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- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need
While companies may tout their wellness programs as a way of investing in their employees’ well-being, many are overly focused on reducing healthcare costs, so they tend to offer step challenges and gym discounts that workers don’t have time to use. Though these... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
- 14 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career
A few years ago, DJ DiDonna seemed to have everything going for him. He had started a successful venture called the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, which used psychometric factors to help banks issuing microloans in the developing world avoid risk. “We created an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
Business Administration. The detrimental health impacts of pressure-filled professions are increasingly getting the attention of business leaders, who are not only concerned about the welfare of their workers, but also have an eye on productivity, since research shows... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
Burnout, retention, and renewed labor organization are critical challenges for leaders, especially amid COVID-19 and a looming recession. Leaders must ask themselves: What is it about my organization’s culture that is contributing to such a high level of mental stress... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
the breadth and depth of our relationships with others are keys to wellbeing—not just happiness, but physical health. In this talk, I consider how we can actively tend to our connections with others in order to foster our own wellbeing... View Details
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Weather and Climate Change (37) Web Sites (8) Web (12) Weight (1) Welfare or Wellbeing (14) Wireless Technology (1) Work-Life Balance (52) Working Capital (1) Working Conditions (38) Contact HBS Working Knowledge Baker Library | Bloomberg... View Details
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A Commitment to Sustainability | About
CY 2023 Our Commitment Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to Harvard’s Sustainability Action Plan and the University’s mission to accelerate the adoption of systems and practices that protect the climate and environment, advance a more equitable society, and... View Details
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
of health problems, including depression and social anxiety, which can impact wellbeing and productivity at work. In fact, in a 2017 Harvard Business Review article, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that “a loneliness epidemic”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Social Progress Imperative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
the Social Progress Imperative, whose mission is to advance global human wellbeing by combining national social performance and capacity indicators with solutions-oriented outreach to sector leaders and grassroots champions. Measuring... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
time, employees must be trained to regularly communicate their progress to keep managers in the loop. 3. Support work-life wellbeing One of the unexpected outcomes of the pandemic has been a newfound appreciation for people’s humanity,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 May 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Robin Williams’ Son Help Other Families Heal Addiction and Depression?
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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Social Progress Imperative aims to advance global human wellbeing by combining national social performance and capacity indicators with solutions- oriented outreach. AllWorld Network AllWorld Network makes visible the scalable growth... View Details
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
weekly yoga class held during office hours might sound appalling to self-conscious workers who don’t want their colleagues seeing them in workout clothes. “Moving the needle on workplace wellbeing may sound simple, but it can be hard to... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
will help customers be more helpful The rapid spread of COVID-19 reminds us how our wellbeing is interconnected, and the flurry of heartwarming responses people have exhibited in the face of this crisis reveals our tremendous... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
presents scientific findings about human wellbeing throughout the lifespan. CASE STUDY The Art of the Merger: The Museum of Modern Art and PS1 Professor Dennis Yao No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info Professor Dennis... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
no impact on overall financial wellbeing or mental health. In fact, those who received debt relief were less likely to repay their other outstanding medical bills. Researchers found no impact on credit use and access or financial distress... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
Boosting psychological safety could be a game-changer, improving health care workers’ emotional wellbeing and reducing burnout, which could boost an organization’s retention rates and lower recruitment costs, Edmondson says. Edmondson and... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- News
Panera CEO Takes the Food Stamps Challenge
Ron Shaich, the CEO and founder of Panera Bread lived on a food and beverage budget of $4.50 per day for a week. That figure is about the same amount someone receiving food assistance would get per day. He joins Here & Now to share what he’s learned from the... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- News
Helping people get jobs
Ava Seave’s (MBA 1982) early career in publishing prepared her to launch Quantum Media, a consulting firm where she now helps grow the economy and create jobs. (Published May 2015) View Details