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- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51040 forthcoming American Journal of Health Promotion The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial By:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
entrepreneurs. Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior Psychological nudges can be a cost-effective way for governments to get citizens to do the right thing. 5 Weight Loss Tips From...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
apps allow, the team discovered a way to guide people through behavior changes with results that stick. Individuals using Gain Life’s weight loss apps achieve results that double the one-year benchmark for...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
which people can be encouraged toward healthier behaviors through the framing of choices. One approach that has proven effective in weight loss and smoking cessation has been leveraging “loss aversion,” even...
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- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
around the weight assigned to ethical concerns, especially when they are judged against financial considerations. What has been the highlight of your HBS experience thus far? The students and alumni I have met so far are catalysts for...
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- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
further growth, and essentially the loss of control of the company by the board, which was even required to remake its composition. At Volkswagen, eerily similar things happened, this time with engineering practices and goals. This sad...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
art-auction company executive; the former CEO of a Spanish-language television company; a retired rear admiral who had headed the Girl Scouts and served on the board of Weight Watchers International; a theatrical producer; and, until two...
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- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
commented that this mindset "leads to poor morale and burn out," as well as a loss of effective communication skills. Gerald Nanninga added that "it is destroying the art of pondering" and "by valuing work as a...
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- 28 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
go to an indoor cycling class with her. I didn’t understand. The bikes didn’t move – why would I do this? Nevertheless, I went to a class at Flywheel Sports and left feeling better, physically and mentally. While I grew up playing sports, I was not the person in the...
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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that participants who wore a heavy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Review, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the book: http://hbr.org/product/guide-to-managing-up-and-across/an/11126-PDF-ENG Empirical Observations on Incentives for Weight Loss...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
afterthought. "If you look at the allocation of resources in corporate wellness programs, you will find it heavily weighted towards physical health," says Quelch. Only rarely does a tragedy, such as a suicide of a top management executive...
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- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and investor patience. "Once a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
held by the mutual fund clients of the analyst's brokerage firm. The optimism in analyst recommendations increases with the weight of the stock in a mutual fund client's portfolio and the commission revenue generated from the mutual fund...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black communities – and the false narrative that being...
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- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
management of chronic conditions. Here, many employers in the United States and Europe have made impressive starts. Some companies cover the costs of smoking cessation and weight loss programs, or reward...
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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that individuals only care about income and leisure) that can be used to...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
will be accompanied by lower incentive weights based on aggregate performance when career incentives mitigate distortions caused by aggregation. Further, if performance measures become noisier due to transient shocks, we find that...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
rising sea levels. Physical risks reflect “the potential for losses as climate-related changes disrupt business operations, destroy capital and interrupt economic activity,” according to Kevin Stiroh, executive vice president of the...
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