must be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

sharing system recording employees’ creative work—a control system often used to promote local experimentation—on the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. While, on average,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

in job training programs associated with the government's 1996 welfare-to-work program and IBM's education initiative as examples of this model. "We still have work to do, but there's been some breaking down... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

entrants, underscoring the growing level of interest and opportunities to address this critical issue. The winners of both the Tough Tech Prize and Alumni Track had innovative... View Details

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation. This past April, 2.7 percent of Americans quit their jobs, the highest rate on record. And according to a study by Microsoft, more than 40 percent of the global workforce would consider leaving... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

single-payer system. Few national politicians are working to uncover why the public exchanges aren’t working for either insurers or consumers. While it’s difficult, the question everyone should be working to answer is: How can the system produce an adequate View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

the largest investors in bonds—banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds—aren't willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I propose is a neutral... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

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