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- 11 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Employers Favor Men
Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults What do you think? Have you discriminated or been discriminated against because of gender beliefs? How would you coach a hiring officer through this trap? View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
in those buildings (senseless). The majority of participants, 66 percent, thought Naomi’s life was still meaningful if she was counting bricks in buildings, so long as she was happy doing it. However, only 36 percent of participants found... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated the pace of globalization in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2022
- Book
From Strength to Strength: Finding Meaning, Success, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our... View Details
Keywords: Aging; Meaning In Life; Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Success; Happiness; Satisfaction
Brooks, Arthur C. From Strength to Strength: Finding Meaning, Success, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life. New York, NY: Portfolio/Penguin, 2022.
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds Abstract—Background: Routine annual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need
offerings now, with the goal of attracting and retaining talent and keeping workers happy and healthy, which will boost productivity and improve the bottom line. Mental health issues impact work COVID-19 highlighted the fact that workers... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
situations where the threat to survival rolls on monotonously day after day. This is because planning automatically implies a future, and this future is frequently in doubt.” Crisis leaders must motivate people past that doubt—not by View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023
BalanceYounger workers are rejecting the idea of sticking with one employer for the long haul and are instead finding happiness by job-hopping and creating dramatically different boundaries with work. In a new book, Christina M. Wallace... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
finite lives. “The less control you feel you have over your daily experience, the less happy you feel. Money is a tool that allows you to purchase that control.” “People save for vacations, personal experiences, going out for nice meals,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
quickly in his younger years, called fluid intelligence, naturally decline toward midlife. He told a friend: “I have everything to make me happy and contented, but life has become very wearisome to me.” Yet people on the back end of life... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
justifying my choices by telling myself what a lot of us tell ourselves: that we’re working hard now so we will have more time to be happy later,” she says. “We all need to make better decisions on the margins, so we don’t wake up one day... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
study’s authors. “But, if there were 20 other venture capital funds that would have been just as happy to give $1 million to that firm, then the capital isn’t additional. This seems to be the case for the majority of the portfolio... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?
course of their lives.” You Might Also Like: Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security Related reading from the Working... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2015
- What Do You Think?
What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?
added: “I think there may be too many variables left out here The relative happiness of an employee base has bottom-line repercussions far beyond customer satisfaction.” What’s to be done? At the very least, FISSINNF suggests that greater... View Details
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
half paid a fixed salary—with choices such as: “Would you go to a happy hour with colleagues or go to your friend’s birthday party?” People who were paid primarily with performance incentives were up to two-thirds more likely to choose... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 24 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It
have to be this way? How could we make it better?" You Might Also Like: When Your Passion Works Against You More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022
collaboration. 1. Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead. Self-improvement doesn't need to be painful. Rather than set yet another gym goal, look inward, retrain your brain, and get outside, says Hirotaka Takeuchi. 2. More Proof That Money... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
don't forgive that." Ironically, a personal failure often occurs because an entrepreneur is trying too hard to avoid an enterprise failure. Trying to keep the venture capitalists happy and bankruptcy at bay, the founder or CEO will... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel