Stress - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

Jon Staff (MBA ’16) is the CEO and Founder of Getaway, a company that designs tiny houses, places them on beautiful rural land and rents them out by the night to stressed out city-dwellers, starting at $99/night. He was the co-president... View Details

10 Aug 2016
Blog Post

3 Benefits of the Case Method

at the end of the term. I was undoubtedly consumed throughout the academic year, but this steady pace of learning induced less stress over final exams, felt more gratifying, and ultimately bestowed more permanence to what I learned.... View Details

18 Feb 2020
Blog Post

A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020

to HBS. Although Seiko’s visa application was submitted several months earlier, we couldn’t say when we would see each other next. We did our best to stay close, but we could feel the stress of school, work, moving, and a 14-hour time... View Details

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

the dollar losses were related to physician turnover and reduced clinical hours. The research adds to previous work showing how physician stress generates negative clinical and organizational outcomes. No studies have previously been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

15 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

by Cynthia Montgomery and Ashley Whillans show how mistreating workers can have deadly consequences. 6. Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner A study of General Electric employees by Tom Nicholas shows how the stress of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

2024
Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

Employees often feel stressed when their firms are bought by other companies, fearing they could face layoffs, demotions, or lousy working conditions. While it’s true that organizations tend to restructure their workforce following... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

climate change, which can be both overwhelming but also incredibly exciting. Many Climate Rising guests stressed the importance of finding a career you enjoy, and seeking roles that align with both your passions and your strengths. Erin... View Details

29 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

improves productivity. So it’s a virtuous cycle.” Shortly after the WHO study was released, the BBC World News tapped Nava Ashraf to discuss the link between mental health and economic productivity. In the following video, Ashraf stresses... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jan 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte

at HBS. You have 2-4 years to think about it during your deferral; it is low risk. Also, this is the best time to take your GMAT/GRE. Most people I knew applied to business school while working, which led to a lot more stress than I went... View Details

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

insisted the purchase “didn’t affect the outcome of the case.”) Cohen stresses that there is nothing illegal about spending money on advertising—or bulls or skating rinks, for that matter. “Firms are free to advertise how they want and in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

or stress related to debt or how you would pay for HBS? If yes, how did you manage those feelings? There was huge anxiety around cost initially. But when you go through recruiting in your first year, you start to understand the job market... View Details

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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

14 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2022

(MBA 2023) Becky and Adriann's Love Story: The First Time We Met Adriann’s story: I was a stressed consultant, constantly traveling with a rocky foundation and never-ending work schedule. I used the weekends to try for some semblance of a... View Details

Portrait Project

Cali Tran

later, I was born in a refugee camp in California. As a Vietnamese-American, I grew up in relative luxury. There was no fear of tanks or bullets, no concern of transient uncertainty. I am the only American-born member in my family of eight, and my daily View Details

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Kristin W. Mugford | About

previously served as Faculty Chair for field-based learning and co-curricular programs in the MBA program. For the last decade she taught "Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring," a popular advanced finance elective that analyzes how economic View Details

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

just as painful as stress from overwork, Brodsky says. “There is an optimal level of psychological arousal—we don’t want to be overstimulated, but we don’t want to be under-stimulated.” Adds Amabile, “Some idle time can be welcome to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

worked as a summer intern at Bain, a position he applied for simply because it paid the most; he used the entire sum to help cover his younger brother’s tuition fees that fall semester at Cornell. Despite the stressful circumstances,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

experience working on supply chain challenges in China, doesn’t dispute China’s interest in regaining “their historical hegemony over SE Asia.” However, he stressed the need to recognize “we are in a hyper-connected, radically contingent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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