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1.5 Attendance - MBA
Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing Policies 6. Important Contact Information The MBA Program is a fully immersive, in-person, two-year educational experience and a student’s class attendance and participation are critical components of the HBS Learning... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
directors of CIBC, the C.D. Howe Institute, and the Business Council of Canada. Maureen earned an AB from Harvard College and a JD from Boston College Law School, and she clerked for Justice Ruth Abrams. She serves on the boards of the Centre for Addiction and View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
Rotemberg Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career
His research comes at a time when an increasing number of people report being worn out on the job, with 43 percent of middle managers reporting burnout in the US and 70 percent of C-suite workers considering quitting to search for jobs that better suit their View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
negative reactions to unhelpful and risky chatbot responses, highlighting emerging reputational risks for generative AI companies. Keywords: Autonomy ; Chatbots ; New Technology ; Brand Crises ; Mental Health ; Large Language View Details
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
and managers alike face unprecedented obstacles every day. In March and early April, as COVID-19 spread worldwide, a study by Mind Share Partners in partnership with Qualtrics and SAP found that 42 percent of respondents said their mental... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
office to go to and no work to do. Managers were told to expect the five stages of grief from their upset subordinates—the Kübler-Ross model typically associated with handling death. Senior leaders told lower-level managers to drum up... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Profile
Soltan Bryce
experiences in health care and farming added up to one common cause: sustainability. Moving from agriculture to health care after graduation from college, Soltan realized the same mental model could be... View Details
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
And they may not admit to themselves or others how lonely or mentally exhausting the job is and try to “tough it out,” refusing to seek help from people they trust. As the previous section suggested, finding a confidante and making the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
first of the three fundamental approaches to reflection has traditionally been called contemplation, or downshifting from time to time. At work, many people tend to focus on output, and their minds act like race car engines, firing on all cylinders at 200 miles an hour... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
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1.4.5 Required Summer Work Experience & Internship Courses - MBA
1.4 Academic Program Specifics 1.4.5 Required Summer Work Experience & Internship Courses Welcome to HBS Being a Student at HBS 1. Academic Information & Policies 1.1 HBS Community Values 1.2 MBA Honor Code 1.3 Academic Calendar 1.4 Academic Program Specifics 1.4.1 HBS... View Details
- 22 Jun 2022
- Book
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
required, however, is an actual new experience about our current reality and both an implicit and symbolic understanding of that new experience. This will never come from employing our conditioned current mental View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
Our work can literally make us sick. Long hours, impossible demands from bosses, and uncertain job security can take their toll on our mental and physical well-being, leading to stress-induced aches and pains and anxiety. In extreme... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
margins of academic discourses and their own institutions. There was a constant struggle to define the borders of the field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the complexities of business and the... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
promoting dishonesty are discussed. Article The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher-order View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
and waste" mentality to a "product and product" mentality, and thereby actively manage the quantities of both products to maximize profit. We find that it is almost never profit-maximizing for the firm to continue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental... View Details