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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
Executive Education programs. With the COVID-19 pandemic transforming our lives at every level, a growing number of students and former students have sought my advice about how to lead in a time of great...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
hire a freelancer? Or how do we get access to one of these platforms? How do we think about our IP [intellectual property]? How do we think about the loss of that knowledge...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
really step in and support the many constituencies that we have in terms of our customers, our community partners, as well as our employees in a number of different ways....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
arrive. So, what the employer-based system has as its particular advantage is that the job is guaranteed. I’m being hired for a job at Microsoft, or I’m being brought into the country for a job at Microsoft. So, that’s a guarantee that...
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
Research Research Featured Reports The Partnership Imperative: Community Colleges, Employers, & America’s Chronic Skills Gap By: Joseph B. Fuller & Manjari Raman Healthy Outcomes: How employers' support for employees with caregiving...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
We’ll also talk about the importance of employee engagement and work-life balance. And we’ll discuss fostering a new wave of enterprise leadership. Dan, welcome to the...
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- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
organization of people working in small teams; crowding employees together in ways that resemble a Stanford dorm room; messiness as a virtue; staying functionally organized as long as possible; one-day...
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- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
most popular stories during the quarter. At the Top of the Trending List How Companies Benefit When Employees Work RemotelyWork from anywhere policies have advanced from a rare occurrence for companies to a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
social channels before hiring candidates. “These temporary-sharing technologies are supposed to solve this problem of the internet never forgetting,” says Leslie K. John, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor...
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by Rachel Layne
- Article
Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems
By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell
Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.
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Perspective;
Opportunities;
Safety;
Performance Efficiency;
System;
Failure;
Conferences;
Employees;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Experience and Expertise;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
United States
Tucker, Anita L., Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell. "Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems." Health Services Research 43, nos. 5, pt.2 (October 2008).
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
can boost the bottom line. Bill Kerr: What do businesses owe their employees apart from a paycheck? Can they afford to see workers in terms other than unit labor cost? Hubert Joly learned the orthodoxies of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
scrap rates.Kerr: Yeah. If in this vicious cycle, if the employee will leave relatively soon anyway, that can reduce my near-term incentives to be making those 45-minute feedback sessions.Fuller: Exactly. I think one View Details
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
in part because their backs were killing them when they worked at home, and they weren’t allowed to bring their office chairs home. The policy communicated a lack of empathy and general cluelessness about the View Details
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by Jen McFarland Flint
- November 2005 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
Leading Change at Simmons (A)
By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Amy C. Edmondson, Stacy McManus and Kate Roloff
Explores the challenge of managing large-scale organizational change at Simmons, an old and established company that manufactures and distributes mattresses. The new CEO, Charlie Eitel, hired to turn the organization's performance around, considers whether to implement...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Leading Change;
Employee Relationship Management;
Manufacturing Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
Casciaro, Tiziana E., Amy C. Edmondson, Stacy McManus, and Kate Roloff. "Leading Change at Simmons (A)." Harvard Business School Case 406-046, November 2005. (Revised May 2007.)
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
strategic consultant. HR as the adviser. HR as the designer of employee experience. HR as the owner of the culture. It’s been escalating year after year after year. And I think...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the additional requirements are stapled on at the end. So what does that have the effect of doing in the hiring process? It means a lot of the requirements may now be...
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actual placements and something related to the numbers of hires or what they’re paid or the types of ways that often job boards or headhunters are paid?Lord: We’re approaching...
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- 2016
- Working Paper
The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus
By: Pradeep Pendem, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Gino
How best to structure the work day is an important operational question for organizations. A key structural consideration is the effective use of breaks from work. Breaks serve the critical purpose of allowing employees to recharge, but in the short term, translate to...
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Breaks;
Productivity;
Attention;
Workload;
Harvesting;
Working Conditions;
Behavior;
Performance Productivity;
Organizations
Pendem, Pradeep, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino. "The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-058, December 2016.
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
Kerr. 23 Mar 2022 News Harvard Business Review The Great Resignation Didn’t Start with the Pandemic By: Joseph Fuller & William Kerr Covid-19 spurred on the Great Resignation of 2021, during which record numbers View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization
By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman
Homophily in social relations is widely documented. We know that homophily results from both individual preferences and uneven opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in formal organizations is not well understood. We argue that...
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Interactive Communication;
Analytics and Data Science;
Organizational Structure;
Partners and Partnerships;
Behavior;
Internet and the Web;
Theory;
Information Technology Industry
Kleinbaum, Adam M., Toby E. Stuart, and Michael L. Tushman. "Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-050, December 2011.