Sara Harrison

Sara Harrison is a freelance writer and journalist based in New York. Her feature article for Wired on the science of smell was included in the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020. Previously, Harrison was a reporting fellow at Wired and an assistant editor for the politics section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Sara holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Carleton College and a master’s degree from the University of California-Berkeley School of Journalism, where she was a Dean’s Merit Fellow.

Wed, 06/16/2021 - 12:03
A Little ‘Humorbragging’ Could Help You Land Your Next JobMixing confidence and humor can catch employers’ attention and set you apart from self-promoters
Tue, 10/08/2024 - 12:02
Two job seekers apply to be a sales representative. They have similar names, educations, skills, and levels of experience. But one of them adds a little extra to his resume: “I have a proven track record of turning caffeine input into productivity…
Office Confidential: Keeping Secrets at Work Can Be a Lonely JobWe’re just starting to understand its effects on the secret-keepers
Thu, 09/12/2024 - 12:03
A hush has fallen over the workplace. At tech startups and banks, in doctors’ offices and law firms, workers are increasingly being asked to keep secrets. These aren’t personal confidences but organizational secrets about clients, proprietary…
Unlocking the ‘Iron Cage’ of Corporate ConformityTwo scholars of organizations look at how the pressure to homogenize affects industries—including their own
Mon, 06/03/2024 - 12:02
As a newly hired assistant professor of organizational behavior and sociology at the Yale School of Management, Walter (Woody) Powell observed a strange phenomenon through his office window. It was 1979. Bold colors and patterns were in style, and…
We Don’t Like Domineering Bosses. So Why Do We Put Up With Them?People ‘have more power than they think they do,’ says Deborah Gruenfeld
Wed, 09/07/2022 - 12:01
Have you ever had a really bad boss? Think Alec Baldwin as Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross, who announces that “coffee’s for closers only” and then threatens the salesmen he supervises with a number of choice terms not suitable to repeat here. Few…
Want to Teach Older Workers New Skills?Ask younger colleagues to train them
Wed, 06/16/2021 - 12:03
If you’ve watched Grey’s Anatomy, then you’ve gotten a peek into the complex hierarchies that rule a hospital. Over 17 seasons, the show’s eponymous heroine, Meredith Grey, ascends from a lowly intern to chief of general surgery, learning from the…