Meanings Of Work And Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2022
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Adam Grant's Seven Commandments for Successful Hybrid Work

Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed researchers in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book is based on a decade of research and over 200 interviews with... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Working the Street

my time with the companies I worked for,” says Timken, who envisions returning to business (perhaps in Europe, perhaps with a start-up) when he retires from the El Monte force in ten years. “But when I... View Details

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31 Oct 2019
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Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup

simultaneously deploying resources to serve local nonprofits and community groups. “I just had this idea to get these two different leaders from very different organizations together to hear how they work to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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What Google, Lego, and Other Brands Know About the Promise and Peril of AI | Working Knowledge

Data and Technology What Google, Lego, and Other Brands Know About the Promise and Peril of AI Featuring Julian De Freitas View Details

24 Sep 2021
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AI Use in Hiring Means Women with Employment Gaps Get Overlooked

April 2022
Article

Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others

By: Ximena Garcia-Rada, Mary Steffel, Elanor F. Williams and Michael I. Norton

Many products and services are designed to make caregiving easier, from premade meals for feeding families to robo-cribs that automatically rock babies to sleep. Yet, using these products may come with a cost: consumers may feel they have not exerted enough effort.... View Details

Keywords: Effor; Caregiving; Close Relationships; Symbolic Meaning; Signaling; Relationships; Consumer Behavior; Perception

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13 May 2002
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Bringing the Master Passions to Work

temperament." The workings of what we now call reason spring from a primitive emotion—our anxiety at being alive and thrust toward an end past which we cannot see with any... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

19 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

help families save money for college. That experience convinced me of the power of for-profit, mission-driven companies as a force for change. Because they are for-profit, they can attract amazing talent... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology

04 Apr 2023
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How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

OK, so they could just as easily have seen a post from Larry Page online if they had still been working after 5 p.m. on a Friday afternoon. Working from their homes and seeing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Hidden Workers, Part-Time Potential - Managing the Future of Work

large sub-set of hidden workers: part-time workers, who indicated in our survey that if their circumstances were different, they would prefer to work more hours. Part-time workers are heterogeneous, with a... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

others feel that the growing attention to the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

06 Aug 2020
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Defining Flex Work

“We’re still using terms like telework and telecommute, says Auerbach. “The reality is—even as someone who works so deeply in this field—I actually can’t tell you what those things mean.” Modernizing the... View Details

29 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

know of the existence of the other groups. One group was given a lower starting pay rate ($3 per hour) and another a higher one ($4 per hour). Evaluating the View Details

Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette

February 2025
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Sale of Private Equity–Owned Physician Practices and Physician Turnover

By: Victoria Berquist, Lev Klarnet and Leemore Dafny

Private equity (PE) ownership of physician practices is increasing, with owners targeting sales, or exits, in 3 to 7 years. Little is known about the association of exit with physician retention and subsequent employment. Using panel data over the period 2014-2020, we... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Retention; Health Industry

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Building From the Bottom Up - Managing the Future of Work

shippers, grocery clerks, servers, healthcare assistants, housekeepers, and janitors. Despite working long hours in difficult jobs, many of these workers are trapped in... View Details

06 Mar 2019
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In a Kylie Jenner world, what does it mean to be a 'self-made' billionaire?

17 Sep 2013
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The Simple Way to Leave Your Stress at Work

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

the deeper meaning of work is part of a significant change occurring in the way work is being perceived View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

September–October 2023
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What Does 'Stakeholder Capitalism' Mean to You?: A Guide to the Four Main Types

By: Lynn S. Paine

Business leaders are being urged to adopt a multistakeholder approach to governance in place of the shareholder-centered approach that has guided their work for several decades. But through hundreds of interviews with directors, executives, investors, governance... View Details

Keywords: Stakeholder Capitalism; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Structure; Trust

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