Employee Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

users. Not only does it teach a skill set (coding) that is increasingly in demand in the job market, but its users are so loyal and engaged that they have provided the bulk of the learning content themselves at no cost. Codecademy's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

sure that point-of-sale checks are done correctly. SC: That’s an especially exciting example because we taught a module on public markets engagement in the spring, and then by the fall we had a new case study about the student who had... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

Web

Podcast - HBS Online

Linnane welcomes Harvard Business School Professor Joshua Margolis to The Parlor Room to discuss how to develop yourself as a leader and dive into the story of how the CEO of the world's largest denim jeans company inspired and engaged... View Details

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

The Role of Employee Proactivity Authors:A. M. Grant, F. Gino, and D. Hofmann Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Extraversion predicts leadership emergence and effectiveness, but do groups perform more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India

to making no new investments in fossil fuel energy generation pouring resources into wind, solar, and other renewables instead — the reality is that large swaths of India still depend on coal for electricity. Following this engaging... View Details

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

science, and computing. The mounting evidence is clear: These tools can promote employee collaboration and knowledge sharing across silos. They can help employees make faster decisions, develop more... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

communication and engagement practices, can encourage frontline workers to conduct problem solving. We test our hypotheses in the health care context, in which the use of incident reporting systems to highlight operational failures is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

effects more than doubled or had consumers' discount factor increased by fifty percent. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-031.pdf PublicationsIdentity Incentives as an Engaging Form of Control: Revisiting Leniencies... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Fabio Consoli One year after the pandemic mandated an abrupt shift to working from home for millions of people, organizations are taking a long, hard look at how and where employees work—and why. In... View Details

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

panel of advisers-resulting in a wealth of teaching moments bound to keep you captivated. Experts agree that many twentieth-century leadership practices won't work in the turbulent twenty-first century. This engaging book gives you the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

make a significant decision about their young company's sales function. DoubleDutch's key product was a mobile application (app) and event management platform that customers could use to better engage and connect with their event... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?

written about the caregiving roles of employees and strengthening the education-to-work pipeline. The following is a transcript of questions posed by Instagram users and Fuller’s answers: Should we be worried about the current “worker... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Manufacturing

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

Case Study. Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001, MPA 2002) believes that has to change—and it’s the responsibility of her generation to lead the way. Ballou-Aares is creating a path for the next generation of business leaders to engage in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

senior leadership positions, the most frequently adopted strategy is to remain silent about race or other issues of inequality or injustice in order to avoid being labeled as an agitator (Cose, 2011). Nearly 40 percent of black employees... View Details

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

for the quality of the flowers they sell, RFH employees will also engage in quality checks and research. In fact, quality assurance is a hallmark of RFH's operations. The auction house's dedicated Product... View Details

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

employees tended to be most engaged by regular, incremental progress toward the accomplishment of a meaningful goal—a phenomenon Amabile calls The Progress Principle, which is also the title of her new book.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Mar 2019
News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

experiences also sent him on a quest to find academics who were studying sabbaticals so he could better understand how the implementation of sabbatical policies impact employee behavior. Informally called the Sabbatical Project, DiDonna’s... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

element of a hiring decision, but it helps reduce uncertainty. We’re learning so much about how employee well-being drives engagement and performance, and I think organizations will operate differently in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Jul 2014
News

Hungry for Change

200 food banks, the organization has access to surplus food donations from manufacturers and producers throughout the country. "The nature of our work means that we have been tightly coupled with the food industry," he notes. "But we are starting to deepen our View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

classroom. We've seen that LOC programs can be as intense and engaging as in-person ones. Harvard Business School wants to educate many more leaders than can come to campus. While we currently extend our reach through Harvard Business... View Details

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