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  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Managing the Business of Life

average of 3.2 hours each workday with their children, while employed fathers spend 2.3 hours each workday. Source: The Families and Work Institute's "1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce." Karla (Rose) Middlebrooks Keeping to... View Details
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

the quiet rule-breaking could mean developing code with management's approval for open-source external company projects. For mail carriers, the moral gray zone might mean finishing duties early yet staying "on the clock" until the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

Catalysts And Nourishers In addition to studying the effect of progress, the researchers analyzed the workday diaries to determine the factors that facilitated progress: catalysts (events that helped a project move forward) and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

May–June 2018 Harvard Business Review The Surprising Power of Questions By: Brooks, Alison Wood, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

workday events can make or break employees' inner work lives. But it's forward momentum in meaningful work—progress that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

and hard—the standard workday is divided into two 12-hour shifts (the day and night shift), and everyone is on call 24 hours a day. During site visits, we were able to observe most aspects of their work and to interview, both informally... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Compared with CEOs who work shorter hours overall, CEOs with longer workdays tend to devote more time meeting with other employees within the company and less time meeting with outsiders. The better the firm's governance structure, the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

a 5.3% increase in RVUs per clinician workday; an increase in delegation of EHR tasks of 1 standard deviation resulted in an 11.0% increase in RVUs per clinician workday (P August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Evolution of Land... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

perceptions, emotions, and motivation levels—on several dimensions of performance. People perform better when their workday experiences include more positive emotions, stronger intrinsic motivation (passion for the work), and more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Blissful Thinking

too—his suggested maxims are lab-tested. “I really do have to take my own advice,” says Pasricha. How can we be happier at work? One of the biggest “minimum effective doses” is just spending a couple minutes at the beginning of your View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

employees, since some of them may naturally engage in behaviors to offset the negative effects of longer commutes. Drawing on psychological research on self-control, we theorize how engaging in future-oriented thinking about the tasks to complete during the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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reinforce the three core themes of the class. We have six live cases where senior executives from SalesForce.com, Samsara, IBM, Infor, Workday and EnterpriseDB will join us to grapple with actual sales management challenges they are... View Details