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- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
points an hour. If I sleep less than 6 and 1/2 hours, it subtracts 20 points an hour. So a bunch of little things like that that give me a relatively holistic view of how that day was from just a well-being point of view. And then, again,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
social sector. Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA 2007) Sustainable Health Enterprises — SEF 2009 honoree Sustainable Health Enterprises serves as a platform for market-based approaches for improving the well-being of communities in the developing... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
worked tirelessly to operationalize her new mutualist ideals, which comprise collective strength, independence, and shared protections. In 2008, she plans to move the organization into the health insurance industry in an effort to support a multi-generational outlook... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
about to start her next stage of medical training in the United States, which means that pursuing his aspiration now will separate them. All of these considerations raise three questions: (1) Is the timing right for Trinh to embark on his personal mission of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other sectors, such as education, where... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
we collectively use them, and that also have no natural limits on how much you can use them—things like computation, communication, biotechnology, renewable energy, and energy storage. “The environment and human well-being are way bigger... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
We asked Harvard Business School experts who study well-being to share strategies for coping with this unsettling period to prevent the coronavirus blues from taking a huge toll, both personally and professionally. “You're not going to be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
that they have a higher degree of confidence, self-awareness, skills around well-being and how to stay grounded in the midst of the academic challenges that they then encounter when they get to college. There’s been a lot of study about... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
modify aspects of their job to fit their own needs, abilities, and preferences—can increase well-being. If leaders support and help their subordinates engage in job crafting, this may improve employee well-being in these challenging... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
model that creates a better sense of belonging and well-being for underrepresented talent. Chitra: On the generational side, in terms of the similarity and difference that you found across the four generations? Jacqui: We've referenced... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
on employee and community well-being in fact perform better than those that don't? "There is some evidence to suggest the affirmative," says Thomas. "The service profit chain model, formulated by HBS professors Jim Heskett, Earl Sasser,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
decreases participants' short-term debt by about 20%. In addition, participants who experience an economic shock have less need to reduce consumption, and subjective well-being improves significantly. Precautionary savings and credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
financial performance, they overlook the greatest unmet needs in the market as well as broader influences on their long-term success. Why else would companies ignore the well-being of their customers, the depletion of natural resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
capitalism powered by private enterprise and appropriately regulated offers the best hope for continuing to improve living standards and the well-being of people across the world. Lagace: What’s an example or two of businesses that are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
forthcoming Compensation & Benefits Review The Power of Workplace Rewards: Using Self-Determination Theory to Understand Why Reward Satisfaction Matters for Workers Around the World By: Landry, Anais Thibault, and A.V. Whillans Abstract—How can workplace rewards... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Menges, and Francesca Gino Abstract—To get to work, employees need to commute. Across the globe, the average commute is 38 minutes each way per day. It is well known that longer commutes have negative effects on employees’ well-being and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
played such a critical role in my own mental strength and my own mental well-being and my ability to not just face my hardship, but ultimately grow from it. It’s that element that I think is relatable to everyone. Over the past year... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
decades of minority rule under apartheid, the government shaped a protected economy that virtually ignored the well-being of the country's black majority and left the country ill-prepared to compete in today's vigorous global marketplace.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
need to reduce consumption and subjective well-being improves significantly. Precautionary savings and credit therefore act as substitutes in providing self-insurance, and participants prefer saving more when given the choice. Take-up... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino