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- 04 Jan 2013
- News
Innovative Incentives for Community Based Workers
- 15 Feb 2013
- News
Younger Workers Need a Career Narrative
- 2021
- Working Paper
Being the Boss: Gig Workers' Value of Flexible Work
By: Laura Katsnelson and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Workers who join the gig economy face a challenging trade-off. Gig work provides worktime flexibility and a sense of being one’s own boss, but gig workers forgo certain protections that employees enjoy. In this paper, we study the work patterns of a large sample of...
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Gig Workers;
Flexible Work Arrangements;
Worker Welfare;
Labor;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Katsnelson, Laura, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Being the Boss: Gig Workers' Value of Flexible Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-124, May 2021.
- 17 Aug 2018
- News
Worker Representation on Boards Won’t Work Without Trust
- December 13, 2022
- Article
6 Ways Companies Fail to Help Workers Grow
By: Joseph Fuller, Matthew Sigelman and Nik Dawson
The authors recently studied Fortune 250 companies and ranked them based on the lived experience of three million of their U.S. workers. One of their key findings was that even top-ranked firms fail to deliver consistently on worker advancement. To understand why this...
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Personal Development and Career;
Training;
Business Model;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Evaluation;
Opportunities
Fuller, Joseph, Matthew Sigelman, and Nik Dawson. "6 Ways Companies Fail to Help Workers Grow." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (December 13, 2022).
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
Bigger paychecks for retail employees could generate significant payoffs for employers by reducing worker theft and raising the level of moral behavior in the workforce, a new study shows. Tatiana Sandino, an associate professor in...
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- September 1977 (Revised December 1977)
- Supplement
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (C)
Fulmer, William E. "International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 678-042, September 1977. (Revised December 1977.)
- 14 Jan 2009
- News
The knowledge worker and Enterprise 2.0
- 10 Feb 2009
- News
Don't Blame H-1B Workers for Woes
- 27 Apr 2022
- News
Creating a Culture of Inspired Workers
- 24 Nov 2021
- News
Great Resignation? Tech Workers Try a Great Reconsideration Instead
- 26 Aug 2014
- News
Nancy Koehn On The Heroism Of West African Ebola Workers
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would flood back to employers who...
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by Rachel Layne
- 13 Jan 2023
- News
Tulsa's Big Bet on Remote Workers
- September 1977 (Revised March 1987)
- Case
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A)
Fulmer, William E. "International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 678-040, September 1977. (Revised March 1987.)
- 13 Nov 2013
- News
Challenges facing relief workers in Philippines
- 13 Apr 2020
- News
4 things workers need from their companies right now
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
When HBS professor Steven Spear recently released an abstract on problem solving at Toyota, HBS Working Knowledge staffer Sarah Jane Johnston e-mailed off some questions. Spear not only answered the questions, but also asked some of his own—and answered those as...
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- 09 Sep 2014
- News