Ben Waber
Harvard Biz Review
Boston, MA, United States
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Toward Fairer Data-Driven Performance Management
Reliable, accurate, and bias-free measures of employees’ job performance are notoriously elusive. And while companies are awash with data about their employees, their ability to translate them into trustworthy markers of performance is at best a work in progress. Research shows that self-ratings and supervisory ratings of job performance overlap by merely 4%. While true meritocracy in… → Read More
Did WFH Hurt the Video Game Industry?
Researchers found that companies that went remote experienced more delays of marquee projects than those who stayed in the office. → Read More
The Implications of Working Without an Office
Early research on how people are — and aren’t — adapting and how leaders can help. → Read More
The Truth About Open Offices
There are reasons why they don’t produce the desired interactions. → Read More
The Truth About Open Offices
There are reasons why they don’t produce the desired interactions. → Read More
12,000 Steps to Being More Creative at Work
Research suggests that the more you move, the more creative you are → Read More
UFC Fighters Are a Lot Like CEOs: Overpaid and Underperforming
Like corporate executives, UFC fighters get big bumps in pay as they climb the ladder—and their performance often suffers afterward → Read More
Wearable Tech’s New Frontier: Charting Hospital Patients’ Progress
Accelerometers helped doctors notice a brain tumor patient regaining strength → Read More
The Myth of the Lone Genius
Even Thomas Edison and Leonardo da Vinci benefited from collaboration → Read More
Maybe March Madness Boosts (Rather Than Kills) U.S. Productivity
Watching basketball games in the office increases communication among office mates → Read More
The Sumo Wrestler Way of Retaining Top Talent
The tradition-bound Japanese Sumo Association has a far better incentive system to promote workers and reward spectacular achievers → Read More
What Data Analytics Says About Gender Inequality in the Workplace
It’s a cultural marker of sorts when a major Hollywood studio buys the film rights to a self-help book, in this case Sheryl Sandberg’s bestseller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Sony Pictures has hired a screenwriter to fictionalize Sandberg’s tale of the lessons she learned adapting to → Read More