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- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
periods of low trust. Everyone, it turns out, has a wobble. We also all have a driver where we’re rock solid, one that stays strong and steady in our interactions with others, regardless of the circumstances. One of the three trust drivers rarely lets us down, even if... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
to the point of paranoia, and so can organizations—building fortresses so strong they have trouble learning about and relating to customers and investors. Likewise, individuals can become so obsessed with learning that they forget to eat or View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 05 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat
any favors when we panic about our own goals. Freaked out because you smoked a cigarette after vowing to quit? The resultant cortisol boost may induce you cheat on your vow further, and sneak another one. Losing sleep because you cheated... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
In 2008, entrepreneur Brian Chesky and his two San Francisco roommates made the rounds of Silicon Valley VC firms with what they thought was a great idea: a website and mobile app that would allow homeowners to open their homes to strangers to View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
lots of hands go up. Over time they end up developing a negative emotion to that alarm clock. What's outwardly a low-impact $10 commitment is actually the source of deep feelings because sleep is so central to our lives." (According... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
a string of experiments to test how sleep affects decision making. After all, sleep can do many things—research has shown that a good eight hours of shut-eye can help make people more creative, more... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
addition, unconscious thought might be more dependable than conscious thought when we are low on energy. Preliminary research also indicates that using odor or sound cues during sleep might activate our unconscious mind and improve... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
plenty of water. Omega fatty acids, B and D vitamins, and antioxidants promote mental functioning; sugars and saturated fats impair it. Sleep As one of our wise CEOs noted, “The primary task of leaders is to avoid as many sleepless nights... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
asymmetry in message strength in turn permits cutoff equilibria, where players take action after receiving a minimum number of confirmations. Good Morning Creativity: Task Reactivation During Sleep Enhances Beneficial Effect of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
capital—anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000—yet get to scale quickly and build new applications on the Web. Sleeping By The Cell Phone Just as technology is influencing society, society is increasingly making demands on technology, said Sue... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
mobile devices experience "phantom vibration syndrome," when one's pocket buzzes and there's no phone there.) The second book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work, by Harvard... View Details
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
the Smartphone Addiction Published: May 14, 2012 In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Leslie Perlow explains how high-powered consultants disconnected from their mobile devices for a few hours every week-and how they became... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
tell." Next Steps In a related line of work, the researchers are studying whether our behavior is affected by how we sleep - curled up in the fetal position, for example, versus limbs sprawled across the bed. Bos and Cuddy also are... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
Year’s resolution. To turn a fitness aspiration into a habit, experts often recommend that people adopt rigid exercise routines and rituals, scheduling workouts or sleeping in running clothes, for example. But new research suggests that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
mentor to many entrepreneurs, describes how he responded to a manager who wanted to fire a salesperson. The customer loved the guy, but he wasn't working out internally. "Here's the desired result — to remove this person but with a positive result. First, View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made in the subconscious after some amount of preparation. That is, study the problem, sleep on it, and decide without further analysis. It's the type of decision making described by Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Blink. According to this... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
that occurs when group members reflect seems integral to the creative process." Sometimes, literally sleeping on an idea —perhaps dreaming about it — is enough to provide the necessary perspective and get a group moving from... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
percentage of my sleep right off the top. — So I'm telling you, okay?" So go the first lines to author Allan Gurganus's short story, "Blessed Assurance." As one of the works of literature that HBS MBA students wrestle with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace