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  • May 2025
  • Article

The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments

By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Two in five Americans have medical debt, nearly half of whom owe at least $2,500. Concerned by this burden, governments and private donors have undertaken large, high-profile efforts to relieve medical debt. We partnered with RIP Medical Debt (now Undue Medical Debt)... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Outcome or Result; Well-being; Personal Finance
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  • August 13, 2024
  • Editorial

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

By: Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura and Katie Sonnefeldt
Keywords: Well-being; AI and Machine Learning; Work-Life Balance; Health Industry
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  • 2018
  • Article

Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time

By: A. V. Whillans, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people often fail to spend their money in this way. Because most people believe that the future will be less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Choice; Sharing Economy; Opportunity Cost; Time-as Money; Well-being; Time Management; Happiness; Perception; Behavior
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Can a Website Bring Unemployment Down? Experimental Evidence from France

By: Aïcha Ben Dhia, Bruno Crépon, Esther Mbih, Louise Paul-Delvaux, Bertille Picard and Vincent Pons
We evaluate the impact of an online platform giving job seekers tips to improve their search and recommendations of new occupations and locations to target, based on their personal data and labor market data. Our experiment used an encouragement design and was... View Details
Keywords: Online Platform; Digital Platform; Unemployment; Encouragement Design; Job Search; Jobs and Positions; Internet and the Web; Well-being; Outcome or Result; Digital Platforms; France
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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Alumni Books

well-being of organizations of every type and size. It should be deeply embedded in an organization’s culture, guiding principles, and behavior. Simply sticking to the rules is not enough. Drawing on his many years of experience and an... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Web

MD/MBA | MBA

students in the fall of 2005. The program’s mission is to develop outstanding physician leaders, skilled in both medicine and management, to take positions of influence through which they will contribute substantially to the health and View Details
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • News

Remembering Walter Shipley

endorsing employee well-being and diversity long before those topics became fashionable. Beginning in 1996, the Financial Times reports, he asked business units to submit plans on diversity, including the advancement of women. When... View Details
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

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 it's needed, according to Amy J.C. Cuddy. Why Unqualified Candidates... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals who agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The act of voting is then a source of vicarious utility... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Impact Accounting for Product Use: A Framework and Industry-specific Models

By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
This handbook provides the first systematic attempt to generate a framework and industry-specific models for the measurement of impacts on customers and the environment from use of products and services, in monetary terms, that can then be reflected in financial... View Details
Keywords: Impact Measurement; Product Impact; Customer Welfare; Environment; ESG; Product; Customers; Well-being; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Accounting; Financial Statements; Analysis; Framework
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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

The Right Stuff: Getting the Word from MBA Admissions

looking for in applicants? Wheelwright: The vision of the MBA Program is to develop outstanding business leaders who contribute to the well-being of society. With this overriding goal in mind, we seek individuals who maintain high... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • News

A Fearless Force for Change

sense of empowerment and spiritual well-being in the minibattles that were fought and won on the "hills" at the gym's spinning studio. Finding that personal source of support and inspiration was essential for Linn's mental and physical... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

business, government, and nonprofit organizations, through which they will contribute significantly to the well-being of society. About Nanako Yano Nanako Yano grew up in Tokyo, Japan and attended Pomona College in California. After... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Where Conservation Means Business

ensuring the physical well-being of the library’s priceless treasure of business books and records. “No other business school has a historical collection to rival HBS,” Anderson proclaims. The raw numbers she cites to back that up are... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Just Breathe

I was working nights and weekends, and that eventually led to burnout. I wasn’t sleeping. I wasn’t eating, and my self-esteem was in the gutter. My doctors told me that something had to change. That’s when I decided to take my well-being... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault

the health and well-being of the communities in which you and your employees live and work.” Chenault grounded his advice in what he called the “unspoken compact” between business and society at large. “Society allows us to operate in... View Details
Keywords: commencement; speech; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 02 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. That's the insight into the secret of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • Web

Diversity | Employment

advancing the well-being of indigenous peoples through self-determination, academic achievement, and community service. Volunteering & Community The volunteer group Harvard Neighbors helps both newcomers and more established members... View Details
  • Web

Alumni Forums - Alumni

and dollars invested in a forum directly impact the well-being of your business, your family, and yourself. Thousands of forum members in Young Presidents Organization, Entrepreneurs Organization, and Harvard Business School alumni clubs... View Details
  • Web

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

The nefarious wielding of hope to maintain normative structures can be broken down into various buckets, a few of which panelists explored, as follows: The exploitation of hope and its effects on well-being There are many ways in which... View Details