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- June 2018
- Teaching Note
Sandra Brown Goes Digital
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
As a middle manager at a biotechnology company, Sandra Brown harnessed digital tools and social media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This Teaching Note presents strategies for teaching the Sandra Brown case series, which follows Brown's...
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- 13 Aug 2019
- News
How hobbies can improve your happiness and productivity at work
- November 2020
- Teaching Note
Unilever's Response to the Future of Work
By: William R. Kerr and Bailey McAfee
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 820-104.
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- October 2020
- Article
Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance
By: Diwas S. KC, Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki and Francesca Gino
How individuals manage, organize, and complete their tasks is central to operations management. Recent research in operations focuses on how under conditions of increasing workload individuals can decrease their service time, up to a point, in order to complete work...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Knowledge Work;
Discretion;
Workload;
Employees;
Health Care and Treatment;
Decision Making;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Productivity
KC, Diwas S., Bradley R. Staats, Maryam Kouchaki, and Francesca Gino. "Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completing Easy Tasks Hurts Long-Term Performance." Management Science 66, no. 10 (October 2020).
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
ideal solution, according to a new working paper, might be a compromise: Hybrid schedules in which employees roughly split their workweeks between the home and office appear to work best. These schedules...
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by Ben Rand
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Morningstar CEO Kunal Kapoor: How AI can raise the investment IQ AI's potential is tempered by the need for reliability and consistency in financial intelligence. How is Morningstar adopting the technology,...
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- December 2012
- Course Overview Note
Making a Success of your EC Independent Project: Good Practices for Students
By: Ian W. Mackenzie
Independent project (IP) work in the EC poses challenges over and above those encountered in the project components of RC FIELD. Based on the belief that the success of IPs can be greatly influenced by how well students select and scope their projects and then go about...
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Building the On-Demand Workforce - Managing the Future of Work
PLAY IN THE "ON-DEMAND" WORKFORCE? Joseph Fuller Podcast Factoring high-skills freelancers into the enterprise equation Joseph Fuller & Allison Bailey 24 FEB 2021 | Managing the Future of Work Digital platforms for highly skilled...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Lisa Cook on why inclusion benefits the economy and economics Economist Lisa Cook discusses her pioneering work on the cost of exclusion—the economic consequences of innovation...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Josh Bersin on why CHROs are at the center of the action HR is reinventing itself on the fly and under increasing pressure. HR expert Josh Bersin explains how the field is adapting to play a more varied and...
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- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
ideas and solutions. We have three core goals: catalyze and refine faculty research ideas, educate MBAs on the value of natural resources and the opportunities for innovation and investment, and inform and engage alumni to leverage...
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- 2018
- Book
Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life
By: F. Gino
The world’s best chef.
An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing.
A magician known for his sensational escape acts.
A computer scientist who founded a world-renowned animation studio.
What do all of these... View Details
An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing.
A magician known for his sensational escape acts.
A computer scientist who founded a world-renowned animation studio.
What do all of these... View Details
Gino, F. Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life. New York: Dey Street Books, 2018.
- May 27, 2022
- Article
How 'Digital Nomad' Visas Can Boost Local Economies
More and more companies are offering their employees the option to “work from anywhere,” whether in their home office, in another state, or even halfway around the globe. A growing group of remote professionals are taking the “anywhere” in work-from-anywhere to new...
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Keywords:
Remote Work;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Collaboration;
Work-Life Balance;
Human Resources;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "How 'Digital Nomad' Visas Can Boost Local Economies." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 27, 2022).
- 12 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work
- August 14, 2019
- Article
Is It Time to Let Employees Work From Anywhere?
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Barbara Z. Larson and Cirrus Foroughi
Keywords:
Managing People
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Barbara Z. Larson, and Cirrus Foroughi. "Is It Time to Let Employees Work From Anywhere?" Harvard Business Review (website) (August 14, 2019).
- July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
MobSquad
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma
Irfhan Rawji (MBA 2004) launched MobSquad in October 2018 to help American tech start-ups retain hard-to-find talent, many of whom struggled with U.S. work visa issues, such as software engineers with experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data...
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Keywords:
Work Visas;
H1-B;
Business Ventures;
Business Startups;
Labor;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Crisis Management;
Employment Industry;
Canada;
United States
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, William R. Kerr, and Susie L. Ma. "MobSquad." Harvard Business School Case 821-010, July 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
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curriculum; understand responses to recent events and the lessons learned; and develop opportunities to educate and engage the community. Islamophobia and Anti-Arabism Working Group, co-chaired by Hakeem...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- Podcast
Larry Summers: Urban-rural inequality and the importance of work
Examining the realities of rural America, Larry Summers concludes that the problem is not just one of providing people with incomes—it’s about the very basic human connection between work and satisfaction. Speaking with Bill, Summers advocates “employer subsidies” to...
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