Research
Research
- 28 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
- Working Knowledge
Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?
by Kristen Senz
| A kitchen table is not a home office. Companies competing for talent after the pandemic may need to consider remote workers' added housing costs, says Christopher Stanton.
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- 21 Apr 2021
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Architect Stefan Behnisch on designing for a changing workforce
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- 08 Apr 2021
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Social Finance: trainers make the grade when students get good jobs
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- 07 Apr 2021
- News
- Chronicle of Higher Education
The Edge: The Best Ways to Spend Some of the Billions in Biden’s Big Jobs Proposal
By: Joseph Fuller
| “A lot of social entrepreneurs get awfully quiet awfully fast when you want to talk about metrics and results,” said Joseph Fuller, a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. Their passion for their mission is powerful, he said, but often it...
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- March 2021
- Case
Chime Solutions
| Just two years after launching their 10k by 2020 initiative to hire 10,000 employees by 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced Chief Executive Officer Mark Wilson to send nearly all of his staff at Chime Solutions (Chime) to work from home. Chime was a customer contact...
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- 30 Mar 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
- Working Knowledge
Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New US Ventures
by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
| The impact of immigration has been particularly sharp in entrepreneurship, yet there is remarkably little evidence about how immigration in the workplace connects to the creation and scaling of new firms. The economic consequences of greater workplace and...
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- 24 Mar 2021
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Spotify’s talent play: distributed, flexible, and diverse
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Can AI and analytics deliver efficient, equitable skills markets?
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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
- HBS Alumni Bulletin
Addressing education inequities exacerbated by the pandemic
Re: Joseph Fuller & Debora Spar
| HBS faculty members Joseph Fuller and Debora Spar, and alumni John Alford (MBA 2001), Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), and Ashish Dhawan (MBA 1997) have identified important ways business leaders can use their insights and resources to help solve these problems. Key among...
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- 08 Mar 2021
- News
- HBS Working Knowledge
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
Re: Julia Austin, Michael Beer, Arthur Brooks, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Amy Edmondson, Joseph Fuller, Boris Groysberg, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John Macomber, Tsedal Neeley, Gary Pisano & Raffaella Sadun
| When the pandemic recedes, executives can’t expect office life to be as it was. But they can create a new work world that will keep employees happy and productive, say Harvard Business School faculty members.
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- 24 Feb 2021
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
Factoring high-skills freelancers into the enterprise equation
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- 17 Feb 2021
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
The value of knowing what you’re about: HR, diversity, and work-life balance
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- 09 Feb 2021
- News
- Fast Company
For a more equitable recovery, corporations must stop using a college degree as a proxy for ability
Re: Joseph Fuller & Manjari Raman
| A study from Harvard Business School and the nonprofit Grads of Life revealed that during the Great Recession of 2008, 75% of jobs lost were those held by workers with a high school diploma or less—yet 75% of the 11.6 million jobs created in the recovery required at...
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- 03 Feb 2021
- Podcast
- Managing the Future of Work
MIT’s David Autor on engineering more equitable growth
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Whose Job Is It Anyway? Co-Ethnic Hiring in New U.S. Ventures
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
| We explore co-ethnic hiring among new ventures using U.S. administrative data. Co-ethnic hiring is ubiquitous among immigrant groups, averaging about 22.5% and ranging from 40%. Co-ethnic hiring grows with the size of the local ethnic workforce, greater linguistic...
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- 01 Feb 2021
- News
- Wired
The Recession Exposes the US’ Failures on Worker Retraining
Re: Joseph Fuller
| Even with increased investment, community colleges and workforce groups may face challenges providing people the right skills, given the rapid pace of technological change and the opacity of what businesses are seeking, said Joseph Fuller, a Harvard Business School...
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- 31 Jan 2021
- News
- Wall Street Journal
Tips on Going Freelance During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Re: Joseph Fuller
| “Covid will accelerate companies’ use of gig workers and legitimize it more,” says Joseph Fuller, a Harvard Business School professor of management practice who co-chairs a research project called Managing the Future of Work. “It’s forced companies to blow through some...
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- 28 Jan 2021
- News
- BBC
'Degree inflation': How the four-year degree became required
Re: Manjari Raman
| It’s a widespread problem, says Manjari Raman, director of Harvard Business School’s project on Managing the Future of Work. According to a 2017 paper Raman co-authored, “the degree gap – the discrepancy between the demand for a college degree in job postings and the...
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