Stress - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

with intention, we are more likely to come out on the other side with more clarity, less stress and with a higher likelihood of success—in whatever way each individual defines success. "Take a moment—even if it’s just an afternoon—to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

can't always follow the top-down model," he says. "With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send." David Thomas stresses the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

actually become their own providers with respect to many issues." Integrating new approaches into established organizations: Still, survey respondents stressed the importance of established firms and hospitals in fostering... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

reduce stress at work and increase job performance.” If you think your organization would benefit from experimenting with ways to recharge employees and increase their productivity, please send an email to Francesca Gino at fgino@hbs.edu... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

likely to under-achieve your potential." Do You Have A Succession-planning Process In Place? Kaplan stresses the importance of developing potential successors for key positions in your company-including your own-and creating a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

stress those results are only illustrative. Their main purpose in writing the paper, they say, is as proof of concept in opening up the conception of what kind of data machine learning can effectively analyze. “There are so many new forms... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

political economy. Thomas Piketty locates the roots of growing inequality in the economic returns to capital and stresses the political stakes of distributive justice. “If democracy is someday to regain control of capitalism,” he writes,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

talking about academic institutions of higher education.” Even though the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) stresses the amateur nature of intercollegiate sports, college programs have grown into a multibillion-dollar... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

cognitive-behavioral therapy, as well as mindfulness and meditation-based stress reduction. This first group logged in to complete various activities and games at least twice per week that showed them, for example, how to savor the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

doing this at the end versus the start of a meeting tends to give you a better read because no one is bringing the stress from a prior meeting into their pulse check. Meeting Engagement No one wants to listen to a monologue and no one... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

need to be genuine to work. “You want to deeply involve yourself in cross-cultural interactions" "It's not just going to a foreign movie or eating culturally different food," he says. "You want to deeply involve yourself in cross-cultural interactions." Chua View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

are evaluating an executive decision or a family matter. "Whenever you implement something, if it fails, then almost invariably it did so because there was an assumption in there that, looking back on it, clearly was not plausible," he explains. How Will You Measure... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

by shopping at neighborhood businesses. Indie bookstores won customers back from Amazon, Borders, and other big players by stressing a strong connection to local community values. Curation: Independent booksellers began to focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

01 Mar 2023
What Do You Think?

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

days of time each week. They’ve stressed the importance of time spent together for creative collaboration as well as the need for team-building and the preservation of the organization’s chemistry. On the other hand, we have responses to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

information (or more often, misinformation) we’re putting out there about our own trustworthiness. What’s worse, stress tends to amplify the problem. Under pressure, we often double down on behaviors that undermine trust. For example, we... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen

08 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

splitting off into more isolated and well-defined communication networks, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Tiona Zuzul. The authors of the working paper stress that this shift is not necessarily negative, noting... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

Maybe it goes without saying that the past two years have been stressful for employees. But new research suggests managers should say it anyway. That’s because verbally acknowledging someone else’s feelings, especially negative ones, can... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

around a plan to move forward and communicate his confidence in the plan ." Terri Bonar-Stewart suggested to leaders that they, "Lay out the facts, ask for employees' help (they have been waiting for you to ask), use humor (you can't laugh and feel View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

making a selection. Virtually everyone gains from the lower costs, but those gains are not experienced equally. The answer is subtle, and not simple or intuitive. The internet comparatively benefited areas that were already doing well. It is important to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

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