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- 09 Nov 2023
- HBS Case
What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?
impervious to mental health struggles. What can be done to better support people at the top? Cohen: This is a great point. There was a paper looking at the deaths of executives and what happens. Firm profitability and other value measures... View Details
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1.5 Attendance - MBA
several reasons a student may be excused from class. Excused Absences have no impact on a grade when used in moderation. Reasons for excused absences are: Birth or adoption of a student’s child. Court summons or jury duty that cannot be postponed. View Details
- Research Summary
Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations
It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Bernardo Bertoldi, and Roberto QuagliaHarvard Business School Case 812-128 After the death of Umberto Agnelli in 2004, the Agnelli family, led by John Elkann, needs to decide whether to keep Fiat CEO Giuseppe Morchio. The Fiat Group is in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement
deaths in a world designed by and built for men. For example, women are 47% more likely to sustain severe injuries in car crashes, even when using seat belts. This is because car safety testing is done with 50th-percentile male test... View Details
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
changing elements of our social interaction in unprecedented ways that may well lead to irrevocable social changes. Already, the follow-on effects of the virus are enough to ensure there will be no normal to return to, as this incomplete list indicates: Excess... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
it. Those emotions are deep-seated from an evolutionary standpoint. “From a survival perspective, we are risk-averse,” she says. “Just as we are interested in other people thinking well of us. Long ago, rejection by the group could, in fact, lead to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Group and went on to become managing director, vice chairman of the investment banking operations committee, and chairman of the strategy committee. He later worked for Salomon Smith Barney, founded Dawntreader Ventures, and then became CEO of Wit Capital. At the time... View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
school, for example, I had been asked to research insurance coverage for a raft of lawsuits being brought against Johns-Manville Corporation for injuries and deaths from exposure to asbestos. At the time, Johns-Manville was the leading... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better
matter of how they view the technology in a vacuum, but it's how they view it in relation to themselves.” The pursuit of vehicle automation isn’t just a technological or financial quest by automakers, it’s an urgent public safety issue. Worldwide, traffic accidents are... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
they'll get happiness. In other words, get the goal, happiness comes for free. That's exactly wrong. Get the happiness and you get the success. You get enough success. Now that's scary for a lot of people, right? Because you know one of the greatest fear, the View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 09 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict
Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer
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Strategy - Faculty & Research
highway network. The company faced a major crisis when a bridge under its management collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 43 people. Under the leadership of Alessandro Benetton, the second generation of the family took control and... View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research
network. The company faced a major crisis when a bridge under its management collapsed, resulting in the deaths of 43 people. Under the leadership of Alessandro Benetton, the second generation of the family took control and steered the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
marriage license or death certificate. “It’s a sense of euphoria,” he says. As he constructed a family tree that stretched back to the early 18th century, Diamond also began to think about how the process could be improved. His own search... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
second curve will look a little different; changing how one thinks is critical to seeing and seizing it. Brooks offers a roadmap with a few suggestions: Practice a death meditation to neutralize fear of decline. Brooks says this one... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
78.6 yrs is the US life expectancy which is lower than many nations who spend far less on health care 5.9 deaths per 1000 births is the US infant mortality rate which is higher than many nations spending far less on thealth care.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
The Imposter Among Us
business being at Harvard and tossed him out, at least he would drive away in style. That never came to pass. As Dick Egan put it, “All 150 of us in PMD 22 came to understand that Robert was clearly the cleverest and most articulate member of the class.” After his... View Details
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Current Research
By: Leslie K. John
Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.
Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made
to own all types of firearms are implicitly condoning the death of innocent people through lax gun laws. Candidates who promise to do "everything possible" to enact a specific policy are neglecting the tradeoffs inherent in all... View Details