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- 24 Mar 2022
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To Better Support Working Parents, Talk to Them
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TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog TALK: How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life Course Number 2227 Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions Final Project We talk to people to achieve success in every aspect of business... View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- News
Work Insights from the World’s Longest Happiness Study
The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger than Your Business Card
What Color Is Your Parachute? meets Out of Office in this inspiring, practical playbook to achieve sustainable work-life balance while optimizing your happiness, personal growth, and bank accounts.
Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
Pouring yourself into a single... View Details
- 07 Dec 2020
- News
Lifting The Stigma
few years to apply. He did, receiving his undergraduate degree in 2010 and founding the College-Bound Mentoring Program with his roommate while both were still students. Delle continued to rack up achievements before and after HBS, until a business deal he was View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 2023
- Working Paper
Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman and Benjamin Iverson
In a randomized control trial (RCT) with U.S. small businesses, we document that a large share of firms are not well-informed about bankruptcy. Many assume that bankruptcy necessarily entails the death of a business and do not know about Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where... View Details
Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman, and Benjamin Iverson. "Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30933, February 2023.
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Your Non-Binary Employees Need to Do Their Best Work
their life and career aspirations. Coffman presents her findings in a new working paper that explores the experiences, goals, and preferences of non-binary people and how these compare with those of men and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
Neeley says. “It became really important for managers to ask, ‘How’s it going? How are you doing? How can I help?’” As life begins to normalize, Neeley urges managers to retain that emphasis on employee well-being. “When people are View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
between your life and your work, it's almost inevitable that we see these blurring lines,” she says. The research team detailed their findings in the working paper Collaborating During Coronavirus: The... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- December 2010
- Article
Life in the Fast Lane: Origins of Competitive Interaction in New vs. Established Markets
By: Eric L. Chen, Riitta Katila, Rory McDonald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Prior work examines competitive moves in relatively stable markets. In contrast, we focus on less stable markets where competitive advantages are temporary and R&D moves are essential. Using evolutionary search theory and an experiential simulation with in-depth... View Details
Chen, Eric L., Riitta Katila, Rory McDonald, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. "Life in the Fast Lane: Origins of Competitive Interaction in New vs. Established Markets." Special Issue on The Age of Temporary Advantage. Strategic Management Journal 31, no. 13 (December 2010): 1527–1547.
- 15 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work
conversation. She has also outlined prescriptions for important topics that she says people should discuss but often avoid (think: job-hunting while pregnant). And when a conversation goes off the rails, she suggests ways to bring both parties back to the table to... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
The Hidden Costs of Flexible Labor Models: How Working Multiple Jobs Affects Employees
As operations increasingly rely upon flexible labor models — such as gig, part-time, and remote work — it has become commonplace for individuals to work multiple jobs. Across three studies, relying on a combination of... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- News
Working Parents, Let Go of the Idea of Balance
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
I just smile the same smile. The circle of life does not confront you when you get your first grey hair or when your eyesight weakens. It confronts you when the generations before you hand over the mantle of elder as they smile on from... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
Neeley says. “It became really important for managers to ask, ‘How’s it going? How are you doing? How can I help?’” As life begins to normalize, Neeley urges managers to retain that emphasis on employee well-being. “When people are View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 25 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Learning the Language of Business and Science – The MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Program
valuable to organizations, and can make a significant impact for patients. I am trying to develop my skills to position myself directly between science and business in my career. After getting a bachelor’s degree in bioengineering, I found a good balance View Details
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- Book
Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way you Work
By: Leslie A. Perlow
Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office—but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and... View Details
Keywords: Time Management; Internet and the Web; Groups and Teams; Performance Productivity; Globalized Firms and Management; Service Industry
Perlow, Leslie A. Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way you Work. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- 15 Nov 2022
- Book
Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work
own life as well. Our “ordinary complicity” might be continuing to work for a company we believe is destroying the environment or maybe ignoring ongoing sexual harassment perpetrated by a colleague. “Rather... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
often knew more than they did about the history and culture of the faraway lands they had visited, thanks to what I’d read and watched while growing up. Understanding the universal, equalizing, connecting power of media was a turning point, even if I didn’t initially... View Details