Stress Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2023
What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

before purpose, you get an Enron. Ranjay Gulati, the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently identified this quest as a search for “deep purpose.” Gulati considers deep purpose not just another View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Apr 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava

join a sports tech startup along with that startup’s product team. I started as a Product Analyst, leveraging my skills and experience from Twitter and grew into a Product Manager role. I spent the following one and a half years learning... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Happier-ness at Work

Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

This book gives an overview to the philosophy and applied strategies of teaching in a participant-centered learning environment. Articles September 2007 Academy of Management Learning & Education Vol. 6, No. 3 (Sep., 2007), pp. 364-374.... View Details

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

helps cross-cultural creative collaboration." Testing Cultural Metacognition In the first of three studies, the researchers asked 43 middle-level managers enrolled in an executive MBA course to complete a questionnaire to rate their own... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

starters, Karen Caswelch suggested that we take steps to ensure that in our hiring, we consistently select people who share and value behaviors that produce trust as a shield against management turnover that leads to broken commitments.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

Business Administration at HBS and a member of the Forum's faculty steering committee. Other committee members include William W. Chin, Executive Dean for Research at HMS; Richard G. Hamermesh, MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Profile

Ruzwana Bashir

add an extra dimension of stress and a need for extraordinary levels of persistence. However it is pretty amazing to create something from scratch and control your own destiny, so I still think it’s absolutely worth it. What makes the... View Details

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

outcomes in organizations, such as individual stress and well-being, intergroup conflict, performance, and change. By providing a way to investigate patterns of relationships among multiple identities, the identity network approach can... View Details

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

Many of us have been there: mired in rush-hour traffic, listening to music or news to take our minds off the grind, wishing we didn’t feel so stressed before we’ve even reached the office. A late-night conversation with a fellow... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

"Cases help to develop 'pattern recognition' skills that are very important in decision-making ...." Dave Schnedler added that cases help develop "critical thinking," teach that "digging hard pays off," View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

acknowledge that they notice people's race—often the result of a horrified reaction from a parent when they do," Norton says. A Zero-sum Game? In addition to an ineffective strategy at managing interracial interactions, racial... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

exposures, since they fell below the Fed’s threshold for annual collection of Form FR Y-14A Capital Assessments and Stress Testing. At the moment, we also cannot track what fraction of SVB’s deposits was connected to the local venture... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

16 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You a Strategist?

academic research that started to take hold in the 1980s and '90s. The work brought much-needed economic thinking to strategy's underpinnings. It armed legions of MBAs and strategy consultants with frameworks and techniques to help View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

didn’t plan out a career in beauty. Instead, she tested out different hypotheses and followed her curiosity. Some early stops in her career included internships at Merrill Lynch and Putnam, consideration of joining Teach for America or law school, and then ultimately... View Details

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

Activity-based costing, ABC, would seem to be an accurate way for managers to assign costs to the customers and products that use a department's services. But real-world use has shown ABC loses power in large-scale operations, and can be... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

Author Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She's the author of Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules in Work and Life. [Image: iStockphoto/IPGGutenbergUKLtd] How do you View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

you are a technologist, but lack management or operating skills (marketing, sales, etc.), you may benefit from a more seasoned business leader as cofounder who has seen the movie before. While many operating skills can be learned,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

out what they will do after the task. Building in a process for releasing stress and reviewing task performance helps managers at any level of experience to learn, to improve, and to move on to subsequent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 28 Sep 2016
Webinars: Career

5 Happiness Hacks That Drive Productivity, Sales, and Creativity

According to Harvard Business Review, happy people are 37% more productive, have 31% higher sales, and are three times more creative than their peers. In this webinar, Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) provides models to create lasting happiness including building diverse... View Details

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