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- 11 Apr 2024
Life at HBS Chat with the Women's Student Association
Join this interactive session for a Life at HBS Chat that focuses on women at HBS. This virtual event is a unique opportunity to hear from current HBS students in the Women's Student Association (WSA)... View Details
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What to Know About Locating in a Cluster
By: Willy C. Shih and Sen Chai
As a study of two industry clusters in Denmark shows, factors that can make clusters attractive—easy people movement and knowledge spillovers—can also make it harder for individual companies to retain proprietary knowledge. View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Clustering; Competitiveness; Life Sciences; Telecommunications; Science-based; Research And Development; Industry Clusters; Research; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Geographic Location; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Denmark
Shih, Willy C., and Sen Chai. "What to Know About Locating in a Cluster." Art. 57117. MIT Sloan Management Review 57, no. 1 (Fall 2015): 104–107.
- 14 Nov 2019
- Video
Health Minute: Good Management Can Save Your Life
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Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent... View Details
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 12, no. 3 (July 2013): 285–319.
- 07 Jul 2021
Life at HBS Chat: SA & Section Leadership
Life At HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. These current students will share their backgrounds and talk about how they have cultivated their personal and... View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
- News
Time Affluence: The Path to a Meaningful Life
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
change the story in his head. He decided to pretend that he was flying a Cessna, which makes no sense, and he stopped reacting to all these emergencies in his environment and started pro-acting. But what's... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It
Research released recently by iseecars.com seems to indicate a fleeting happiness with luxury cars. New buyers of BMW, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche sell them more frequently in the first year than owners of other models.... View Details
- Web
Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity
who work full time and whose spouses or partners also work full time. The observed data from our 2018 survey, Life & Leadership After HBS: Personal and Professional Paths, have been weighted to represent the alumni profiled View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
wounded, one seriously,” he says. “I was the only one not touched.” Berkley swore to live a life of service if he got home safely. Now 99 years old, Berkley can say he’s delivered on this promise, having contributed to a number of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- September 2021
- Article
Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Ruo Mo, Adam Eric Greenberg, Bertus Jeronimus and Ashley V. Whillans
There is widespread consensus that income and subjective well-being are linked, but when and why they are connected is subject to ongoing debate. We draw on prior research that distinguishes between the frequency and intensity of happiness to suggest that higher income... View Details
Jachimowicz, Jon M., Ruo Mo, Adam Eric Greenberg, Bertus Jeronimus, and Ashley V. Whillans. "Income More Reliably Predicts Frequent Than Intense Happiness." Social Psychological & Personality Science 12, no. 7 (September 2021): 1294–1306.
- 26 May 2015
- News
Exploring tax policy and our quality of life
says Weinzierl. “The point is: people are debating much bigger questions. What do we want this society to be like?” Through economics—and a little humor—Weinzierl’s research parses how people answer that question. Should tall people pay higher taxes than short people?... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
Is it possible to truly empower employees to make their own decisions—even when those decisions could mean life or death? That is the question posed by Dutch home healthcare organization Buurtzorg, which has... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
Life at HBS Chat with the LatAm Club
Join this interactive session for a Life at HBS Chat with the LatAm Club. This virtual event is a unique opportunity to hear from current HBS students in the LatAm Club regarding their MBA experience.... View Details
- 29 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
New Life for Old Tech: Startup Provides Network Security Solutions for Obsolete Devices
MRI machines play a critical role in hospital operations. Yet, like other legacy devices that typically have decades-long life cycles, MRI machines are likely to have been purchased long before network or... View Details
- November 2006
- Article
It Must Be Awful for Them: Healthy People Overlook Disease Variability in Quality of Life Judgments
By: H. Lacey, A. Fagerlin, G. Lowenstein, D. Smith, Jason Riis and P. Ubel
Lacey, H., A. Fagerlin, G. Lowenstein, D. Smith, Jason Riis, and P. Ubel. "It Must Be Awful for Them: Healthy People Overlook Disease Variability in Quality of Life Judgments." Judgment and Decision Making 1, no. 2 (November 2006): 146–152.