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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
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
hire or a firing situation. Issues may also be more personal, such as how to bridge the enormous gap between the leadership of a company and retirement. EE: What sort of...
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Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 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.
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
"Providing conservative guidance to the market may ease pressure to squeeze the last cent out of your client's pocket or to push your employees to their limits." Gerald Nanninga wrote, " . . ....
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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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- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
Favor Men Why are women discriminated against in hiring decisions? Research by Katherine Coffman, Christine Exley, and Muriel Niederle finds the answer is more subtle than expected. The Right Way to Cry in Front View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
with valuable, current business and management knowledge. If companies wanted new hires with cutting-edge insights, they'd hire an MBA. According to several deans, that's no longer true. Financial services...
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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
where the future lay. From the first, with no particular basis for the assertion, Watson endlessly repeated to his employees that "IBM is not merely an organization of men; it is an institution that...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
it is when you collaborate between scientists, government, the corporate sector, and with communities, that's where the good stuff happens. That's where the answer lies at that intersection.” Many of the guests expressed their desire to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
or "I have a new point of sale system and I want to be able to get the data out of that system and do something with it." The types of skills and capabilities that would be too...
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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
I’ve been involved in is building, essentially, a copilot for a meeting that actually helps the meeting to be more effective than it otherwise could be, playing the role again of that skilled human facilitator. And the fact is, we just...
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- 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.)
- 29 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
Don’t leave this out of your job posting…
visa sponsorship. Work authorization is issued by Harvard so hiring international students requires no more paperwork than when you hire U.S. workers. With more than 30% of the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
compelling. But there are very, very powerful forces arrayed against it—everything from the way companies structure their hiring process and the responsibilities they’re prepared to accept in terms of talent...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
employee costs. Eventually we won’t have a separate discussion about whether we should factor in ESG. There’s also a massive amount of learning that can be done among asset owners. There’s a lot View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
continue to transform. Our approach has been, rather than the wholesale hiring of new talent from outside, it made good business sense, it made good economic sense, and it was just the right thing to do to...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
effects of organizations allowing employees to “work from anywhere” and why geographic mobility has led to increased innovation. The movement of employees, Choudhury found in...
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April White
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The Changing Geography of Work: Priorities for Policy Makers
The COVID-19 pandemic thrust the issue of how and where we work into the spotlight. The adoption of remote and hybrid work increased exponentially as lockdowns necessitated social distancing. But now, as we enter a new phase of the pandemic, the Geography of Work—where...
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Remote Work;
Hybrid Work Model;
Work-from-anywhere;
Employees;
Geographic Location;
Policy
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "The Changing Geography of Work: Priorities for Policy Makers." OECD Forum Network (December 6, 2021).