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  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

after an event passes, according to recent research based on a survey examining French firms with fewer than 250 employees during the global financial crisis last decade. Conducted over a seven-year period starting in 2008, the research... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 06 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

managers observed frontline staff work with particular attention to patient safety issues and facilitated open discussion meetings with employees about their safety-related concerns. Data Collection:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

zones As companies expand operations across the globe, they must grapple with time gaps during which employees cannot collaborate (i.e., lost productivity). To study this phenomenon, a research team studied communication patterns among... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2020
  • In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.  We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

what could become a wildly successful company, but I also want to make sure my kids have health insurance. If I have this outside option, if I have access to public health insurance, then I'm more likely to join. The founders of the next Google or Facebook are happy... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

now at a level of reasonable safety to open up. Much media attention has been paid to easing restrictions—basically increasing the available supply of offices, restaurants, colleges, stores, and factories. “Will shoppers, diners,... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

violations to auditors of the same gender—thinking they may be more likely to be believed and less likely to be punished. Significantly, mixed-gender teams did no better than all-female teams in uncovering violations, meaning perhaps the male View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make... View Details
Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

As every company knows, employees are its greatest resource. It's more than a shame, then, that many workers are either not encouraged or afraid to speak up and communicate ideas at work. Employers are losing valuable knowledge and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 04 May 2016
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

but people will still refer to it as Boaty I say take the gift and run with it!” Frank D. did indeed run with it, suggesting that “The life boats could be Life Boaties. He (apparently referring to the gender of the boat) could teach kids science lessons and water View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

it." Still, companies around the country are managing to pick their way through such uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter, managers and View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

excellence in these areas; designing management systems that help employees to succeed at their jobs; and training their customers. Q: To be a great service company, do you have to be equally good at all of those? A: Frei: We usually... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

promoting it a personal mission. Many had experienced what it was like to be an outsider, which gave them a deeper understanding of the barriers that women, in particular, face at work. The CEOs resoundingly agreed that an inclusive environment was one in which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

small-business owners trying to survive. Strict safety protocols haven’t been enough to get customers through the door for some small businesses, and many owners—crushed by inventory and overhead costs—are grappling with hard choices.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 13 Jul 2022
  • Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

long. She could not help but think the American Dream, or even just the chance to live a dignified life, was out of reach no matter how early she left for work or how late she stayed. Because she had been in charge of workers’ safety at a... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

transformed into a truly global enterprise with 127,000 employees of 153 nationalities in 140 countries generating $56.7 billion in 2012 revenues and $9.6 billion in net income, making the firm one of the world's largest and most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

and unequal, there is little direct evidence on the magnitude and sources of these frictions. We conduct a field experiment with 752 employees at a multibillion-dollar corporation to address these questions. We provide evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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