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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

The launch of ChatGPT seems to have reignited doomsday fears about artificial intelligence (AI) replacing workers en masse. Are these fears prescient or overblown? A recent survey shows 62 percent of Americans think AI will majorly impact work View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

2023 Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy Re: Ashley V. Whillans More Articles Harvard Business Publishing May 14, 2024 Article One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings By: Timothy Flacke View Details
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A Multicountry Perspective on Gender Differences in Time Use During COVID-19

By: Laura M. Giurge, Ashley V. Whillans and Ayse Yemiscigil (shared authorship)
The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered how people spend time, with possible consequences for subjective well-being. Using diverse samples of remote workers from the United States, Canada, Denmark, Brazil, and Spain (n = 31,141), following a preregistered... View Details
Keywords: Time; Subjective Well-being; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Gender; Time Management; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Global Range
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Management 2 results Amy W. Schulman General Management Lumumba B. Seegars Organizational Behavior 1 result Debora L. Spar General Management 2 results Sandra J. Sucher General Management 6 results Matthew C. Weinzierl Business, Government View Details
  • March 2025 (Revised June 2025)
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Designing the Future of Work: Atlassian's Distributed Work Practices

By: Ashley Whillans and Gabriel Rondón Ichikawa
In early 2020, the software company Atlassian made a bold commitment: employees could work from anywhere—forever. While many tech peers reversed course on remote work, Atlassian worked to optimize their fully distributed model across 13 countries. This case follows... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Working Conditions; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Employees; Technology Industry
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  • September 2024
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The Human Side of the Future of Work: Understanding the Role People Play in Shaping a Changing World

By: Jochen I. Menges, Lauren C. Howe, Erika Hall, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Sharon K. Parker, Riki Takeuchi, Abhijeet K. Vadera, Ashley Whillans and Susan K. Cohen
For as long as there has been work, there has been a “future of work,” through humans’ ingenuity and drive to get things done easier, faster, and better. With the industrial revolution, efforts to shape a better future of work were dominated by improvements in... View Details
Keywords: Change; Labor
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  • 26 Feb 2019
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Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

motivators that will entice greater effort and loyalty out of workers. Turns out, using cash as a carrot isn’t always the best answer, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

bring to light something previously ignored, as when Airbnb was forced to confront rampant discrimination by its hosts. Read the full abstract. Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni Take Cold Calls in New York City

focused on 23andMe, whose sale of genetic testing kits directly to consumers was challenged by the Food & Drug Administration. Quelch, who coauthored the case, is also on the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations

Ashley McCray and Brian Ratajczak share their views about the Tulsa Massacre case discussion. This case was different. It seemed impossible to separate emotions from the events that had occurred in the... View Details
Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre
  • 16 Dec 2020
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

injustice. Lewin was a coauthor of the pledge, which has now been signed by some 1,000 CEOs, executives, and supporters. Developed in collaboration with the Leadership Now... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

Lovell began a career in telecommunications. He also coauthored Lost Moon, a book that inspired the movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Lovell now... View Details
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  • 15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar

relaxed. And both the military government and Aung San Suu Kyi's populist party were scrambling in fast forward helter-skelter mode towards the election. And both sides... View Details
Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Benjamin N. Roth Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration Ethan C. Rouen Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration View Details
  • 18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

of consulting firm Ethical Ventures, recently spoke to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about the Business of Racial Equity pledge developed to mobilize the business community to address inequality and injustice. Lewin was a View Details
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Print View - Course Catalog

Harvard College. All Rights Reserved. Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others Course Number 1816 Associate Professor Ashley Whillans Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits View Details