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Managing the Future of Work
Coverage ‘Misfits’ in Power: When a Company Needs a Leader CEO, But Gets a Manager Re: Raffaella Sadun 12 Jun 2025 | HBS Working Knowledge Your Employees Are Also Caregivers Re: Joseph Fuller 22 May 2025 |... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
coverage from Working Knowledge Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Critical Mass for some months was in the process of implementing a new program for remote work called Liquid.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2010
- News
Jobs 2.0: Nice Work If You Can Get It
- February 2004 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Pratt & Whitney: Engineering Standard Work
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
As the engineering of state-of-the-art jet engines becomes more and more complex, Pratt & Whitney leaders face major competitive problems. Product development projects are not meeting the cost, quality, and lead-time targets. The leadership develops a design,... View Details
Keywords: Design; Engineering; Cost; Knowledge Management; Time Management; Product Launch; Standards; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Quality; Creativity; Competitive Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Pratt & Whitney: Engineering Standard Work." Harvard Business School Case 604-084, February 2004. (Revised March 2006.)
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
people’s “realtime” experiences as they worked on creative projects. What were you looking for, specifically? We wanted to get inside the hearts and minds of knowledge workers to better understand the... View Details
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
At the gambling meccas that employ them, they are called "casino hosts"—essentially front-line employees with nevertheless big responsibilities. These staffers work to develop one-on-one relationships with high-rollers to make sure they... View Details
- May 2016
- Article
Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants
I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them at geographically distant R&D locations. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I... View Details
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants." Journal of Economic Geography 16, no. 3 (May 2016): 585–610.
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
June 2012 working paper, Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program. Tucker is an associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit, and the Marvin Bower Fellow at HBS.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 11 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Casey O'Connor
recruiters. During that time, I developed a strong understanding of what our students are looking for, and I am excited to share my knowledge with recruiters. What about your new role are you most looking forward to? I View Details
- May 2007
- Article
Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
Anyone in management knows that employees have their good days and their bad days and that, for the most part, the reasons for their ups and downs are unknown. Most managers simply shrug their shoulders at this fact of work life. But does it matter, in terms of... View Details
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steven J. Kramer. "Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 5 (May 2007).
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
interaction between co-workers, and “sequential interdependence,” which involves a series of tasks performed by different employees. POLL Do you prefer to work remotely? We're asking Working View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Podcasts - Managing the Future of Work
augmenting traditional GDP metrics to capture the value of digital goods and services. Cal Newport on slow productivity and next-wave AI 12 MAR 2025 | Managing the Future of Work Joe Fuller welcomes back the Georgetown computer scientist... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
South Asian Women at Work
at it.” For a full report on this and other student conferences, visit the “HBS Conference Coverage” section of HBS Working Knowledge at www.workingknowledge.hbs.edu. View Details
- November–December 2020
- Article
Our Work-from-Anywhere Future
The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while workers can... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Best Practices; Employment; Health Pandemics; Geographic Location; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Our Work-from-Anywhere Future." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 6 (November–December 2020).
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
(@HarvardHBS) in which Working Knowledge makes experts available to Instagram users to ask questions about their research. What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned in your research? Choudhury: One of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 2005
- Working Paper
Silent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations
By: James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson
This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people working in organizational hierarchies wrestle with the challenge of upward voice. We first undertook in-depth exploratory research in a knowledge-intensive multinational corporation in which employee input... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Working Conditions; Knowledge Management; Attitudes; Organizational Culture
Detert, James R., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Silent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-024, December 2005. (Revised October 2006, December 2008.)
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
that health care organizations typically fail to analyze or make changes even when people are well aware of failures. Whether medical errors or simply problems in the work process, few hospital organizations dig deeply enough to... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
Careers Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work Careers Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work Taking a step back is common, but there are plenty of avenues to help you return to the workforce. Explore some of the reasons... View Details
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
adoption, participants are no better than others. Little evidence suggests that adopting such programs leads participants to improve faster, says Toffel. Government-initiated programs, however, show more mixed results. Toffel met with HBS View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace