Spirituality - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

“Meditation” as we define it—based on the work of Herbert Benson performed at Harvard Medical School—is a simple practice that neither requires spiritual belief nor supplants other beliefs or methods you may follow. For 10 to 20 minutes,... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

issues that profit brings to a social service organization. Founded thirty-five years ago, the small, multiservice nonprofit Haley House is a spiritually based community organization that serves "society's forgotten people"—the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

Mainstream churches, meanwhile, were not benefiting from the distanced relationship, and indeed were ceding ground to secular spirituality and its offshoots from New Age crystals to personal empowerment. How to bridge the Sunday-Monday... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

spiritual growth, growth in top-level sporting teams, and so on." Angelo Giovas goes even further in suggesting that "the key is not more outward growth (which, as was pointed out in the article, has its limits) but more inward... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

in India, as well as HBS Deans Wallace Donham and Donald David. It shows that there were quite different drivers that led business leaders to advocate corporate responsibility. Often strong religious and spiritual values were the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 10

instructors have gone so far as to copyright their varieties of yoga; others in the yoga community say it is a religious and/or spiritual practice and as such should not be claimed as intellectual property. Purchase this... View Details