mental health - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2020
Blog Post

The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

longer, and cost more than most teams realize. 3) Mental health is critical. Listen to your employees and allow them to guide the community building efforts through this period. They are the ones who will... View Details

31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

minimal viable product (MVP) for our mental health startup idea, and to achieve that, I decided to level up my technical skills through an intensive coding program for three main reasons: 1. Entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Technology

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

increases reliance on one's own egocentric perspective when reasoning about the mental states of others. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Todd%20et%20al%202014_162adbe2-6427-4cd1-8675-46aab9eda0e7.pdf ... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

23 Feb 2018
Blog Post

How to thrive as an Introvert at HBS

resources to work on a business idea, and stay on top of my mental and physical health amidst all of the craziness. Through the process of pursuing those goals, I knew I’d connect with awesome people, so I... View Details

18 Mar 2020
Blog Post

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

from home including technology, establishing routines, health and wellness, and communication. Technology One of the major reasons so many companies can consider work from home plans right now is the available technology. “It’s not like... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

Woodstock in 1969. “Let all our actions, and all our arts, express Yoga,” he told the crowd of some 400,000 people, before leading them in a resounding “om,” a resonant sound considered sacred in yoga texts. In later decades, as the flower children faded, yoga became... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

announcement, served as a credible commitment to the government's privatization agenda. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13427 Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2003
News

A Casual Approach to Success

down-to-earth mentality is also apparent in Hellman’s athletic endeavors. He grew up riding horses and later played varsity water polo at the University of California, Berkeley. Often attributing his athletic achievements to an ability to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

because it sends a message to other managers about the importance of assuming an ownership mentality toward the business and its customers. Flash forward to the recent disclosure by the leadership of Wells Fargo that it fired 5,300 of its... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

fauna that surrounds our cities, it also impacts our own health and wellbeing as a species. Earlier in the afternoon, Adi spoke to us of his uncle “Saurabh-ji”, a critical figure in the Godrej Group company history. Having a... View Details

05 Nov 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

advantage of the virtual internship is that none of this was physically constrained. I met with 50+ entrepreneurs over the course of 12 weeks across all different geographies and verticals, including mental health, subscription services,... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to address new medical research into football's deleterious View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2020
Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Apr 2019
News

Finding Common Ground

from opioids), Shumway also cites domestic abuse and criminal records that prevent reintegration into society as primary factors that contribute to homelessness. “A disproportionate number of the homeless are also veterans with mental... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

21 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products

regarding the types of products students are passionate about. “We are seeing increased interest in innovative consumer products including tech enabled products and companies in the health and wellness space” said Lauren. Wellness could... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

areas like mental health care, dairy farmer subsidies, and the fishing industry, Cai says. “Things that maybe we're not as familiar with. Seeing the breadth of different policies and the different... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

playing soccer and basketball. Sort of the mental damage that you have to suffer from that is—and I can only speak on his behalf, not for him, from his perspective—must be huge. I know it was huge for my family, and for him it must be all... View Details

12 Oct 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent this Summer Coding