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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52998 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Buying Time Promotes Happiness By: Whillans, Ashley V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, Rene... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2025
- Case
The Micro-Family Office: Aamir Rehman
By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan
With a successful career and strong academic credentials, Aamir Rehman sought to design a life grounded in autonomy. For him, this meant serving on boards, continuing his professorship, and ensuring a secure and comfortable life for his family. While he didn’t possess... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Organization Design; Family And Friends; Family; Balance; Stability; Trends And Opportunities; Wealth Management; Family Business; Investment; Financial Strategy; Personal Finance; Investment Portfolio; Private Equity; Organizational Design; Family and Family Relationships; Happiness; Satisfaction; Balance and Stability; Human Capital; Compensation and Benefits; Economy; Trends; Business Model; New Jersey; United States
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
says Rivkin, "but they don't result in positive, lasting improvements to the system." Superintendents are happy with this sort of interaction, the survey showed, and 80 percent would welcome more collaboration, with a majority... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
services and charging separately. Rather than recoiling, hospitals were more than happy to pay for services if it meant they would actually receive them without haggling. According to Narayanan, the ABP solution worked because hospitals... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer
I need to get on with my presentation, getting checked out and so forth. But, I'm a little happy too, because now I have something to talk about. And so I'm holding this little story in my back pocket waiting for the appropriate time in... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
40 years. "These are people entering their retirement years very engaged,"Emerson says. "They are not going to be happy just writing a check andgoing to the annual dinner." Finally, says Grossman, there's... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Lessons from Chinese Companies’ Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
Depression, a time when markets were functioning poorly. We were happy to see an approach like this included in the administration's white paper. Q: What are the drawbacks of your proposal? A: One concern is that if we are going to rely... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
alike: (1) securing the future through innovation strategies suitable for an emerging "white coat economy" that is discovery-based; (2) pursuing happiness by addressing the connection between work and family life and reinventing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge The health care system in the US is larger and far more complex,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
activities that are increasingly going on, it's important to be able to cater to investors' appetite for information. Investors are no longer happy being fed with only the information that managers decide to give them. There are high... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
is? Three days before, someone from the So-Cal Times-Perez, Barton now realized, or one of her flunkies-had called his East Coast office at Erlington Financial Group for a quote he'd been only too happy to provide. Anticipating a hopeful... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
practices. "From a business school point of view, there's a contradiction where the art market seems illogical or strange because it turns on its head some of the rules of competition," Khaire said. "In many cases, investors are View Details
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
At the gambling meccas that employ them, they are called "casino hosts"—essentially front-line employees with nevertheless big responsibilities. These staffers work to develop one-on-one relationships with high-rollers to make sure they are very View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business and Life (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009) Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (New Haven: Yale University Press,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
How should men and women strike a balance between work and personal life in order to feel as happy and fulfilled as possible? In a packed auditorium, three speakers at the Möbius Leadership forum session titled "Walking the Tight... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
a Harvard Business Review classic, and has just been reissued in book form. We asked Sahlman what he would change if he wrote the article, now a decade old, today. 6. Spending on Happiness Money can't buy you love but it can buy... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
Research Centers. For instance, (HBS professor) Tarun Khanna is working with the Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong and the Global Research Group in Boston on a case about a large financial services group. For the interviews at the group's head office in Europe,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Publications August 2013 Social Psychological & Personality Science Matchmaking Promotes Happiness By: Anik, Lalin, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies document and explore the psychology underlying people's proclivity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
because of national security, and Apple can easily open up the storage closet (or in this case, the cloud service) and give it to them, they’re happy to do so. But the FBI is asking them to write a specific code to unlock their... View Details