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  • 16 Nov 2011
  • News

What Your Boss Needs to Know About Engagement

  • 26 Feb 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on Complementarities Between Human Capital and Machine Learning

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr, and Rajshree Agarwal; Information Technology
  • October 2015
  • Article

The Value of Bosses

By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality... View Details
Keywords: Supervisors; Management Skills; Employees; Performance Productivity
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  • 06 Jun 2021
  • News

Did You Know? Rainy Days Are Great For Your Productivity, Says Study

  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

By: Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Working Conditions; Service Delivery; Performance Productivity; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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  • 18 Aug 2018
  • News

Disrupted Teams are Rewriting the Rules of Office(less) Politics

  • 04 Sep 2013
  • News

Why businesses should let employees work less, think more

  • 22 Sep 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Task and Temporal Microstructure of Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Financial Services

Keywords: by Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino; Banking

    Firm-Induced Migration Paths and Strategic Human-Capital Outcomes

    Firm-induced migration typically entails firms relocating workers to fill value-creating positions at destination locations. But such relocated workers are often exposed to external employment opportunities at their destinations, possibly triggering turnover. We... View Details

    • 16 Apr 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India

    Keywords: by Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade, and Vincent Pons; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • 29 Jul 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

    Github, among others, were 4.4 percent more productive than those following a more traditional “work-from-home” policy that gives schedule flexibility but requires workers to live near the office. “While... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 01 Mar 2014
    • News

    Seeing Is Deceiving

    • 28 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

    employees, and watching productivity plummet. “At a time when workers continue to quietly quit and many companies are struggling to fill openings, it’s especially important for employers to revamp their... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson
    • 16 Nov 2021
    • HBS Case

    How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

    Markets Unit at HBS. The cases hold a crucial lesson for business leaders: Tormenting workers can result in dire consequences. While the cases describe an extreme example, Montgomery wonders if the improper pressure tactics used at France... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 22 Feb 2012
    • News

    Employee Happiness Matters More Than You Think

    • 20 Aug 2012
    • News

    Compensation Practices & Incentives

    • 22 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

    diverge from the typical nine-to-five. Contrary to some expectations—but consistent with years of research—that flexibility has actually spurred worker productivity to improve. In polls that Neeley has taken... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Research Summary

    Manager Specific Human Capital Investment: A Model of Block Trading and Firm Stability

    I develop a model in which workers can undertake specific human capital investments in the firm and in the manager employed by the firm. If the manager leaves the firm, a worker has to decide whether to join her in the new firm or stay in the old firm. In case of... View Details
    • 27 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

    The retail business is not for the faint of heart. Turning a consistent profit requires navigating many variables, such as hiring capable staff, ordering the right products at the right time, and complying with a litany of regulations.... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail
    • August 2014
    • Case

    Three Jays Corporation

    By: Paul Marshall and Mark Davis
    Brodie Arens is an MBA student and summer intern at Three Jays Corporation, a jam and jelly manufacturer in Michigan. Brodie's first assignment as an intern is to update the inventory and production planning system. Initially, he begins by updating the Economic Order... View Details
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