back to work - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Nov 2024
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Ex-Execs Go Back to University

03 Nov 2010
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He's Back to Baseball Cards

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2012
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Can Apple Really Bring Manufacturing Back to the U.S.?

2023
Working Paper

Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

By: Stephen Hansen, Peter John Lambert, Nick Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Raffaella Sadun and Bledi Taska

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; Hybrid Work; Work From Home (WFH); Pandemic; Labor Market; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Trends

2019
Working Paper

The Impact of Professionals' Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities on Their Workplace Knowledge Work

By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Frank Nagle

Knowledge work is becoming increasingly challenging as pace of change in the knowledge frontier is increasing. Organizations have created multiple mechanisms to minimize knowledge gaps and increase learning such internal training, mentorship programs as well as... View Details

Keywords: Open Source; Future Of Work; Software Development; Knowledge Work; Online Community; Learning; Knowledge Sharing; Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Performance Productivity

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09 May 2021
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Should You Go Back to the Office?

07 Oct 2020
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Bringing Business Ethics Back to Friedman’s Call to Purpose

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

nonprofits more by educating them on building business frameworks and developing organizational strategy. "There are core questions that help teach organizations how to perform," he said. Working View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

15 Sep 2008
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On-Rampers: Time to Head Back to School?

November 18, 2010
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GM's IPO: Back to the Future

By: Joseph L. Bower, Vineet Kumar and Dante Roscini

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15 Oct 2014
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MBAs Give Back to Small Business

Keywords: MBAs Across America; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

The bottom line is, after all, the bottom line when it comes to business success. No profit, no business. But should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? In a new Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2022
Working Paper

Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis and Kyle Schirmann

Hybrid work is emerging as a novel form of organizing work globally. This paper reports causal evidence on how the extent of hybrid work—the number of days worked from home relative to days worked from the office—affects work outcomes. Collaborating with an... View Details

Keywords: Hybrid Work; Remote Work; Work-from-home; Field Experiment; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance; Work-Life Balance

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18 Sep 2021
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Back To School At 60: Leaning In To Longevity

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How to Bounce Back from Adversity

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Paul G. Stoltz

The article focuses on how companies can be managed to overcome adversity with resilience. The characteristics of resilient managers who provide leadership for their teams and can build resilience in their employees are discussed. The manager's ability to shift... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Leadership; Crisis Management; Managerial Roles; Behavior; Cognition and Thinking

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Find at Harvard

23 Apr 2010
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Back to Basics on Financial Reform

26 Oct 2015
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Sal Khan Goes Back to School

The revolution started several years ago with Khan Academy, an innovative online portal of educational videos and tutorials that has attracted millions of followers and showed educators a thing or two about the way today’s children learn. Founder Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is... View Details

Keywords: Khan Academy; Educational Services