Worker Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

knowledge workers for their organization. Right? Not quite. In Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance (2010), Professor Boris Groysberg examined the careers of more than 1,000... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change

doubling down in China, where over half of its workers are based. Yang aspires to introduce new competitive strategies to the entire textile and apparel industry, and to be a leader in positive economic development in China. Esquel is... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Replicating Toyota's Success

Spear focused on the company's approach to solving problems and noticed the conscious way Toyota's managers involve employees in this process, even to the point of leaving a production line at suboptimal performance so that View Details

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

to the office, when, and why. Based on my own research, especially in knowledge work, I’m not surprised that organizations are realizing they need workers to be physically present, in person, at least several days a week and that they... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

says, came in adapting the culture of the workplace to accept the autistic employees. This was done through autism-awareness training sessions for all employees, and management training for workers engaging directly with the team, to help... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity Senior Lecturer John Macomber grew up working for the George B.H.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?

occurred to me (at my customary snail’s pace) that IBM missed a PR bonanza by not making its marvelous machine a woman. But I digress. Watson’s performance at times was puzzling. The machine answered 34 questions, all correctly. Yet it... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium

thus far, said Amabile, is that the research suggests that workers are incorrect in their frequent belief that they are more creative when they are working under deadline pressure. A dearth of time pressure, however, does not inspire... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

Bertini (DBA 2006) and Oded Koenigsberg The MIT Press Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 2000
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Staying Afloat

shipyard's new director, Kryzstof Piotrowski, a former worker at the yard who had been dismissed six years earlier for political reasons and had gone on to get a doctorate in maritime engineering. Piotrowski View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

Alumni Books Live the Art by Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) (Rizzoli) A chronicle of Deitch’s career as an art dealer and producer of memorable installations and art happenings that transcended the idea of a mere “exhibition,” this book explores in detail the shows and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

on employee and community well-being in fact perform better than those that don't? "There is some evidence to suggest the affirmative," says Thomas. "The service profit chain model, formulated by HBS professors Jim Heskett, Earl Sasser,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

Control, Ken always cracked a joke. When lost in POM, we all turned to Mr. Polk.” 1987I. “Brave but stupid!” 1986H. One of our sectionmates had been an Army colonel (or some high rank), and his approach in one case to a delicate HR matter was to force an unpopular... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé

over the previous year. The company, which employs about one thousand workers worldwide, went public in July 1999; an article that appeared last February in Red Herring's online edition (www.redherring.com) noted that TIBCO's stock had... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; Information; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2014
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Groundwork

In the foreground of this fall 1926 photo, workers construct the Weeks Bridge; in the distance, the HBS campus takes shape (Harvard University Property Information Resource Center) Except for the brief reign of commencement mortarboards,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; George F. Baker III; real estate; Tata Hall; Educational Services; Real Estate

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

a production chain, that maximized output.” Klug admires the way Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or “turns.” “Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star of the show,” Klug says. “When the meal was over,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Feb 2020
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Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

project focuses on six key forces: technology trends such as automation and artificial intelligence, contingent workforces and the gig economy, workforce demographics and the “care economy,” the middle-skills gap and worker investments,... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to introduce a new pilot project designed to enhance the motivation and performance of a group of 200 employees. A rare female manager at Frito-Lay, Johnson finds that her youth, inexperience, and... View Details

06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace

you're being expected to perform and to perform on time. Switz: Yes, so at GE, I completely hid this psychotic break and we basically, told the company that I had a thyroid disorder and had been in the... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out

work, nonprofit fellows contribute to and witness transformations in the lives of others — with lasting effects on their own lives as well. One day last August in rural Kharagpur, India, Neera Nundy (HBS '02) accompanied a middle-aged bakery View Details

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

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