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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
workday started at 9:00 a.m., everyone was already in the office when he arrived at 8:30 a.m. As for weekends, almost everyone also showed up to work on Saturdays. Almost nine months after starting the job and things hadn’t worked out as...
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- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive View Details
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Influence: Medium 101910s19 Ford doubles factory wages and shortens workday Labor Secretary position created Worker shortage: Unions double membership and increase wages Influence: Medium-Low 201920s19 Union membership declines sharply...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
We Have Liftoff
phone, see your bill, and pay in seconds with SplitNGo. No app required. When your workday ends: When it finally gets slow at our pilot restaurant, and we get to head home after busing tables and talking to customers all night. Your...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Distinct Yet of a Piece
Their office locations range from the summit of a skyscraper in Boston to the front seat of a pickup truck in Oklahoma. Their workdays may be dedicated to helping build companies or to helping save lives. They can be found discussing...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990)
or ‘I am OK with this,’ which means I disagree completely. Even Americans don’t get this in the Brits.” Workday habit: Every two hours or so, a minibreak of three or four minutes to read a news article or make a personal phone call. “It’s...
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- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
might help phone-addled employees better control their workdays and lives. 6. HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United Published: November 7, 2012 For almost three decades, Sir Alex Ferguson has developed the Manchester...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of...
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- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day
As Memorial Day approaches, it’s natural for our minds to drift to summer – thoughts of firing up the grill, getting a boat in the water, or vacation travel would (at least in normal times) tantalize us through workdays that seem to grow...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
overseen by line managers. Lee, who is involved in senior-level hires and handles compensation and benefits issues, directly manages only a few individuals. Nonetheless, he says, “I spend about 20 percent of my workday on personnel...
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- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
before! We sold out of our holiday sets for the season right after Cyber Monday (which was a good problem), but we’re continuing to experiment with how to better predict demand.” What’s a typical workday like (or is there really no such...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
they become the first company in a talent-starved sector to wave the new talent flag. So they’re running around now selling new talent to clients and other partners in that ecosystem. I’ll use Workday as an example. We just put out a...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
and hips and repaired with laser surgery. Laptop computers, the Internet, and cell phones make the 24-hour workday a virtual reality. As we journey even deeper into middle age, will we decide to restructure the priorities we've placed on...
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Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
husband was a terrific source of support, uncomplaining even when her entrepreneurial responsibilities lengthened her workdays and ate up her weekends. “I couldn’t have done it without him,” she says. Or, of course, without that best pep...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
average of 3.2 hours each workday with their children, while employed fathers spend 2.3 hours each workday. Source: The Families and Work Institute's "1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce." Karla (Rose) Middlebrooks Keeping to...
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- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
place. The researchers chalked this up to gradual workday fatigue; it takes effort to notice and document violations and communicate (and sometimes defend) them to an establishment’s personnel. “The more inspections you have done earlier...
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- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive View Details
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
the quiet rule-breaking could mean developing code with management's approval for open-source external company projects. For mail carriers, the moral gray zone might mean finishing duties early yet staying "on the clock" until the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
the workday to have a similar effect. Each paper opens up new behavioral work that I hadn’t thought about previously and sets me on a different path. KC: Broadly, I think you could see some of these results and still feel dispirited about...
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