Aurora Turek is a PhD student in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on understanding how to make work more flexible and break the increasingly common norm of overwork. Through her research, she aims to develop interventions that enable more flexible work and give workers more balance between their work and personal lives. Additionally, her work explores the factors that affect women’s advancement into higher-level professional positions.
Prior to attending Harvard, Aurora worked as a Research Coordinator in the Management Division at Columbia Business School. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan.
Prior to attending Harvard, Aurora worked as a Research Coordinator in the Management Division at Columbia Business School. She earned a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Michigan.
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- Whillans, Ashley V., Jaewon Yoon, Aurora Turek, and Grant E. Donnelly. "Extension Request Avoidance Predicts Greater Time Stress Among Women." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 45 (November 9, 2021). (This article was featured as a “Research Highlight” in Nature in November, 2021.) View Details
- Whillans, Ashley V., Leslie Perlow, and Aurora Turek. "Experimenting During the Shift to Virtual Team Work: Learnings from How Teams Adapted Their Activities During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Information and Organization 31, no. 1 (March 2021). View Details
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