Anxiety - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Sep 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

found that beyond the hardship of displacement and loss, it was a strong lack of agency paired with the anxiety of always waiting for something to happen that characterized the refugee experience, which is why we wanted to equip people to... View Details

01 May 2017
Blog Post

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone at HBS

defend my answer (often against an incredibly smart peer who thought differently than me) gave me a lot of anxiety – so initially I felt I’d rather just not speak up at all. I often times felt like I could see all sides of an argument,... View Details

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

book excerpt Forecasters From the introduction of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's Economic Forecasters By Walter A. Friedman This is a book about a group of entrepreneurs who, like Evangeline Adams, identified a business opportunity in the View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

right thing can be. To truly transform our systems, we must sustain a resilient hope that can respond to changing circumstances, that allows our imaginations to respond where anxiety or disillusionment might traditionally creep in, and... View Details

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

feeling anxious shapes intrapsychic aspects of cognition, much less is known about how anxiety affects interpersonal aspects of cognition. Here, we examine the influence of incidental experiences of anxiety... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

subjective stress, although his responsibilities had increased as he navigated the logistics “to get back to normal, and to re-employ many people whom we had to furlough.” A second acknowledged that anxiety about his business had... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

01 Oct 1996
News

Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

direction. But for Baldwin and other Navy pilots, nothing created more anxiety than landing on the carrier at night -- a feat that amounted to a controlled crash on a deck that was, in the case of the World War IIvintage Midway, less than... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

leading their teams in a way that ensures there's equity of contribution and evaluation. There's a great deal of performance anxiety in global organizations, where people are worried about how they are being appraised, whether it is on... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

25 Jan 2022
Blog Post

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

lot of people are feeling apprehension,” says Yu, who’s now a scientist at Humu, a Palo Alto company that develops productivity tools for workplaces. “Maybe they want to go back to work but there's a lot of social anxiety because they're... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

21 Aug 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study

also extremely flattering to be studied. "To have a case written about us by Harvard," noted one executive at the conference, "is an added value to our brand." The process, of course, can also precipitate doubts, fears and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2024
News

Mother Nurture

Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

strategy if they thought others might find out. How to combat commitment anxiety All of this leads to a conundrum: If using commitment strategies is helpful in achieving goals and may even represent more dedication to the task at hand,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)

looking for additional challenges. Anxiety levels are high right now, but open lines of communication can help offer support, ease concerns, and keep a business moving. Use the communication tools at your disposal, be creative and... View Details

25 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 25

officers and government officials, we found that, compared to non-leaders, leaders had lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol and lower reports of anxiety (Study 1). In a second study, leaders holding more powerful positions... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2005
News

Marked Managers

Your personal accountability is laid on the line, and the anxiety level is likely to be quite high, as is the amount of social reinforcement for doing well. How much of imprinting can be attributed to the relationships that are formed... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

team, not of just one individual. So there are ways that you might put together a team that actually represents the whole basket of skills and experience needed while you are only a part of it. Q: Are VC's anxieties about women... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas, a stronger interest in people rather than things, prefer jobs in social or artistic areas, extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness, and neuroticism, characterized by high View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

23 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Jo Tan (MBA 2021) Draws on Experience

inspiration from experiences at HBS and the everyday interactions with my section,” said Jo. “In my first semester, I was illustrating to express the overwhelming emotions of being an RC; the anxiety that came from class participation,... View Details

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

amount of anxiety for people," says Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at Harvard Business School. "A lot of times the context of the conversation is around diversity as a problem—isolation,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

to understand that employees on the favored side of a policy shift could experience anxiety or insecurity, even though it seems counterintuitive. "They know about those who are disfavored, but seldom do they recognize that those who are... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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