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  • 05 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

person. As prior research has shown, this type of envy can be toxic in the workplace, stifling worker productivity, leading employees to behave less cooperatively, interfering with group cohesion, and making people feel more justified in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2025
  • Article

Transitioning Into Retirement: The Interplay of Self and Life Structure

By: Marcy Crary, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, Kathy E. Kram, Teresa M. Amabile and Lotte Bailyn
This paper explores the psychological, social, and behavioral ways in which professionals end their corporate careers and reorient themselves and their lives in the transition from employment to retirement. Framed within life course theory, specifically the adult... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Behavior; Transition; Identity
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  • October 2020
  • Article

Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance

By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can decrease their service time, up to a point, in order to complete work... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Knowledge Work; Discretion; Workload; Employees; Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity
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  • 10 Feb 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Chris Blattman, Associate Professor, Columbia SIPA

  • 20 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Language Wars Divide Global Companies

Rod, this prior work is advanced to examine how language differences in subgroups can create an "us versus them" dynamic among workers, and how those schisms are linked to who holds power in firms. The study follows 96 workers... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

in unethical acts and policies if we use a few strategies: Reduce the risk of speaking up. Workers and managers who want to speak out should develop a game plan just in case speaking out results in being fired. View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 10 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

enough to encourage an employee to report it. At the same time, we know that thousands of workers still die or get injured due to workplace safety violations. But in securities fraud or tax fraud, where the penalties can be in the... View Details
Keywords: by April White
  • Web

Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Interview Process Next Spreading the Word Spreading the Word This is the most important book on the subject which has appeared in recent years. It should be read by every industrial and social administrator, by industrial and social View Details
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

obvious to them that we didn't have to give this additional compensation, but that we had chosen to." The gift "signaled that we had done something nice for them which they may want to reciprocate." And they did reciprocate, with higher productivity. Indeed, the "gift"... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

conduct an analysis to determine how companies were responding to the crisis. Were they retaining their staff and providing essential workers with extra pay, or were they cutting expenses through layoffs and furloughs? "It gave us a rare... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Web

Building the On-Demand Workforce - Managing the Future of Work

benefit from this trend? What are the implications for workers and what choices are policymakers weighing? Digital platforms for highly skilled freelancers are set to broker more strategic engagements for businesses needing extra capacity... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

Many readers picked up on this and used the text for their own purposes. While we know from individual workers’ autobiographies that Franklin inspired many to lead more economic lives, statesmen could embrace the text because more industrious View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 27 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

they could decide whether to continue working or take personal time during a two-month severance period. While most workers took the two months off to find a new job or take a break, the woman kept showing up to the office, and when new... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Aug 2020
  • Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

The U.S. Job Search for International Students

students to get work visas at larger companies? The most common, and sought after, long-term skilled visa category in the U.S. is the H-1B Temporary Specialty Worker classification. H-1B visas do require sponsorship from the employer and... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated According to a recent Gallup survey, less... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

action.” Yakult delivers water and instant noodles to survivors They are called the “Yakult Ladies,” a team that delivers probiotic drinks manufactured by Yakult to customers’ homes. Shortly after the earthquake and tsunami destroyed Fukushima, CEO Hiromi Watanabe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Building From the Bottom Up - Managing the Future of Work

Research Research Building From the Bottom Up (pdf) Building From the Bottom Up (pdf) What business can do to strengthen the bottom line by investing in front-line workers By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman America’s lowest earners are... View Details
  • 10 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

them—a familiar scenario that plays out at a lot of companies. “Merely increasing the number of employees from underrepresented groups and trying to be inclusive isn’t enough,” Ely says. “Instead, companies that are intent on diversifying should consider whether their... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

about the treatment of workers and CEO pay rank highest—higher than concerns about workforce diversity and fossil energy usage; (iii) moral universalism emerges as an important driver of nonpecuniary preferences. Combined, our findings... View Details