Well-being - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53335 September 25, 2017 JAMA Internal Medicine The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-Being By: Shanafelt, Tait D., Joel Goh, and Christine A. Sinsky Abstract—Importance:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2010
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Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975 to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

positive and negative implications of this belief. Specifically, at any given time, students who believed that their peers were more socially connected than they themselves were reported lower well-being and belonging. Over time, however,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2020
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Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

research on the ways in which work and workplace quality influence people’s well-being around the world. It also highlights a number of best practices that may inspire policy-makers and business leaders in putting View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2012
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worked tirelessly to operationalize her new mutualist ideals, which comprise collective strength, independence, and shared protections. In 2008, she plans to move the organization into the health insurance industry in an effort to support a multi-generational outlook... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

principles include ensuring thickness, alleviating congestion stemming from overuse, addressing asymmetric information, ensuring that it is safe and straightforward for users to participate, and designing monetization strategies that do not disrupt, but instead... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

iPhoto COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the emotional, psychological, and social well-being (as well as the physical health) of people around the world. Risk factors for addiction, mental illness, and “deaths of despair” are... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Menges, and Francesca Gino Abstract—To get to work, employees need to commute. Across the globe, the average commute is 38 minutes each way per day. It is well known that longer commutes have negative effects on employees’ well-being and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

need to reduce consumption and subjective well-being improves significantly. Precautionary savings and credit therefore act as substitutes in providing self-insurance, and participants prefer saving more when given the choice. Take-up... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

but in the Partnering Motivation Spectrum, the focus is simply on the partners' motivations rather than the ultimate outcomes. Altruistic motives are centered, for example, on helping individuals in need, solving community problems, or making other general... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

22 Feb 2011
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Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

You Make It Published: September 20, 2010 Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one's body in "high-power" poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

July 2024
Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

Nestle is the largest milk firm in the world. For over a century, it has developed a milk model procurement program that improved the well-being of the small-scale farmer and the ultimate consumer. Can it partner with other firms and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

that's really where the problem lies. Q: We've seen this phenomenon recently where wages are stagnating or declining What are the retail implications of a shrinking or bifurcating middle class? Alvarez: Traditionally the US economy has prospered on the economic View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

before the system was introduced. Our findings shed light on those conditions in which information sharing systems affect employees’ creative work. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53887 2018 Handbook of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2023
Supplement

Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal

In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details

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21 May 2020
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Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

We asked Harvard Business School experts who study well-being to share strategies for coping with this unsettling period to prevent the coronavirus blues from taking a huge toll, both personally and professionally. “You're not going to be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who experience an economic shock have less need to reduce consumption, and subjective well-being improves significantly. Precautionary savings and credit... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

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Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

January 26, 2016

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Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

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Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

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Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

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