employee engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

you ask to use a company’s main brand, because that affects all of its employees and business,” he says. “But the way we play with Lego is a mash-up. My son’s Batman minifigure interacts with a Star Wars minifigure, and we wanted that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

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

25 Feb 2020
News

Teachable Moments

meaningful relationships with their people, they also create loyalty and an environment where employees feel secure enough to take chances and suggest innovative and sometimes disruptive ideas . When I speak of leadership, I’m referring... View Details

23 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

Psychology The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work By: Brodsky, Andrew, and Teresa M. Amabile Abstract—Although both media commentary and academic research have focused much attention on the dilemma of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2023
News

Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

turbulence in talent markets that isn't ending anytime soon. "There's been a fundamental shift in the marketplace, where employees have more power than they had in the past," says Kwok. "So companies are asking, ‘how do we attract and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

blame someone.” When our brains are preoccupied, he continues, we engage in counterproductive behavior. “We demonize, we retreat from the problem itself and from others who might provide counsel, and then we redouble those efforts. We do... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

lever you have for leading organizations, arguably the more vocal one. Whatever strategy has not made clear to your extended team, culture will unapologetically fill the void. Culture establishes the rules of engagement after leadership... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 08 Jul 2025 In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success tag Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies While many employees find themselves back in the office a great deal of the time, remote and hybrid work remain... View Details

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

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

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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

01 Dec 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

algorithms. So much richer, in fact, that my engagement with a particular brand might be very different than yours, because it’s customized to each of us. I can also imagine this predictive learning being combined with new user... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jan 2024
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

executive at a company where the numbers say you need to close a factory, which you know will have a devastating impact on the employees affected. If you don’t do it, however, your whole company may collapse. This dilemma mirrors the... View Details

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

a family business and work within any of these structures. Course focuses on interpersonal dynamics of employees - both family and non-family professionals. All three Family organizations, the Family, the Operating Company, and the Family... View Details

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

hierarchy, examining motivation challenges from frontline worker engagement to executive compensation, providing students with a comprehensive toolkit applicable across different organizational roles and at any career stage. Educational... View Details

15 Jan 2020
News

The Business of Access

expenses. It’s about the things that would make their work better and easier, which are resources that private-sector employees take for granted.” In January 2019, Lisle became CEO of Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, a... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 26

individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details