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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
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Initiative evaluate the regulatory reforms since the financial crisis. The authors highlight several areas in which the reform agenda has made clear progress. These include heightened capital and liquidity requirements, more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?
Katherine Lawrence added, “Chinese thought stresses harmony and manners and the greater good of the group. As managers, it is in our interest that this be the case.” There is a complex and extended set of relationships that determine the... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 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 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
screening test for lung cancer. Getaway 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... View Details
- 31 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not
behavior: (1) monitoring the work effectively (giving timely feedback and reacting to problems in the work with understanding and help); (2) providing socioemotional support (showing support for a team member's actions or decisions; helping alleviate View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why White-Collar Crime Spiked in America After 9/11
by significant increases in wire fraud, opportunistic insider trading, and fraud within financial institutions,” Nguyen writes in her study. With enforcement comes deterrence Nguyen stresses that there is no evidence that Muslim... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
understand why their lives had changed. “The power of a nine-year-old saying, ‘Can we all breathe together?’ was overwhelming.” A grant from Heal Ukraine Trauma funded Teaching Recovery Techniques, an evidence-based program designed to help children cope with traumatic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
capital. Such conditions stress a financial system, leaving it vulnerable to a shock. The decade before the Panic of 1907 was a stressful whopper of growth. Second, it takes quite a shock to trigger a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
Source: iStock If you’re stressed out because it feels like there are never enough hours in the day, here’s a solution: hire a housecleaner, order takeout, and pay the kid next door to mow the lawn. In other words, buy yourself more free... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
"Rather than discussing topics in the rarified air of investment banking, an industry foreign to many of our students, we wanted to be as universal as possible." Not that it is a simple situation emotionally. Stressed out over... View Details
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
part about transitioning from the military to a full-time MBA program? There is some loss of identity in leaving the military and not much time to process that change in an intensely busy environment like HBS. Anyone leaving the military will be able to handle the... 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
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
making a selection. Virtually everyone gains from the lower costs, but those gains are not experienced equally. The answer is subtle, and not simple or intuitive. The internet comparatively benefited areas that were already doing well. It is important to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
iterative manner. To learn more, read 7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19 Euvin Naidoo, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Tip: Protect the core business and pivot to new opportunities The COVID-19 outbreak has created a period of high View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
biggest concern. They mentioned the large government deficits in the U.S. and Europe, and massive unfunded pension liabili ties, as well as high private-sector leverage. Many stressed the role of the low interest rate environment and the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
of communication can support those goals." The authors note that establishing a culture of conversation won't always mean hitting each of the four "I's," but stress that these elements "tend to reinforce each other" to create a highly... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
need for eBay to maintain expensive centralized monitoring and feedback systems. The company can charge commissions that are no higher than 7 percent of a given transaction—well below the typical 30 percent to 70 percent margins most retailers would charge. It is... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 10 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Using an MBA for a Career Change
school and I have ended up in a place and position where I am excited to walk into work every day. It was definitely worth all of the stress and uncertainty over the past few years. Career change is hard. It’s a never-ending process. ... View Details