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  • 25 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress)

outlined in a forthcoming paper in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, The Sharp Spikes of Poverty: Financial Scarcity Is Related to Higher Levels of Distress Intensity in Daily Life.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

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 to conduct two randomized... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Outcome or Result; Well-being; Personal Finance
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  • January – February 2011
  • Article

Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely thought to be prospering at the expense of their communities. Trust in business has fallen to new... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Trust; Human Needs; Welfare; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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  • October 2017
  • Case

Still Leading (B10): Louis Gossett Jr.— A New Role Erasing Racism

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Louis (Lou) Gossett Jr.’s exemplary life included a groundbreaking career in entertainment and a bold and audacious goal to erase racism. From the Broadway stage to television and the movie screen, Gossett earned major accolades in his field, notably becoming the first... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Advanced Leadership; Change; Transition; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 02 Apr 2024
  • What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

get excited or care?” DJ laid much of the blame on a “government (that) paid people to stay home and do nothing” during the COVID pandemic. Distressed Irene called out parents for raising children who “have never been raised to do chores... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

I learned. “There's this misconception that if you feel bad, something's wrong with you. If you feel distress and anxiety and melancholy, you're broken and you need to be fixed. Wrong.” Brooks: It's amazing teaching at a university how... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

from Pension and Insurance companies. Regulatory changes are used to provide collaborating evidence that the curvature of the yield curve is shaped through this demand channel. Related Themes: Credit Markets, Size & Growth of the Financial Sector More Info Crisis of... View Details
  • 18 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

self-views,” says Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who co-wrote the study with Maryam Kouchaki, an assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management. “Unethical behavior creates View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

makes us feel pleasure and “releases a hormone called oxytocin that helps modulate social interactions and emotion. Being kind is good for our own and our employees' mental health." And that translates to improved morale and performance. Here's what View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

stress, especially at schools that attract highly driven, highly competitive students. "We've known for a long time that chronically elevated levels of physiologic stress and psychological distress lead to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

NOV 2020 In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial and legal system will need to deal with a surge of financial distress in the business sector. In this paper, the authors try to size up the coming surge of financial distress,... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

long-term goal of expanding to encompass a comprehensive range of financial solutions. Sophy Wang: MOONWISE is a venture that aims to increase menstrual health literacy in China through digital media and online education. A lack of proper knowledge has caused physical... View Details
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Eugene F. Soltes + More Info – Less Info Participants will have a chance to engage in a discussion of the case "A Letter From Prison," followed by a presentation on the psychology of white-collar crime. CASE STUDY Board of Directors and... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

In recent years, I have been inside nearly two dozen turnaround situations, in various stages of progress, in which new leaders were bringing distressed organizations back from the brink of failure and setting them on a healthier course.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 27 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

Roughly one in 66 women has a better chance of leaving the hospital alive if their doctor is also a woman. Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer Psychological "interventions" companies can take to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

publications, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Financial Analysts Journal, and Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. His paper "Investing in Distressed Situations" received the... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

Easy Answers, it's important to regulate the level of distress or disruption that people feel. If you make them feel too much pressure, they'll be unable to perform the adaptive work you're asking them to do. Updated advice: Be only as... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei Abstract—Psychological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

executive programs have substantial negotiation components as well. The unit's research methods include everything from analyzing negotiations in progress to psychological lab studies with subjects in negotiation experiments to running... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

promising source of potential savings for other segments of the commercial insurance market. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53250 September 14, 2017 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin From... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne