Workplace Wellness - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

discriminant validity from voice-related individual and organizational factors and their incremental predictive validity on workplace silence. Collectively, the results from the four studies indicate the prevalence of implicit voice... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

Diversity in the Workplace Harvard Business School Case 407-029 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407029 Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank Harvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

percent voted for him—the lowest percentage of all groups--reflecting, perhaps, their concern about the treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system as well as their recognition of Clinton’s stronger support of minorities and her... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

will recognize that risk management is only part of the story and that the benefits of positive values go well beyond problem avoidance.— Lynn S. Paine In recent years, however, I have seen more attention being paid to the positive side... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

employers or share feedback about their workplaces are Indeed and Great Place to Work. These kinds of machine-learning techniques could be used by regulators in deciding where to target scarce resources on which firms to examine, as View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

30 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay

particularly young people: the diverse, inclusive workplaces they’ve worked hard to develop. “Job seekers are more likely to click on job ads for firms with high diversity scores when presented with this information.” “Job seekers are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

lowers it.” Everyday unethical behaviors Gino and Kouchaki conducted a series of studies to compare people’s memory for their own unethical actions with their memory of other life events, as well as their memory of other people’s... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

companies that offer internships to cultivate talent, including JPMorgan Chase, Deloitte, and PepsiCo, to roll out virtual programs in 2020. The study’s findings offer reassurance to the 81 percent of companies offering virtual or hybrid internships this year, as View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

student made a Choose Your Own Adventure computer game about making the right choices in a workplace environment. (When Frei played the game, "I ended up getting fired.") One of the most moving projects in the class, she says,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

prevalent workplace emotions such as envy and admiration, as well as additional techniques for coping with anxiety, such as applying the elaborate rituals athletes employ before competing to a business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

2013 joined Stanford University as an assistant professor of management science and engineering. Valentine says one caveat of the quantitative improvement is that the hospital was not performing as well as its peers before the redesign.... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

result of COVID- 19,” the researchers conclude. “This would represent a dramatic and persistent shift in workplace norms around remote work, and has implications for companies, employees, and policymakers alike.” The working paper, What... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

the new tools at their disposal. Orientation and training: Hiring managers should provide employees with electronic versions of important company documents that will help orient them to the company’s culture, as well as its policies and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

way things are, like water to a fish or the air we breathe. What's to notice? What's to change? To make progress on this problem, people must take risks, learn new ways, experiment. The notion that the basic organizing principles that govern View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

20 Jan 2022
Op-Ed

3 Steps to Help Companies Rebuild Trust During the Pandemic

share in taking responsibility, since there is a role for senior leaders who made the decisions as well as the managers who carried them out, and trust needs to be repaired at both levels. 2. Explain the company’s actions. Second, leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

01 Sep 2006
What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

may work well when team sizes are small and there are limited personality conflicts." Ashutosh Tiwari, while questioning whether self-management could "prove its effectiveness in the long run," concluded that it might work... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

doing is meaningful anymore." It’s well understood that doctors are constantly asked to do more with less. In addition to a demand for physicians that outstrips the supply, new laws around electronic record-keeping have increased the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

race on people’s behavior. Performance, too, is tricky to gauge objectively. “Most workplaces have a rough measure of productivity, but that is usually biased itself.” The NBA, however, obsessively tracks every action of every player,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) unit. “My intended audience includes managers at companies as well as policymakers and regulators—seeking to inform and, to be sure, persuade these folks.” In the course of his research,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

information—and it sat on managers' shelves. No follow-up ever took place. You're probably laughing—or wincing—in recognition of what has become a familiar tale of corporate change efforts. Indeed, with all the transformation efforts going on these days, the View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

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