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  • 29 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

time crunched, the last thing we want to do is squander labor market opportunity and flexibility. Yet that’s what could happen if new companies are forced to build workforces based on dated assumptions about employees and independent contractors. We need a new, View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services
  • Article

Geographic Mobility, Immobility, and Geographic Flexibility—A Review and Agenda for Research on the Changing Geography of Work

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
I review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how geographic mobility of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on this interdisciplinary literature, I document that geographic mobility creates value by... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Mobility; Frictions; Work-from-anywhere; Employees; Geographic Location; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
  • Case

Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?

By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
In late 2018, evidence emerged that many of Google’s temporary help agency workers, vendors, and independent contractors (“TVCs”) were unhappy with the company. TVCs, who reportedly made up 49.95% of Google’s 170,000-person global workforce, had raised concerns of... View Details
Keywords: Workforce; Independent Contractors; Talent Management; Silicon Valley; Google; Employee Attitude; Employee Compensation; Employee Engagement; Future Of Work; Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Inequality; Talent Acquisition; Labor; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Employees; Attitudes; Innovation and Management; Human Resources; Equality and Inequality; Information Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fostering Organizational Learning: The Impact of Work Design on Workarounds, Errors, and Speaking Up About Internal Supply Chain Problems

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker
  • 14 Sep 2020
  • News

Rude work emails are bad for your health and on the rise - here's what you need to know

  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets

to always be 'equal' – over time it balances out." "It may be hard for students to hear that 'it'll all work out,' yet often it really does," says Charlie. "But sure, it can be frustrating when you're in the middle of... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2013
  • News

Work-Family Conflict is Not the Problem. Overwork Is.

  • 27 Sep 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Judith Chevalier, Yale School of Management

  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Post-Office

Prashanth Chandrasekar (MBA 2008) (pictured above right), but the company already had a strong remote-work ethos, with 40 percent of its employees working remotely and a globally distributed workforce with offices in New York, Austin,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

    Economist Impact: Expert Q&A

    Hybrid work refers to a spectrum of flexible work arrangements in which an employee’s work location and/or hours are not strictly standardised.

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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Second- versus Third-party Audit Quality: Evidence from Global Supply Chain Monitoring

    By: Maria R. Ibanez, Ashley Palmarozzo, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
    Capitalizing on the superior credibility and flexibility and potential lower cost of external assessments, many global buyers are relying less on their own employee (“second-party”) auditors and more on third-party auditors to monitor and prevent environmental and... View Details
    Keywords: Auditing; Audit Quality; Working Conditions; Sustainability; Empirical Operations; Empirical Service Operations; Sustainability Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain Management
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    • November 2009
    • Case

    VF Brands: Global Supply Chain Strategy

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Pamela Adams
    This case examines VF Brands global supply chain strategy. Historically, VF has used a combination of in-house manufacturing and traditional arms-length sourcing arrangements. At the time of the case, the company is considering a third approach to supplier relations... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Logistics; Supply Chain Management; Partners and Partnerships; Cooperation; Vertical Integration; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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    • 11 Dec 2018
    • News

    Herzlinger Editorial Influences Federal Healthcare Policy

    • 06 Aug 2020
    • News

    Zoom took over the world. This is what will happen next

    • 03 Apr 2020
    • News

    The Lessons We Choose

    • 16 Apr 2019
    • Blog Post

    How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

    I was lucky to be supported by the HBS Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship, without which I likely would not have taken the leap. My decision to pursue entrepreneurship, often referred to as a lonely path, partly stemmed from the View Details
    • January 1991 (Revised November 1994)
    • Supplement

    Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp. (B)

    Describes the compromise worked out between Xerox and the black caucus groups. The implications of this arrangement for Xerox and black employees over the next 16 years is also described. View Details
    Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Employee Relationship Management; Race Characteristics; Consumer Products Industry
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    • 08 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Hire a Millennial

    General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details
    Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
    • 13 Jul 2016
    • Blog Post

    How To Hire A Millennial

    advancement, a retirement plan and other benefits, along with life in a picturesque suburb. Instead, global workplace surveys portray a generation that yearns for more flexible work View Details
    Keywords: All Industries

      Aurora Turek

      Aurora Turek is a PhD candidate in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the future of work. In particular, she studies how flexible work practices - like remote and hybrid work - emerge and the implications of these... View Details