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- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
professional relationship." “Gratitude and praise are free and can be a way to turn silence into a dialogue into a professional relationship,” Ng says. If you’re working remotely, consider befriending at least one person who is working...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
was to make a series of unsustainable promises that sustained the illusion of prosperity" by extending easy credit to fuel consumption, covering health care and retirement costs, and directly employing people while lowering tax...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2006
- Book
The Soul of a Doctor
By: Susan Pories, Sachin H. Jain and Gordon Harper
Collection of essays written by Harvard Medical School students focused on the experiencing of transitioning from clinician to student. Particular emphasis is given to the role of student as an "embedded critic," i.e. a practitioner knowledgeable about medicine, but...
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- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
Julia Lee, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats Abstract—It may be possible to offer people a new understanding of their best-self concepts, leading to positive personal and social change. We developed theory about how best-self...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
Starting a new job often brings excitement and high hopes of mingling with colleagues, sharing innovative ideas, and making a positive impact on an organization. Soon, however, a new employee’s excitement may start to wane, if the person...
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- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
happened? A: One obvious reason, of course, is the difference in time zones. Turin is six hours ahead of the east coast, so if all one cared about was knowing who won and if there was no indication that some event was particularly...
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- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R) has suggested an option that is worth serious consideration in other states. His plan gives Medicaid enrollees a choice: Every recipient would obtain catastrophic and preventive coverage as well as a View Details
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by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
http://hbr.org/product/handbook-of-leadership-theory-and-practice/an/12326-HBK-ENG Big Five Personality Factors, Hardiness, and Social Judgment as Predictors of Leader Performance Authors:Scott Snook, Paul T. Bartone, Jarie Eid, Bjorn...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
have included divergent takes on such topics as: Ep 16: Is the Job of the Presidency Too Big for One Person to Lead effectively? Moon: “A corporation is designed to enable the company to be led, whereas when you look at the presidency,...
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- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
A show of hands, please. "How many of you would be fifteen minutes late for an appointment with your CEO?" Gail McGovern, president of Fidelity Personal Investments, scanned the audience, but only a few hands wavered upwards....
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
(@HarvardHBS) in which Working Knowledge makes experts available to Instagram users to ask questions about their research. What’s the most surprising thing you’ve learned in your research? Choudhury: One of the most surprising things I've realized is how, in our View Details
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by Kristen Senz
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
have typically fallen into HR's domain. The prevailing wisdom has been that if HR took care of those often intangible "soft" issues, line managers and executives would be free to focus on "hard" business issues and...
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- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
and (b) develop a personal involvement in the deployment and interpretation of those tools in important decision-making forums. Based on experts' ability to combine and balance these two processes, we distinguish analytically among four...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
To the extent that those "errors" bother us—and they do bother us if we care about the principle of Equal Sacrifice—we would want to tag only those characteristics closely related to income-earning ability. Q: Could the tax code tag other...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
States. At the same time, his family received food purchasing assistance from the Food Stamp program. He's pretty sure that these safety nets helped lead to the formation of his family's company. But while his personal experience...
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- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Abstract—Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to improving patient value: better...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery...
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- 13 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors
matter who that person is? And yes, it sort of does. Here we find that who you are and who is advocating for you, who is treating you, is making a difference.” Results don’t show exactly why male physicians don’t do as well with women, in...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
across their entire platform. For those who already own an iPhone or iPad, the Apple Watch is an exciting new product that can track biometric and personal data. Also think about how the Apple Watch can facilitate partnerships with the...
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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
In my research, I heard stories of Baxter colleagues providing useful advice regarding which job to take and when, so that they could navigate through that uncertainty. Second, it is evident that having "gone through wars together," these leaders were more...
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by Mallory Stark