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Ashley V. Whillans serves as the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School within the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. She teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students and holds a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of British Columbia.
Her research centers on the intersection of time, money, and happiness, with three primary streams:
- Time Demands: How unpaid labor (chores/childcare) impacts wellbeing and productivity, particularly for working women in developing economies
- Time Negotiations: Factors affecting employees' willingness to request resources like deadline extensions
- Hybrid Organizations: How time-use patterns predict employee wellbeing and productivity in distributed work settings
Her publication record spans top journals including Science Advances, Nature Human Behavior, and PNAS, with findings featured in Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Her book Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time & Live a Happier Life (2020) synthesizes this research for practitioners.
Award highlights include:
- 2022 SAGE Emerging Career Trajectory Award
- 2018 CAGS-ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award (top PhD thesis in Canada)
- 2019 IPA Dissertation Award Honorable Mention
Professor Whillans collaborates with major organizations including The Conference Board (as Distinguished Principal Research Fellow), technology firms, and NGOs. Her current projects involve machine learning analysis of 26,133 teams' dispersion patterns, field experiments with female entrepreneurs in Kenya, and time-value measurement in Nairobi's informal sector. She directs the 'Time Smart' research initiative examining how time-saving interventions affect business performance and wellbeing.
