Filter Results:
(1,238)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,238)
- News (441)
- Research (595)
- Multimedia (54)
- Faculty Publications (303)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,238)
- News (441)
- Research (595)
- Multimedia (54)
- Faculty Publications (303)
- July 2010
- Article
Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship
By: Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen
We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel dataset. We argue that coworkers can increase the likelihood that an individual will... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Perception; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence
Nanda, Ramana, and Jesper B. Sorensen. "Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship." Management Science 56, no. 7 (July 2010): 1116–1126.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship
By: Ramana Nanda and Jesper B. Sorensen
We examine whether the likelihood of entrepreneurial activity is related to the prior career experiences of an individual's co-workers, using a unique matched employer-employee panel dataset. We argue that coworkers can increase the likelihood that an individual... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence
Nanda, Ramana, and Jesper B. Sorensen. "Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-051, January 2008. (revised January 2009, March 2010.)
- 13 Jun 2016
- News
Managing the High-Intensity Workplace
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
Benvenuti Photo courtesy Janet Simpson Benvenuti Although I didn’t realize it until much later, my life changed the day I agreed to become legally responsible for my 78-year-old father and my 77-year-old mother, who suffered from lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease,... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 13 Feb 2018
- Webinars: Career
Managing the High-Intensity Workplace
People today are under intense pressure to be "ideal workers"--totally committed to their jobs and always on call. How do people cope with these pressures and what are some of the dysfunctional consequences for individuals and for their organizations? While complete... View Details
- 15 Mar 2022
- News
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
- September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Deloitte & Touche women's initiative changed the workplace culture at the firm, solved retention problems, and brought external benefits. Now a new CEO must decide how to take this a step further as competition for talent was even stronger, young people had different... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Jane Roessner. "Deloitte & Touche (B): Changing the Workplace." Harvard Business School Case 300-013, September 1999. (Revised May 2003.)
- 16 Mar 2021
- News
Employers Must Ensure the Safety of Home Workspaces
- 09 Feb 2021
- News
How COVID experiences will reshape the workplace
- Research Summary
The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency
Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Who Guarantees Your Workplace is Safe for Return?
- 26 Feb 2015
- News
The Alarming, Long-Term Consequences of Workplace Stress
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?
Managers almost universally say they want to see passion in their employees. Yet sometimes, they can’t spot it when it’s right in front of them. Extroverted employees are more likely to be considered passionate compared to more introverted colleagues—even if it’s not... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
study fit into your broader interest in workplace gender issues? Our research speaks to the question of how men construct identities in the workplace, and the role organizations can play in shaping this process. In other research, we have... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
changes in mental health in the workplace and in stigma, more broadly. We're seeing so many more Hollywood celebrities and stars speaking out. There is much more coverage in the media. And much more increasingly positive coverage in the... View Details
- 04 Jul 2011
- News
Declaring Independence in the Workplace
- 2005
- Article
Rawlsian Justice and Workplace Republicanism
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Keywords: Theory
Hsieh, Nien-he. "Rawlsian Justice and Workplace Republicanism." Social Theory and Practice 31, no. 1 (2005): 115–142.
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty—all of whom... View Details
Keywords: All Industries