Meanings Of Work And Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2023
News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

the confidence to move forward in my studies and in my career. After graduating with my MBA, I earned a JD from Georgetown in 1980, followed by two PhDs from UCLA in 1996 and 2001. I served as dean at the... View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

HBS alum and Care.com CEO Sheila Marcelo, demographic trends and the changing role of women in the workforce mean that employers must “do the... View Details

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Managing Multiple Identities at Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan

Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details

Leading Diversity at Work

Retirement doesn’t have to be scary.
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24 Oct 2018
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Exploring the Future of Work for Women

and presentations by HBS faculty, industry leaders and scholars. “We wanted to explore the idea at the highest levels,” Viswanathan said. “The whole idea of what changes in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

long-standing belief that great leaders have vision and influence, the researchers found that entrepreneurial leaders have more confidence of their abilities than the average leader on this dimension—and... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

2018
Working Paper

Channeled Attention and Stable Errors -- Previous Working Version

By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein

A common critique of models of mistaken beliefs is that people should recognize their error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker... View Details

Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Theory; Situation or Environment

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14 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?

Technology, on the working paper Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Programs, released by the National Bureau of Economic Research in November. Danielle Kost: How... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Pharmaceutical; Health

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Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work

Media Coverage Media Coverage 22 May 2025 Broadcast Retirement Network Your Employees Are Also Caregivers Re: Joseph Fuller 21 Apr 2025 Charter How AI is reshaping HR Re: Joseph Fuller Harvard Magazine The New Gender Gaps Re: Joseph... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Will Work-from-Home Work Forever?

The pandemic may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean we’ll return to full-time commuting and packed office buildings. The greatest accidental experiment in the history of labor has lessons to teach us about productivity, flexibility, and even reversing the... View Details

07 Jan 2022
News

Ask Help Desk: Creating Community and Safety at Work While Omicron Surges

06 Mar 2020
News

‘Can everyone mute?’ Coronavirus means we must telecommute. We’re not ready

01 Mar 2025
News

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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2019 G&WS: Interview with Dolly Chugh on “The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias”

April 2025
Article

Dynamic Silos: Increased Modularity and Decreased Stability in Intra-organizational Communication Networks During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Tiona Zuzul, Emily Cox Pahnke, Jonathan Larson, Christopher White, Patrick Bourke, Nicholas Caurvina, Neha Parikh Shah, Fereshteh Amini, Youngser Park, Joshua Vogelstein, Jeffrey Weston and Carey E. Priebe

Workplace communications around the world were drastically altered by COVID-19, related work-from-home orders, and the rise of remote work. To understand these shifts, we analyzed aggregated, anonymized metadata from over 360 billion emails within 4,361 organizations... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; COVID-19; Communication Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation