Exhaustion - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

exhaust themselves attending to a special needs child or ailing parent. Everyone frets over their physical and financial well-being. Who among us isn't anxious, stressed out, and off our game right now? From bolstering remote... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

organization's crisis response plans. Effective crisis response plans include the following ten elements: 1. A representative set of planning scenarios. It's essential to create a set of crisis scenarios that serve to guide planning. This need not be an View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

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

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Generative AI - Alumni

input information in so many ways, asking for 10 iterations of any bullet point will be exhaustive for the model. Close Using GenAI for Interview Prep One of the most important aspects of the job hunt is the interview, and the best way to... View Details

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

exhaustion after several years of dealing with surprises ranging from shortages and runs on basic goods to the Fed’s limited ability to control or even forecast inflation. Something will also have to be said eventually about the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

Portrait Project

Zoe Otedola

“Do it for them,” I whispered, sitting down to take the GMAT. Knowing only 4% of black test takers score over 700, tears pierced the corners of my eyes. Exhaustion creeped up my spine. I reminded myself I wasn’t taking this exam for me; I... View Details

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

is a place, like the contemporary United States, of real income inequality across its schools, even as its students are recruited from every sector of American life. Like the United States, it has enviable resources, and it manages to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its third exhausting year. Validating someone’s feelings can be as simple as pausing during the day to say, “You seem anxious,” says Zlatev, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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Events - Business History

Seminar Erik Baker, Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America 12PM-1PM. Erik Baker (Harvard University) will discuss his recent book. This is an in-person event. Lunch will be served. Feb 10 10 Feb 2025... View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

“[requiring] the most exhaustive investigation, careful thought, and conservatively weighted appraisals.” [10] Lehman Brothers also created an investment advisory service for wealthy individuals and families. During the Great Depression... View Details

15 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

No one wants to hear that their car exhaust is hurting the planet, or that their jeans were made in a sweatshop, or that their doughnut might give them diabetes one day. In fact, people often go to great lengths to avoid information that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

the engineering and consumer and product goods space. As I came into my last semester of undergrad I was exhausted and looking forward to having all of the fun. I had been going back-and-forth about whether or not to apply to HBS via the... View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

your funding decisions on your future. Personal support Exploring and resolving all the above issues can be an exhausting and even lonely process. Take care of yourself by taking pains to create and sustain a network of support, including... View Details

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

rushing around,” Whillans says. “These fun things will start to feel like obligations, and you’ll get exhausted trying to keep up.” Instead, build slack time into your day—small buffers of 15 minutes or longer between work appointments or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

this a priority, nagging them like worried grandmothers and sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

clear-headed adviser,” Eisenmann adds. “They’ve probably been doing the lion’s share of keeping the household on the rails and caring for children while you’ve been working 100-hour weeks and ignoring the family. At some point, you’ll View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

15 Mar 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

(including a number of full-page images) of steel production and research efforts. In subsequent annual reports from the early to mid 1940s, images of steel production placed alongside financial statistics underscored to stockholders the corporation’s View Details

19 Jun 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS Show?

exhausted by April and had, at times, put up blinders to the magic of HBS. If HBS could measure love, it would surely peak on campus during the week of the Show. As much as we love to hear people’s thanks, as Directors we can’t help but... View Details

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