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  • 2013
  • Work/Family

Pamela Stone Speaks at the 2013 Gender & Work Symposium

    Y.V. Reddy

    Keywords: Banking
    • Research Summary

    Research Interests

    Dissent in Organizations, Employee and Stakeholder voice, Social Movements and Organizations, Sociology of Work and Professions

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    • May 2018
    • Article

    The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work

    By: Andrew Brodsky and Teresa M. Amabile
    Although both media commentary and academic research have focused much attention on the dilemma of employees being too busy, this paper presents evidence of the opposite phenomenon, in which employees do not have enough work to fill their time and are left with hours... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Working Conditions; Performance Consistency; Performance Productivity
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    • 05 May 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

    Despite the wrongdoings that have convulsed corporate America in recent months, SEC Commissioner Harvey J. Goldschmid believes that the business world is on the mend. "I have a very optimistic view," he said. "Out of scandal comes healing View Details
    Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

    employees,” who are more likely to be White or Asian, Zhang says. Likewise, Black people make up a higher percentage of the population in the South, where workers have fewer workplace protections compared to the Northeast and Silicon... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

    other journalists. Analyzing the responses and drawing upon decades of academic research on institutional dynamics and careers, they detail how journalists have reconciled the moral calling of their View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 09 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

    foreseeable future. The teaching profession itself will need to undergo radical changes, said Salinas, where teachers need more training—to use technology among other skills—and more support in terms of salaries, staffing plans, View Details
    Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education
    • 30 Sep 2021

    HBS Perspectives in Health: Healthy Buildings and Productivity – Organizational Imperatives Pre, During, and Post Covid

    HBS Professor John Macomber will lead a discussion with Joseph Joe Allen, Director of the Healthy Buildings program and an Associate Professor at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health. They will share their insights into what makes... View Details
    • 07 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

    induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s and instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on pre-existing settlement patterns. Immigration increased natives’ employment View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Aug 2012
    • News

    Something for the weekend

    • 2017
    • Report

    Room to Grow: Identifying New Frontiers for Apprenticeships

    By: Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Sigelman
    In the United States, apprentices are employed in just 27 occupations, mostly in skilled, physical trades. An analysis of job postings data shows that extending apprenticeships to more occupations provides an opportunity to expand employment and close the middle skills... View Details
    Keywords: Employment; Training; Competency and Skills; Personal Development and Career; United States
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    • 30 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

    The gender punishment gap in hiring and firing dissipates at firms with a greater percentage of female managers at the firm or local branch level. The gender punishment gap is not driven by gender differences in View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 17 Dec 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

    Your company is forming an intrapreneurial venture, and has asked you to join the start-up team. Is this a career pick-me-up, or occupational suicide? It could be either one, View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

    impact of immigration on native men’s employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of “marriageable men.” We explore alternative mechanisms—changes in sex ratios, natives’ cultural... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 16 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

    percentage rent above a specified revenue threshold. Normatively, the industry seeks to spend no more than 10 percent of revenue on occupancy costs, but when entering leases, restaurateurs may well be optimistic about their projected... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
    • 15 May 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

    case protagonist recently joined a new data science team at the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a government agency, and needs to evaluate View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 02 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

    occupation or possession by grant/gift, and tributary or chieftaincy. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54766 Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 1, 2008

    Jobs Might Be Offshorable?" Authors:Troy Smith and Jan W. Rivkin Abstract In a 2007 working paper, Alan Blinder assessed the "offshorability" of hundreds of U.S. occupations View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

    native men and women. We show that these effects were driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman