employee scheduling - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)

with all of her colleagues to work from home due to COVID-19. Stephan has worked remotely since 2001 in various roles in banking, recruiting, and education and was the first ever remote employee at Morgan Stanley. Their two different... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy

in a service business, selling the plan is paramount to everything else.” Specific actions of regaining employee trust included eliminating severance packages for management, updating an archaic scheduling... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

inflexible or unpredictable work schedules, and employers’ failure to grasp how employees are struggling and to provide them with support, according to a new Harvard Business School report. That disregard harms both workers and companies.... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

24 Apr 2014
News

Necessity became the mother of invention for staffing-firm founder

development firm that matches qualified professionals—women and men—who want flexible schedules with businesses in need of high-caliber services. “It doesn't make a lot of sense to lose talent just because we aren't having conversations... View Details

22 Sep 2017
News

Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity

that are ideal for testing software as well as for working in cybersecurity and analytics. “These employees have found errors, faults, and gaps in IT systems that have gone undetected for years,” Fieldhouse says, adding Dandelion has been... View Details

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Bekkers. Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date Knowing how to keep a conversation going can improve your career as well as your social life, according to research by Alison Wood Brooks and colleagues. Why Productivity Suffers When View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

Year’s resolution. To turn a fitness aspiration into a habit, experts often recommend that people adopt rigid exercise routines and rituals, scheduling workouts or sleeping in running clothes, for example. But new research suggests that... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

While much of Luca’s work focuses on the tech sector, he sees opportunities for valuable tests in a variety of business settings. Here are just a couple of the many questions that experiments can help answer: How do employees value... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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

16 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

disclosed by a social rating agency, we find empirical evidence that supports our hypotheses. We present implications for theory and public policy. Download paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCompensating Family View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Fast Answer

Workplace Diversity: Data Sources

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data via the Bloomberg terminal in the Stamps Reading Room. Information is available for public companies only, but includes % of minority and women employees and managers. ... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Status Update

on KLM airline’s use of the Facebook Messenger platform for customer care, says Levine, and Walmart’s employee training program, which features Oculus Go’s virtual reality headsets. No stranger to the Facebook family, Levine came to the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2023
News

Happy Monday

employees felt about the program and how they were using it. “We’ve never seen our employees answer a survey so fast. Usually it takes some follow-up, but we had results within 15 minutes,” observes... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana

employees across a variety of functions worked remotely and in January 2020, Humana was ranked 15th most flexible workplace in the U.S. by FlexJobs. Humana has earned this reputation by offering remote work arrangements, using a variety... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health-Related Services

08 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

shows how they addressed the formidable challenge of the internment of their employees in British camps during both WWI and WWII. We find that internment impacted business relationships in India well beyond its endpoint and that the WWI... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2020
Blog Post

“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis

growing portfolio of investments across Asia, Africa, and Latin America with employees around the world. So while the team at Actis was no stranger to having staff working in various locations, the 10 week Summer Associate Programme had... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Other Financial Services

09 Apr 2025
News

The Working Parent Revolution

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details

19 Dec 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

New Year, New Habits

number of actions that build society. The following studies reveal proven methods of encouraging healthy eating and exercise. A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety Basic tweaks to the schedules of food safety... View Details