stress - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

subclinical stress in young adults and accelerate neuropsychiatric clinical trials. Willow uses machine learning—with Human-in-the-loop—to train personalized AI models that can be used for continuous disease monitoring and early... View Details

02 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

his co-researchers believe that it may have lessened the effects that their research revealed, as people tend to be more assertive or unyielding when real money is on the line. While gender was a key dimension in the study sample, Zlatev View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

splitting off into more isolated and well-defined communication networks, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Tiona Zuzul. The authors of the working paper stress that this shift is not necessarily negative, noting... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

with a more stable job with more predictable schedules and income. Build out your support team You (and your partner) may be able to “outsource” the tasks that would otherwise put stressful pressures on your time. Look for opportunities... View Details

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

excessive delays, poor quality, overtime, or stressed employees. Whichever approach you prefer, it's important not to be overly sensitive to small errors. The objective is to be approximately right, say within 5 percent to 10 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

around a plan to move forward and communicate his confidence in the plan ." Terri Bonar-Stewart suggested to leaders that they, "Lay out the facts, ask for employees' help (they have been waiting for you to ask), use humor (you can't laugh and feel View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Oct 2023
News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

circle in terms of ideas, feedback, and financial support. Foley also stressed the School’s “deep commitment to fiscal responsibility.” Foley noted that philanthropy makes up 27% of the School’s revenue, and Senior Director of Development... View Details

16 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

with intention, we are more likely to come out on the other side with more clarity, less stress and with a higher likelihood of success—in whatever way each individual defines success. "Take a moment—even if it’s just an afternoon—to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

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Events - Business History

the day participants explored the continuing methodological challenges in conducting oral history, including the choice between audio and video recordings, and the language in which such interviews should be conducted. The urgent need to develop agreed standards was... View Details

01 Oct 2021
News

Fueling the Faculty Pipeline

priority that his parents, especially his father who was orphaned at a young age, stressed to their three children. Because of them, Melwani was inspired to earn a degree in economics at Cambridge University, to attend HBS, and to... View Details

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

reduce stress at work and increase job performance.” If you think your organization would benefit from experimenting with ways to recharge employees and increase their productivity, please send an email to Francesca Gino at fgino@hbs.edu... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

information (or more often, misinformation) we’re putting out there about our own trustworthiness. What’s worse, stress tends to amplify the problem. Under pressure, we often double down on behaviors that undermine trust. For example, we... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

11 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

Leahy shares. “There's so much pressure and stress that individuals feel to find the perfect internship or the perfect next job. But HBS students and alumni are incredibly talented and can find the connective tissue from one step to the... View Details

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

chicken, for example, included multiple vendors providing a handful of birds each. Food safety is a big concern for Chinese consumers, and it was Su's decision to build the supply chain from the ground to help ensure quality. "We work with our suppliers to build... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

Maybe it goes without saying that the past two years have been stressful for employees. But new research suggests managers should say it anyway. That’s because verbally acknowledging someone else’s feelings, especially negative ones, can... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Jon Staff (MBA 2016) Peter Davis Aaron Vomberg Sarah Ruehlow Business Track Runner-Up Getaway designs tiny houses, places them on beautiful rural land and rents them out by the night to stressed out city-dwellers, from $99. Social... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Happier-ness at Work

Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write.... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023 - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

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