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- 30 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS
year at Google, and it still felt like a dream. I loved my role. My coworkers and managers were expert mentors. I felt like the company’s top priority (so did everyone else!). I played soccer twice a week on Google’s idyllic Mountain View... View Details
- Portrait Project
Milly Wang
that I remembered most—my second-grade teacher encouraging me to speak up in class despite my poor English, my friend staying by my side overnight in the emergency room after I broke my ankle despite having an early work meeting the next day, my View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
to relocate for at least a year through its Tulsa Remote program, providing incentives such as $10,000 in cash, coworking space, assistance with finding a home, and community-building events. So far, the city has attracted close to 2,000... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
or because coworkers create an atmosphere that encourages theft. Nevertheless, the incremental losses observed when employees work in groups are absent in firms that pay higher wages. And what about the previous study that showed employee... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
9/11, crying with my coworkers was one of the most transformational moments in my career. Work teams may bond over this current crisis.” 10. Let workers blow off steam With many employees feeling anxious and isolated, companies could set... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
watch for shoplifters, and keep smiling to maintain customer service. I was 16 and it was a real stretch, but I became quite good at juggling it all and was made a department supervisor. By age 17, I was managing coworkers in their 40s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details
- Web
Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
yourself it was not really important 49% Talked to a friend or family member 44% Felt isolated or disconnected from coworkers 37% Felt stressed, anxious, or burned out 34% Tried to let the person know I didn’t like it 33% Performed below... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
crucial that managers welcome contributions and perspectives that challenge the status quo. One case in point happened at coworking space The Wing. In 2020 CEO Audrey Gelman had to address criticism that the company, despite a feminist... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
robot, meant for simpler jobs like unpacking boxes; Sawyer is a one-armed robot designed for more precise tasks like placing memory cards into motherboards. The humanizing is intentional and essential to integrating the bots into a factory’s workflow. “It’s not the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Profile
Aline Camargo
the career paths that I was considering doing. How has HBS prepared you for your summer internship & your long term career? As I plan to develop my career in Brand Management and Marketing Strategy, I know that I will constantly interact with View Details
- Portrait Project
Sisto Merolla
my life, always treating my coworkers as "people" rather than "resources"? finally convince myself that no, politics in Italy is not only a dirty job for self-interested and dishonest people? always strive to... View Details
- 25 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
verbally recognizing how employees feel, particularly when they are sad, upset, or angry, helps coworkers form a much deeper connection. The team’s paper, Emotional Acknowledgement: How Verbalizing Others’ Emotions Fosters Interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
@Soldiers Field
innovative category, promises to “unleash your inner rock star” and is currently offered in 25 US states. Construction for the 15,000-square-foot Harvard Life Lab—featuring a wet lab with 36 benches and a collaborative 50-desk coworking... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Susan Hamilton
Telling your coworkers that you need to miss the client meeting to handle your daughter’s case of lice is risky. "This is unfair to those of us who don’t have kids!" "Can she really handle this promotion?" Or imagine... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sarah Kalmbach
Forks scraping plates. Wine splashed into glasses. Clinking dishes. Fits of laughter. Sometimes tears. Always growth. As a child, I would look up from my booster seat at a neighbor or my dad’s coworker sitting across the table. I didn’t... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Chances Are
"And I've seen triples," she told her boyfriend. Shapiro's book—cowritten with his wife, Rosalind Wright, and longtime coworker Louise Firth Campbell—is a snapshot of the more than 500,000 sets of odds compiled between 2006 and 2009, back... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
manage the impressions they make on others, believes that impression management is an ever-present and important element of organizational life. “People are always thinking about how others view them and how they would like to be viewed. Fostering authentic... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
can focus on that, it is the way to win." One way to be a good value creator: give coworkers credit where credit is due. The need to appear smart can lead managers to cast blame on others for missteps or to claim an employee's idea... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman