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- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
successfully against an enemy,” Simons says. “I do think in successful businesses there is both a sense of strategy and how you allocate resources to get the maximum impact, and a very healthy respect for competition to boost your game.” Walt Disney: Take time to... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
of health care spending, we should launch a decade-long national "Healthy Living" campaign focusing on nutrition, diet, physical fitness, and stress reduction. We cannot continue to ignore the obesity epidemic sweeping the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
world in a way that fits the new realities of the global economy, fosters leadership, and uses citizen-diplomats to befriend moderates in troubled regions and business networks to ensure success in the major emerging economies; and (6) building community by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
institutions. Risk-adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and stress testing to evaluate the potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13607... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
asserts, "is the ultimate weapon to help leaders meet the challenges of the 21st century." Leaders at companies that particularly stress innovative new products and services, she adds, give virtual kaleidoscopes to everyone else in their... View Details
Keywords: by 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 anxiety and lower View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to have a nest egg. They hoped I... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
ER costs have dropped significantly. The Power Of Checklists Gawande also stressed the importance of implementing checklists in health care. (Gawande is the author of The Checklist Manifesto. Knowing that the manufacturing industry was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
the leader shares how they actually felt or the range of emotions they were experiencing . Be who you are, lead how you prefer to be led." The importance of self-awareness in the use of "masks" was stressed repeatedly. As... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
work out," Clarizio said. "Kids get sick; you can't control everything." One thing she learned was not to make her life more stressful than it needed to be. "Travel less and be flexible about working at home," she... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
strong—and mainly Chinese-dominated—business class. In this context, FDI as well as public sector firms proved very valuable in a political sense. Huang stresses that he does not question the political rationale behind those policies that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
global south to explain how clusters work as major tools for international business. Particularly in the developing world, multinationals have used clusters as platforms for channeling foreign investment, knowledge, and imported inputs. The study concludes by View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Build a Better Board
should pause and ask, "Are we working the way we want to work, have conditions changed, should we do something different because we have a new CEO or because the new CEO is a more experienced person in whom we have more confidence?" It is important to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
samples taken before and after the posing measured testosterone and cortisol levels." Medical studies suggest that a high level of cortisol, known as "the stress hormone," leads to an excess of abdominal fat. That means lowering cortisol... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mindful Leadership: When East Meets West
to one's reactions to stressful situations. Leaders who are mindful tend to be more effective in understanding and relating to others, and motivating them toward shared goals. Hence, they become more effective in leadership roles. Q: How... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
Within Pfizer, Ms. Luff and the working group were able to present the program to senior management, and to build a "business case" Ms. Luff stressed that they needed to demonstrate that it was a sound, workable program that... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
activation inspired improvements in people’s emotions, resistance to disease, resilience to stress and burnout, creative problem solving, performance under pressure, and relationships with their employer. Results also revealed that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
most entrepreneurs and leaders dealing with the stress of scaling their companies and balancing life’s demands. Therapists are medical professionals with extensive training who focus on an individual’s psychological, emotional, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
modernism in the Western context. Academic and critical discourse around that time began to stress that 20th-century Indian art was an example of Indian modernism, a unique aesthetic tradition that expressed the modern Indian identity by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne