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- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
help families save money for college. That experience convinced me of the power of for-profit, mission-driven companies as a force for change. Because they are for-profit, they can attract amazing talent... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
temperament." The workings of what we now call reason spring from a primitive emotion—our anxiety at being alive and thrust toward an end past which we cannot see with any... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
OK, so they could just as easily have seen a post from Larry Page online if they had still been working after 5 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. Working from their homes and seeing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- February 2025
- Article
Sale of Private Equity–Owned Physician Practices and Physician Turnover
By: Victoria Berquist, Lev Klarnet and Leemore Dafny
Private equity (PE) ownership of physician practices is increasing, with owners targeting sales, or exits, in 3 to 7 years. Little is known about the association of exit with physician retention and subsequent employment. Using panel data over the period 2014-2020, we... View Details
Berquist, Victoria, Lev Klarnet, and Leemore Dafny. "Sale of Private Equity–Owned Physician Practices and Physician Turnover." JAMA Health Forum 6, no. 2 (February 2025).
- April 2022
- Article
Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others
By: Ximena Garcia-Rada, Mary Steffel, Elanor F. Williams and Michael I. Norton
Many products and services are designed to make caregiving easier, from premade meals for feeding families to robo-cribs that automatically rock babies to sleep. Yet, using these products may come with a cost: consumers may feel they have not exerted enough effort.... View Details
Keywords: Effor; Caregiving; Close Relationships; Symbolic Meaning; Signaling; Relationships; Consumer Behavior; Perception
Garcia-Rada, Ximena, Mary Steffel, Elanor F. Williams, and Michael I. Norton. "Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others." Journal of Consumer Research 48, no. 6 (April 2022): 970–990.
- September–October 2023
- Article
What Does 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Mean to You?: A Guide to the Four Main Types
By: Lynn S. Paine
Business leaders are being urged to adopt a multistakeholder approach to governance in place of the shareholder-centered approach that has guided their work for several decades. But through hundreds of interviews with directors, executives, investors, governance... View Details
Keywords: Stakeholder Capitalism; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Structure; Trust
Paine, Lynn S. "What Does 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Mean to You? A Guide to the Four Main Types." Harvard Business Review 101, no. 5 (September–October 2023): 108–119. (Reprinted in HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2025: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review 2025, Boston, Mass: Harvard Business Review Press, 2025, pp. 115-132.))
- 29 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?
know of the existence of the other groups. One group was given a lower starting pay rate ($3 per hour) and another a higher one ($4 per hour). Evaluating the View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- Research Summary
The Exercise and Development of Leadership
My research in this stream contributes to three recent trends in leadership scholarship. The first is the resurgence of a perspective less preoccupied with leaders' impact on organizational performance and more with their function as sources and symbols of the... View Details
- April 2025
- Article
Transitioning Into Retirement: The Interplay of Self and Life Structure
By: Marcy Crary, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, Kathy E. Kram, Teresa M. Amabile and Lotte Bailyn
This paper explores the psychological, social, and behavioral ways in which professionals end their corporate careers and reorient themselves and their lives in the transition from employment to retirement. Framed within life course theory, specifically the adult... View Details
Crary, Marcy, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, Kathy E. Kram, Teresa M. Amabile, and Lotte Bailyn. "Transitioning Into Retirement: The Interplay of Self and Life Structure." Working, Aging and Retirement 11, no. 2 (April 2025): 175–196.
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
Economics; Steven J. Davis of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business; and Lightcast Chief Economist Bledi Taska. Crunching the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
in which the countries are different. These dimensions pervade all aspects of societal existence, whether that means raising capital to start a new business, the nature of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
work over their personal lives are less happy." The findings have professional and personal implications for workers at a time when many business leaders are embracing performance-based pay. About 75 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
we want our accountants to work diligently. We want passionate lawyers, but we don’t want passionate judges.” “If I’m a leader in a company or team, just expressing passion won’t necessarily make people agree with me View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- March 2025
- Case
Taylor Guitars: Making Employee Ownership Work The Taylor Way
By: Dennis Campbell, Petros Kusmu and Stacy Straaberg
In 2013, guitar manufacturer Taylor Guitars’ co-founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug were considering several exit options including selling to a competitor or to a private equity firm. The co-founders decided, instead, to embark on a seven-year process to transfer 100%... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Communication Strategy; Strategy; Announcements; Decisions; Music Entertainment; Values and Beliefs; Borrowing and Debt; Geographic Location; Global Range; Governance; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Private Ownership; Business Strategy; Management Succession; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California; San Diego; Mexico; Netherlands
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
the biggest entertainment hits were green-lighted based on a gut feeling and little "hard" data. Third, being able to make friends in high places is a valuable characteristic; with that I mean... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
sometimes get their day in the sun: Sherron Watkins of Enron, Cynthia Cooper of WorldCom, and Coleen Rowley at the FBI all ended up on the cover View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 14 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?
So much has changed since a groundbreaking study found that daughters of working moms often perform better in their own careers than daughters of stay-at-home moms—and are just... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
professor of organizational behavior at Brandeis University International Business School, have described their work in two papers: "The Emotional Tightrope of Downsizing:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- August 12, 2021
- Article
The Endless Digital Workday
By: Arjun Narayan, Rohan Narayana Murty, Rajath B. Das and Scott Duke Kominers
The shift to remote work ended the traditional 9–5 workday: employees work in bursts, at night, between caregiving tasks, and whenever they can find time between the endless distractions of messages, calls, and emails. New research, however, shows that for many teams,... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Workday; Team Overlap; Groups and Teams; Employees; Performance Productivity; Management
Narayan, Arjun, Rohan Narayana Murty, Rajath B. Das, and Scott Duke Kominers. "The Endless Digital Workday." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (August 12, 2021).