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Triadic Advocacy Work

Scholars of street-level bureaucracy and institutional research focus primarily on the relationships between advocates and their larger bureaucratic and social systems, assuming that advocates have little need to satisfy their beneficiaries. We find otherwise in our... View Details

2011
Working Paper

Temptation at Work

By: Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser and Marco Piovesan

To encourage worker productivity, offices prohibit Internet use. Consequently, many employees delay Internet activity to the end of the workday. Recent work in social psychology, however, suggests that using willpower to delay gratification can negatively impact... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Performance Productivity; Behavior; Power and Influence; Internet

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01 Mar 2025
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Patch Work

The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

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Working Papers

By: Dennis A. Yao

Lewis, Tracy R. and Dennis A. Yao. (2001, revised 2006). "Innovation, Knowledge Flow, and Worker... View Details

Awards

Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition. First Prize

By: Lauren H. Cohen

Won the 2010 First Prize Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition with Christopher Malloy for their paper with Lukasz Pomorski, "Decoding Inside Information" (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16454, October 2010). View Details

07 Apr 2021
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Road Work

who passed away would think of what you're doing? Do you think he'd be proud of you? Would he feel honored, do you think? Ken: This definitely can come back to his door with respect to precipitating this stage. That was a nexus point at which I changed from a View Details

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Works in Progress

"Hunkering Down and Venturing Out: Network Activation in Response to the Uncertainty of Organizational Restructuring." Under Review. Awarded Best Paper in Organizational Behavior: 2011 Trans-Atlantic... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Lab Work

After 16 years at the Australian technology-transfer organization UniQuest, managing director David Henderson (MBA 1989) is moving on to new challenges. Looking back on the experience of shepherding technologies from the university to the marketplace—the... View Details

Keywords: immunology; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2023
News

Happier-ness at Work

causes you to be happier all around. Engaging in work with your whole heart is one of the best ways to enjoy your days, get satisfaction from your accomplishments, and see meaning in your efforts. Work, at its best, is “love made... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Mar 2024
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Do People Want to Work Anymore?

30 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Temptation at Work

Keywords: by Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser & Marco Piovesan

18 Apr 2014
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Making “Freemium” Work

01 Sep 2020
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Road Work

the Salas brothers are working to help finance entrepreneurs very much like their mother. Founded in 2014 and with offices in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Camino got its start while Kenny and Sean were still students at HBS. In addition... View Details

Keywords: banking; LatinX; small businesses; COVID-19; Finance

2006
Tool

Working Smarter

By: D. A. Garvin

Keywords: Performance Efficiency

Citation

12 Apr 2016
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Equality Takes Work

21 Jun 2021
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The Remote Work Revolution

10 May 2022
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Remote Work Desire Changing Workforce

2020
Working Paper

Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion

By: Ryan Allen and Prithwiraj Choudhury

Past research offers mixed perspectives on whether domain experience helps or hurts algorithm-augmented work performance. To reconcile these perspectives, we theorize that domain experience affects algorithm-augmented performance via two distinct countervailing... View Details