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  • 27 Jan 2014
  • News

Why I Hired an Executive with Mental Illness

Keywords: mental illness; employee management; competititve advantage; workplace diversity
  • 06 Jan 2017
  • News

Mental Illness and the Workplace

meetings and release my agenda and be more quiet, to make sure that I don't have another period of psychosis. So as I always say, psychosis still comes and it's just a matter of managing it and dealing with it when it does. Hanna: Tell me a little bit how you revealed... View Details
  • Video

Mental Illness and the Workplace – Katherine Switz

  • July 20, 2023
  • Article

How to Build a Life: Being Anxious or Sad Does Not Make You Mentally Ill

By: Arthur C. Brooks
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  • November 2014 (Revised March 2016)
  • Background Note

Mental Health and the American Workplace

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Mental illness has been described as an epidemic affecting nearly a quarter of all Americans in their lifetimes, often during their most productive working years. Managers who can design organizations that maximize mental health can minimize these risks and boost... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Productivity; Competitiveness; Stress Management; Depression; Absenteeism; Presenteeism; Work Culture; Business or Company Management; Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity; Organizational Culture; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • Web

Mental Health - MBA

Student & Academic Support (SAS) Mental Health Joe Coleman MBA 2018 "Mental illness is not a death sentence, but rather a surmountable obstacle on life's roller coaster." Katie Rydz MBA 2019 "I will not let... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we spoke with several Harvard Business School alumni committed to reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction on individuals and communities. Here... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 06 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

members to use it." To remove the stigma, employers need to educate workers about mental illness and distinguish it from normal levels of stress. At the same time, managers must learn the legal restrictions... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

Cohen’s recent case studies spotlights Zak Pym Williams, the son of the late comedian Robin Williams, who is spreading awareness about mental illness after struggles following his dad’s suicide. Another case... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
  • June 2021
  • Case

HelloSelf: Launch

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In April 2021, Charles Wells, founder and CEO of HelloSelf was reflecting on the company’s progress since it launched two years earlier. HelloSelf’s goal was to help the mentally ill recover and those who were mentally fit to stay well and feel even better. To do this,... View Details
Keywords: Mental Health; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Great Britain
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  • March 2023
  • Case

Between Two Minds: The Staglin Family

By: Lauren Cohen, Ronnie Stangler and Grace Headinger
Garen Staglin, Founder and Chairman of One Mind, reflected on his life’s work in brain health. As he contemplated stepping down in the next few years, he weighed how to pass along this legacy to his son, Brandon Staglin, the impetus behind and next generation of the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Well-being; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry
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  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Gerald Chertavian and Brittany Logan
In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.

EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details
Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Nonprofit Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Issues; Race
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  • 18 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

1.5 Attendance - MBA

isolation by a federal, state or local health authority or by University or HBS policy. Symptomatic illness. Physical or mental health emergencies. Appointments with health care providers that could not be scheduled at another time.... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The War Within

Great Famine, it is believed to have led to the deaths of nearly 4 million Ukrainians. “There were people who were carrying profound mental illness burdens from 50 years before,” Ames says. “Through the... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar
  • Web

1.4.5 Required Summer Work Experience & Internship Courses - MBA

Academic Training (J-1 students)). The position must be confirmed in 12twenty . It may not be feasible for every student to complete a summer work experience. Situations in which students will be permitted to waive this requirement include the following: Medical... View Details
  • Web

Skydeck - Alumni

decades-long conflict between loggers, environmentalists, government officials, and First Nations Mental Illness and the Workplace Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) on how her own experience with bipolar disorder... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Joe Coleman

to believe in myself. Life will throw me all sorts of challenges. But I will not be paralyzed by fear, because I will lean on those I trust for support. In return, I commit myself to show others that mental View Details
  • 25 Apr 2024
  • News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details