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- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023
That High-Performing Teams NeedStruggling to spark strategic risk-taking and creative thinking? In the post-pandemic workplace, teams need psychological safety more than ever, and a new analysis by Amy Edmondson highlights the best ways to nurture it. When a View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
worse tenants. The fact that Walton had acquired the lease to a store in Newport that Kroger was vacating and then set up a small department store himself, which he called the Eagle Store, might not have been completely irrelevant in... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
attendance and behavior, asked some workers to reapply for their jobs, and gave what seemed like unmanageable workloads to others. Some employees returned from vacation to find that a company car, badge, or desk had been stripped from... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
trip by, for example, vacationing closer to home; drive more economically and less aggressively to improve miles per gallon; and buy a specific dollar amount of gas rather than filling up every time, even though this may mean more visits... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 05 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast
initial terms and conditions of employment. Most workers accept a new job thinking of fundamentals like salary, title, and vacation time. But, says Fuller, they also need to be looking at the long-term. Where do employees end up? Are they... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One
is to writing about difficult ethical decisions?" Or put differently, what happens in between the big decisions—which don't come along very often? For some people they come along very, very infrequently. Does this mean these people are on View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
percent more likely to stay at Stanford, and they also reported a better work-life balance. Employers could also allow employees to take more random days off just to give them a break. “We know we are more productive when we take vacation... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
most. But there are other benefits, too. By putting a positive price on IPv4 space, a market mechanism would remind current v4 users that their v4 space is valuable, and that they might want to try to vacate it, to the extent they can,... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
important decisions—from where we are going to vacation to who will treat us when we're sick—it's all the more critical that businesses provide consumers with enough quantitative and qualitative information to ease their decision making.... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
that people need to take breaks throughout the day, get enough sleep, and take vacations.” Yet many of us don’t practice what we preach, she acknowledges. So managers can set an example by taking breaks and vacations and encouraging their... View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
vacation days we normally let go unused. Video: Managers, respect your workers’ time by setting the right toneView Video “In the moment, these decisions may seem inconsequential or easy to reverse, but they’re not,” Whillans says. “We... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
time is also effective. Employers could consider supplementing financial incentives with time-based rewards, like extra vacation time or flex days, or health perks, like gym memberships, says Whillans, author of the book Time Smart: How... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 05 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Purchase an Experience
authors Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton draw on years of quantitative and qualitative research to explain how we can turn cash into contentment. The key lies in adhering to five key principles: Buy Experiences (research shows that material purchases are less... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
workweeks, unpaid leave, pay freezes, elimination of bonuses, a freeze on 401(k) matching, and reduced vacation allowance. Some CEOs believe salary cuts are a way to spread the pain of reducing salary costs across a broad number of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
reality is that we don’t really know if commercial space flight will ultimately be a money maker, how many competitors will fit in the market, or what demand will be for consumers taking off on space vacations after the initial enthusiasm... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
Freedom to use vacation time to attend celebrations with family and friends helps improve performance for employees who work far away from their hometowns, new research by Prithwiraj Choudhury suggests. When employees move away from their... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
This is even true for high positions. Social identity seems to be stronger than gender in this case. Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle Dren comments: As a millennial with friends who always want to travel, who take all of their View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
performance. "Frankly, it's very fuzzy," Soltes says. "What's material to you may not be material to me, and vice versa. If the CEO tells you he's skipping his family vacation for the first time in years, is that material or immaterial?... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
replicate the effects across a bunch of different domains ranging from Web service to vacations to cameras. Q: What is your practical advice to managers to avoid overchoice? A: There are a couple of different ways to deal with overchoice.... View Details
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
on Friday and Saturday nights. Vacations were no better: 51 percent checked continuously when on vacation. If they lost their wireless device and couldn't replace it for a week, 44 percent of those surveyed said they would experience... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow