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  • 08 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

It would seem to make sense that when companies recognize their workers with awards, they are likely to see a boost in morale and perhaps even inspire them to work harder. It turns out that sometimes rewarding employees for good behavior... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service
  • Web

Research - Managing the Future of Work

Nik Dawson, Alex Martin, and Gad Levanon Mar 2023 Report Hidden Workers - Part-Time Potential By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, & Francis Hintermann Dec 2022 Report The Partnership Imperative - Community Colleges, Employers, &... View Details
  • Web

The Hawthorne Plant – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction Next The Hawthorne Plant The Hawthorne Plant Any company controlling many thousand workers tends to lack any satisfactory... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together

rituals also tend to go the extra mile for the company, showing better “organizational citizenship” by doing things like staying late at work to help a colleague. Such rituals don’t just boost morale. Companies reap huge benefits when View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 11 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

success could also influence people’s perceptions of workers in various jobs, particularly low-wage positions, the researchers say. “This overemphasis on effort could lead people to believe that workers in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • January 2014
  • Case

Social Strategy at Cisco Systems

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Daniel Malter and Aaron Smith
In April 2013, Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, vice president and general manager for Learning@Cisco Systems, was planning the future of the Cisco Learning Network, an online platform hosted at Cisco.com. Since its launch in 2008, the Cisco Learning Network provided content to... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Competency and Skills; Learning; Web Services Industry
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  • 2013
  • Contribution

Work

By: Nien-he Hsieh
This chapter has two aims. First, in light of the continued dominance of market capitalism, one aim of the chapter is to examine contemporary approaches to traditional concerns about the impact of market capitalism on the manner in which work is carried out. By the... View Details
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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership

By: D. E. Meyerson, R. Ely and Laura Wernick
In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for their masculine displays of bravado and their interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Safety; Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Practice; Gender; Business Processes; Energy Industry
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  • April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
  • Case

Handy: The Future of Work? (A)

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth
Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details
Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States
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  • May 2024
  • Teaching Note

Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning: Overcoming Onshore Challenges to Offshore Wind

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-113. To activate the first wind turbines in the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard eventually supplying clean energy to 400,000 households, Vineyard Wind’s leaders had to navigate the permitting process, numerous delays, and objections from... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Renewable Energy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; Massachusetts; Martha's Vineyard; New Bedford
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  • 29 Mar 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor

Keywords: by Faaiza Rashid & Amy C. Edmondson
  • February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A)

By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide Financial as an example. Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Labor Unions; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • 27 Sep 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Judith Chevalier, Yale School of Management

  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

Lawyers, financial professionals, doctors—these types of workers often expect their abilities to remain steady or grow with time. But Brooks points to data showing that’s not the case. In almost every high-skill profession, he finds,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Web

Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

symbiosis with the local area For instance, at Poderosa, we provide employment—counting our own employees and outsourced workers who do some specific jobs—to over 3,500 people.” Download Transcript Philippines Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala... View Details
  • Web

Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

Bundle Podcast Why Companies and Skilled Workers Are Turning to On-Demand Work Joseph Fuller and Allison Bailey 24 Nov 2020 | HBR IdeaCast Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage Joseph B. Fuller 17 Nov 2020 |... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

no. 11 (November 2009) Article: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/11/what-would-peter-say/ar/1 Teach Workers About the Perils of Debt Authors:Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

drivers, Uber today is arguably as well informed about low-wage workers as the US Department of Labor.) By gathering this information, Uber was able to use the online ads to identify the right drivers. Etsy followed a different track.... View Details
Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
  • 05 Dec 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

you’re an agent or a virtual-tour creator, temper your clients’ expectations and highlight potential benefits, like their ability to reduce showings with unlikely buyers. You Might Also Like: When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai