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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Less Info Happiness levels are plummeting in the United States. People disagree about why this slump is happening – technology, polarized culture, the economy, politics, etc. – but we all know it’s happening. Journeying toward greater... View Details

02 Sep 2015
What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

added: “I think there may be too many variables left out here The relative happiness of an employee base has bottom-line repercussions far beyond customer satisfaction.” What’s to be done? At the very least, FISSINNF suggests that greater... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion

11 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

When Parents Tell Kids to ‘Work Hard,’ Do They Send the Wrong Message?

course of their lives.” You Might Also Like: Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security Related reading from the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

half paid a fixed salary—with choices such as: “Would you go to a happy hour with colleagues or go to your friend’s birthday party?” People who were paid primarily with performance incentives were up to two-thirds more likely to choose... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

24 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It

have to be this way? How could we make it better?" You Might Also Like: When Your Passion Works Against You More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

we even talk about romantic relationships, I want to understand more about you and what makes you happy. So think about a person in your life who genuinely makes you happy when you're around them. It could be a friend or family member, it... View Details

07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

don't forgive that." Ironically, a personal failure often occurs because an entrepreneur is trying too hard to avoid an enterprise failure. Trying to keep the venture capitalists happy and bankruptcy at bay, the founder or CEO will... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic bank CEOs has evolved over time... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

collaboration. 1. Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead. Self-improvement doesn't need to be painful. Rather than set yet another gym goal, look inward, retrain your brain, and get outside, says Hirotaka Takeuchi. 2. More Proof That Money... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

childhood paper route. “What I’ve learned is that you don’t have all the answers. You take the info you have within the time frame given, and you make the best decision you can, even if it isn’t always right,” he says. “It’s fun to be in the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

2011
Book

The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer

The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of employees who have great inner work lives-consistently positive emotions; strong motivation; and favorable perceptions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. The worst managers undermine... View Details

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Prosocial Spending and Happiness: Using Money to Benefit Others Pays Off

By: Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lara B. Aknin and Michael I. Norton

While a great deal of research has shown that people with more money are somewhat happier than people with less money, our research demonstrates that how people spend their money also matters for their happiness. In particular, both correlational and... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Well-being; Happiness; Money; Spending; Welfare; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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01 Sep 2023
News

Solving for Z

happy with and what more needs to be done to make Apollo a better and more attractive place to work. “You’ve got to co-create your culture,” he says. “And how do you do that? You ask for feedback. So I position myself as the walking... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

26 Nov 2018
Book

Make Your Employees Feel Psychologically Safe

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Skydeck - Alumni

from eight years of personal data tracking Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation Author and former Walmart executive Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) offers lessons from his quest for happiness How Women's Basketball... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

chain, in which case that manager will likely be happy to consider language that you might propose regarding your contributions. Avoid a statement that you are leaving to pursue other interests or spend more time with family; these are... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

“Difference is an acquired preference,” a colleague once told me. The statement seemed rather strange to me at first. Upon reflection, though, I understood what my colleague was saying: Difference is uncomfortable, unfamiliar, and sometimes even unsafe. Whether it is... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

01 Sep 2023
News

That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Government and Politics (455) Groups and Teams (37) Growth Management (12) Growth and Development Strategy (40) Growth and Development (16) Happiness (29) Health Care and Treatment (96) Health Disorders (3) Health Pandemics (32) Health... View Details

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Call Ryan Serhant: How to Manage Your Time for Happiness Real estate entrepreneur, television star, husband, and father Ryan Serhant is incredibly busy and successful. He starts his days at 4 a.m. and often doesn’t end them until 11 p.m.... View Details