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  • 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
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • News

From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
  • Web

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
  • 09 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

long-term chart of life and career. The Difference Between Happiness and Success In addition to the nuances of each alum’s story and the micro-themes that connected them, a fourth and final major theme that emerged was the ease at which... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In My Humble Opinion: Role Model

One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; acting; theater; diversity; career path; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 25 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

cost, worthwhile profits can be made, while bringing enormous health and happiness to large populations.” The approach turns traditional marketing on its head This model encourages manufacturers to offer their often-contested patented... View Details
Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • October 17, 2022
  • Article

Relational Diversity in Social Portfolios Predicts Well-Being

By: Hanne K. Collins, Serena F. Hagerty, Jordi Quoidbach, Michael I. Norton and Alison Wood Brooks
We document a link between the relational diversity of one’s social portfolio—the richness and evenness of relationship types across one’s social interactions—and well-being. Across four distinct samples, respondents from the United States who completed a preregistered... View Details
Keywords: Social Interaction; Social Engagement; Well-being; Happiness; Social and Collaborative Networks; Family and Family Relationships
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  • 04 Apr 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

and seeing what sort of results and ads he’d get back. He wasn’t happy with what he saw . Some of the ads were completely unrelated to the search . In a normal company, the CEO, seeing a bad product, would call the person in charge of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2024
  • Book

The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

By: Michael Norton
Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to keep us on track—what we come to know as habits. Over time, these routines (for example, brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) tend to be performed automatically. But when we’re more mindful about... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Happiness; Performance Productivity; Attitudes
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  • 09 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

and we hyperfocus on the risks rather than the potential. I find it really inspiring that so many alumni have followed their hearts, taken unconventional paths, and still ended up where they wanted to be and are happy with the outcome.... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

minimills entered the rebar market, the integrated mills were happy to exit it. Their gross margins in the rebar business were a mere 7 percent, and rebar accounted for only 4 percent of the industry's tonnage. So the integrated mills... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
  • 17 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

turnover, and that is incredibly costly because you have to search for new people and train them, plus you have a short-term decline in productivity,” Rouen says. “And then you have the people who stay but are dissatisfied and won’t work as hard. If you’re not making... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

Happiness can be dangerous as well, since happy negotiators tend to accept less than they might otherwise be able to get. "You don't want your happiness to hijack other... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Happier-ness at Work

Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Work and Well-being: A Global Perspective

By: Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, and Council Members: A. Blankson, A. Clark, C. Cooper, H. James, C. Krekel, J. Lim, P. Litchfield, J. Moss, M. I. Norton, M. Rojas, G. Ward and A.V. Whillans
Work and employment play a central role in most people’s lives. In OECD countries, for example, people spend around a third of their waking hours engaged in paid work. We not only spend considerable amounts of our time at work, employment and workplace quality also... View Details
Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Happiness; Policy; Global Range
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  • Research Summary

Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation

By: Alison Wood Brooks

Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details

  • 06 Jul 2023
  • News

Home Economics

provides financial and business education, monetary investments, and coaching to women who live in extreme poverty. “We are very proud and happy to be able to save,” says Anita Aguilar Cruz, a shop owner in the community, as each peso is... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 30 May 2024
  • News

How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

illegal business entities don’t incorporate to make people happy or to make people better. They incorporate to make people money. Everything else good that happens beyond that is icing on the stakeholders’ cake.” Others differed. Michael... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

L. Reinhardt Michael E. Porter See All HBS Working Knowlege 09 Apr 2024 Sustaining a Legacy of Giving in Turkey Re: Christina R. Wing 05 Dec 2023 Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Clothing Line: Making Fashion Inclusive 15 Aug 2023 Why Giving to Others Makes Us View Details