Job Satisfaction - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)

that are needed to electrify fleets. What is your role at Highland? I'm the Chief Operating Officer at Highland. I have an amazing job that spans how we choose and procure the technology for projects to how we work with local communities... View Details

18 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

that are needed to electrify fleets. What is your role at Highland? I'm the Chief Operating Officer at Highland. I have an amazing job that spans how we choose and procure the technology for projects to how we work with local communities... View Details

14 Jan 2019
Blog Post

"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets

"As we look at the series of decisions we had to make as a couple, we recognize professional satisfaction is important to both of us–so we start there." In fact, one key decision had been made years earlier: the two would return to New... View Details

26 Jan 2016
First Look

January 26, 2016

goal-directed prospection, partially offsetting the strain of commuting. In a field experiment, individuals asked to engage in goal-directed prospecting during commuting reported higher levels of job View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

jobs and work-life balance, and perceptions of team collaboration, efficiency, and effectiveness. What, if anything, is wrong with this picture? (In spite of differences in labor law in the US and other countries, survey data suggest... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

01 Dec 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

data mining to coding. Eventually, there will be industries that are fully automated and certain jobs will go away, but new ones will be created in that process. From Baker Library: Not surprisingly, high tech and telecom firms are the... View Details

Keywords: April White

17 Mar 2017
News

Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)

Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012) took a rather winding path to HBS. She first travelled south to earn her undergraduate degree in engineering at Duke University and then to the West Coast for a master’s in accounting from the University of... View Details

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

on how best to reward their workers in ways that will bring them greater job satisfaction and motivate them to work harder. When recruiting, emphasize benefits Talking up a job’s perks, such as flexible work... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

engagement? To answer these questions, we utilized self-determination theory to examine whether reward satisfaction predicted employee well-being, job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and affective... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: No Magic Bullet

be hindering your performance? Understanding yourself is critical to the choices you make in your life. Making the most of your opportunities. Do you match strengths, weaknesses, passions, and who you are with your current job or a... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

that they make, for example, is believing that they’ll actually find satisfaction through money, power, and fame. Sooner or later, they become a success addict. If you’re an alcoholic, you can’t actually drink so much alcohol that you’re... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: Nancy J. Karch

working for a consulting firm the summer after her first year at HBS, as well as her strong academic record, landed her a job at McKinsey's New York office upon graduation. "I figured I'd stay a few years," says Karch, "until it no longer... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Web

Bibliography - The Art of American Advertising

(January 1904): 29—36. Sherman, Sidney A. “Advertising in the United States.” Publications of the American Statistical Association , vol. 7, no. 52 (December 1900): 199—262. Full text available as networked resource (Google login required) Strasser, Susan. View Details

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

Photography by Tori Soper Rodney Quainton (MBA 1970) had always wanted to be a banker. At Yale (Class of 1962), courses on money management and banking attracted him. “At that time,” he recalls, “banking was considered an honorable profession.” Right out of college, he... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1998
News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

than a million microentrepreneurs - more than half of them women - and creating or strengthening some one million jobs in low-income communities. What kind of impact has that made? A good example is Banco Solidario, or BancoSol, in... View Details

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

operations where there are established techniques in inventory management and reengineering, there are no obvious and permanent cost-cutting results to be gained through marketing, short of simply slashing the advertising budget. In addition, marketing is not naturally... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

research , Buell and Norton had experimented with customer satisfaction in travel and dating websites. They found that when these sites visually showed the effort being exerted by the site during searches or transactions, customers were... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

are," he said. Good managers, he added, should "value what others devalue." "If marketing is the priority, look at manufacturing," Thomas suggested. Seeking Balance In the end, though, all the panelists said job... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

01 Jun 1997
News

MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96

summer work experience," says Wheelwright. "They've had the same opportunity as their September classmates to find a great position, and they've expressed great satisfaction with this opportunity." Foundations Wheelwright notes that the... View Details

28 Apr 2025
Blog Post

How to onboard recently graduated MBAs

shared expectations can become more complex.To reduce friction and increase mutual satisfaction in the workplace, Brennan suggests a variety of policies and perspectives that can make onboarding more successful: In-person relationships... View Details