Career Concerns - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

month based on union-negotiated quotas. This implementation process enabled Choudhury and his co-authors to avoid what is known as the selection problem in social science research. “The concern is that there is some underlying... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

Management Review What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career By: Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, and Whitney Johnson Abstract—This article discusses how to diagnose the risks that disruptive industry forces pose to individual... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

R&D organization had established a culture of collaboration across scientific disciplines that some worried would diminish with larger functional departments. Others were concerned that an interdisciplinary team-based design would be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

slicing meat, baking bread—they show that they’re willing to roll up their sleeves, but this behavior could be costly to their businesses’ bottom lines. By looking at the everyday activities of women managers, Feldberg’s research offers new clues as to why women’s... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products

06 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

forced to resign for trading in Lubrizol stock prior to recommending that Berkshire Hathaway purchase the company. Examples abound of other recent failures: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned for submitting false expense reports View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2011
Supplement

Daniel Kim's Dilemma (B)

By: Bill George and Natalie Kindred

Daniel Kim was considering "blowing the whistle" on his friend, the CEO of a fast-growing startup where Kim had spent most of his professional career. When Kim joined the company, called Cardio-Metric, in 2002, it consisted of seven young engineers (including its two... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Venture Capital; Revenue; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Style; Personal Development and Career; Problems and Challenges; Behavior

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28 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

correlated with different pathways to success,” says Fuller, who is also the co-director of HBS’ Managing the Future of Work project. Apprenticeships are rare outside the building trades in the US. Concerns abound that they pigeonhole... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

need to keep creative thinking in their organizations even as time pressures increase. Silverthorne: What was the genesis of the project? What fascinated you about the question of time pressure and creativity? Amabile: Over the course of my twenty-five-year View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

is really about being proactive, both as individuals and as a society. If we’re worried about robots, we should ask what is it that actually concerns us and then put protections in place to mitigate those things. We’re not on a path over... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

employees going to regulators for financial motives, or whether people are coming forward when it is needed and they just get compensated for some of the cost they incur. Heese: The concern in most countries around the world, in many... View Details

Keywords: by April White

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

intraorganizational email networks. This is significant, given concerns that remote work might lead to siloed email networks, a pattern that might affect collaboration and innovation. Workers in the hybrid category also produced more... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

including Rivkin, who had spent their academic careers studying organizational design and organizational identity. A comprehensive study of the FBI’s transformation resulted in the paper "Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'?... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s editor, along with a request that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

service. Other families feel at least a modest compensation is warranted and earned. Families in business need to nurture members' feelings of trust and pride concerning the family and business as well as build a sense of teamwork to keep... View Details

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

Business Administration. The detrimental health impacts of pressure-filled professions are increasingly getting the attention of business leaders, who are not only concerned about the welfare of their workers, but also have an eye on... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Research Summary

Current Research

Information Dissemination in Capital Markets

Seeking to bridge economic theory and the role of individuals, Professor Brochet researches the transmission of information in capital markets. He has investigated the effects of information... View Details

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

composed his memo, didn't look so bad. But the entrepreneur became concerned as he dug more deeply into the numbers. Sure, revenues were up almost 21 percent over the previous year, but had slowed by over a third; transactions per store... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

is concerned those pay ratios may appear misleading to both employees and investors because, in some cases, economic factors that drive those earnings differences won’t be apparent. For instance, Apple is likely to have a CEO-to-employee... View Details