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- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
about how they managed work-family balance. Men had families, too, but we didn't seem to ask those questions about men." An Emotional Experience Discussing the case in his office recently, surrounded by precarious stacks of...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
terrifying and morale-destroying experience. In addition to maintaining physical health, diet has a strong effect on intellectual and emotional functioning (as anyone who has seen a toddler melt down from too much sugar understands). The...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
surgery for a genetic condition. “I was lying in the MRI thinking, ‘I hope they find just the shadow of something suspicious and bad because then the decision won’t be up to me,’” she says. “Afterward, I was like, ‘That’s the craziest, stupidest View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
touched controversial issues including gender equality and the conflicting emotions experienced both by women who work and those who stay home to raise families. Other popular stories, listed below, looked at such diverse topics as the...
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- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Laid Off Sandra J. Sucher and Phillip AndrewsHarvard Business School Case 612-008 This case describes the experience of Anne Riley, a 28-year-old private equity analyst, who was laid off in 2008. The case explores the emotions she felt...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
bridge the gap that a lot of young people experience between a very exciting digital reality and the dead world of the textbook." On an emotional level, the death of the paper textbook will carry less societal angst than trade books,...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
lost all five fingers on his left hand while trying to protect his men from a defective distraction grenade that exploded prematurely. Jefferson was hospitalized for months and then well for the first time in years, he didn’t know what would come next. “It was an View Details
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Robert S. Benchley
- 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008
Psychology. Vol. 40, edited by Mark P. Zanna, 61-149, 2008 Abstract The stereotype content model (SCM) defines two fundamental dimensions of social perception, warmth and competence, predicted respectively by perceived competition and status. Combinations of warmth and...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
address topics like emotional coping skills, the food supply, and even one on Gospel music. “We want to lift each other up.” Virtual Alumni Forums Offer Deeper Connection in Unsettling Times For the more than 500 alumni participating in...
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Margie Kelley
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
research. "One family's story isn't an economics paper," he says. "People do get nervous if you have a personal story associated with your research. They worry you're bringing an emotional perspective to what should be a...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
experience gave me more of an emotional connection. I told my wife that I couldn't remember anything that bothered or interested me as much. But I had no skills as a gender scholar. She said, "Well, maybe you should take a look at this...
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- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
should get paid?" or say, "I'm having a rough struggle with this and that." There is not the same kind of emotional bond across gender. It's obviously difficult to have tight emotional bonds...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
became the marker," Deighton says. These days, marketing mavens realize that social media is best at building emotional bridges with consumers, done by inviting them to be part of the process. And so they are hard at work inventing...
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- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
social and emotional needs of students. And we have guidance from the CDC, of course. The ultimate framework we’re working to create will empower districts to make the right decisions for what’s going on in their community, given...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
graze. “I immediately told the real estate agent that this was my dream house,” she says shaking her head, still surprised by how she let emotion cloud her usually savvy negotiation skills. Reade didn’t plan to be a farmer, but for tax...
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- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
what job offers we get, or even when we get news about our applications. Staying physically healthy while I was having a minor emotional meltdown helped feed that need for control. Going for a run or a yoga class also forced me to take a...
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- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
mainstream press, led to the 2011 book The Progress Principle—a guide for managers who want to provide catalysts for progress among their employees. But the research also revealed a more meta result: Amabile realized the extent to which people volunteer their inner...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
of assessing ability and reliability," says Chua. "Affective trust is trust that comes from the 'heart.' This type of trust involves considerable emotional investments." To test the relationship between those two types of...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of thoughts that are almost universally shared among human beings....
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
regulators or change the probability that the employee whistleblower will first report the issue internally. What risks do whistleblowers face? Dey: There are social and emotional consequences, and there are also career consequences. A...
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