Publications

SSRN

2004
Article

Do Firms Change Capabilities by Hiring New People? A Study of the Adoption of Science-based Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Nicola Lacetera and Iain Cockburn

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Change; Science; Health; Information

March 2025
Case

Taylor Guitars: Making Employee Ownership Work the Taylor Way

By: Dennis Campbell, Petros Kusmu and Stacy Straaberg

In 2013, guitar manufacturer Taylor Guitars’ co-founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug were considering several exit options including selling to a competitor or to a private equity firm. The co-founders decided, instead, to embark on a seven-year process to transfer 100%... View Details

Educators

Purchase

28 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

wellness programs built on a “set-it-and-forget-it” mentality are often undervalued and inadequate in supporting employees’ needs, both on and off the job. Gartner’s 2021 Employee Value Proposition Benchmarking Survey revealed that... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

05 Oct 2017
Cold Call Podcast

How to Promote Home Delivery of Prescription Drugs? Give Employees a 'Nudge'

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Health

Teaching Interest

Harnessing Employee Talent: The Diversity Advantage

This course offers a comprehensive examination of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) within organizational contexts, focusing on practical strategies for fostering inclusive environments and driving positive change. Furthermore, this course... View Details

2012
Talk

Cleaning House: The Impact of Information Technology on Employee Corruption and Performance

By: Daniel Snow

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

conventions, and peculiarities. Ask me anything The researchers then chose 10 real questions from a pool of 148 that came from new hires at a recent “ask me anything” session and put them to both the CEO and... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

July 2022
Article

The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others

By: Ke Wang, Erica R. Bailey and Jon M. Jachimowicz

Employees are increasingly exhorted to “pursue their passion” at work. Inherent in this call is the belief that passion will produce higher performance because it promotes intrapersonal processes that propel employees forward. Here, we suggest that the pervasiveness of... View Details

Keywords: Passion; Self-fufilling Prophecy; Lay Beliefs; Interpersonal Processes; Employees; Performance; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Social Psychology

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Hiring Teams, Firms and Lawyers: Evidence of the Evolving Relationships in the Corporate Legal Market

By: Ashish Nanda, Michele DeStefano Beardslee, John C. Coates and David B. Wilkins

30 Aug 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Consumers Punish Firms that Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19

Keywords: by Bhavya Mohan, Serena Hagerty, and Michael Norton

05 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

remarkable stability. WESCO International. The industrial company is known for moving entry-level employees into new roles. U.S. Bank. More than 45 percent of the bank’s 2022 View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

fall 2007
Article

An Empirical Study of System Improvement by Frontline Employees in Hospital Units

By: A. L. Tucker

Keywords: Information; System; Employees; Health; Health Industry

Article

Can Wages Buy Honesty?: The Relationship Between Relative Wages and Employee Theft

By: C. X. Chen and Tatiana Sandino

In this study we examine whether, for a sample of retail chains, high levels of employee compensation can deter employee theft, an increasingly common type of fraudulent behavior. Specifically, we examine the extent to which relative wages (i.e., employee wages... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Behavior; Compensation and Benefits; Societal Protocols

SSRN

January 2025
Article

Overcoming Barriers to Employee Ownership: Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

By: John Guzek and Ashley Whillans

This research investigates the limited adoption of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) among small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. Through interviews with 30 SMB owners across various industries, we identify the key barriers to ESOP adoption as lack of... View Details

Keywords: Profit Sharing; Employee Ownership; Management Practices and Processes; Compensation and Benefits; Small Business; Adoption; Employees

27 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

The retail business is not for the faint of heart. Turning a consistent profit requires navigating many variables, such as hiring capable staff, ordering the right products at the right time, and complying... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail

December 2021
Article

Employee Responses to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm

By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton

What are the long-term consequences of compensation changes? Using data from an inbound sales call center, we study employee responses to a compensation change that ultimately reduced take-home pay by 7% for the average affected worker. The change caused a significant... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Wages; Compensation and Benefits; Change; Performance; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Analysis

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

Black employees are being sorted into lower-quality workplaces, even within the same occupation or geographic region. “Firms with better work environments are presumably more attractive to employees,” Zhang says. “So at the point View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

motivators that will entice greater effort and loyalty out of workers. Turns out, using cash as a carrot isn’t always the best answer, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans. More than... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Guest Column

Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?

By: Christopher G. Myers

Is your company encouraging employees to share what they know? Too much expertise is going to waste. Many of the things we need to know to be successful—to innovate, collaborate, solve problems, and identify new opportunities—aren't learned simply through schooling,... View Details

Keywords: Vicarious Learning; Learning And Development; Learning Organizations; Knowledge Sharing; Organizations; Employees; Learning