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- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
Longtime GE CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) announced his retirement Monday, set to take effect on August 1. John Flannery, president and chief executive of GE Healthcare, was named... View Details
- 21 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
What Does PRIDE Mean to You?
community. Before coming to HBS, I worked in finance, and through joining LGBTQ+ mentoring programs like Out4Undergrad and founding pride networks at prior companies, I... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
early-twentieth-century social scientists is what we call "the meaning and organization problem." One of the main trends of modern... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
What were the management trends in 2009? Fascination with social networking and rethinking common wisdom about goal setting. Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 5 working... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 2014
- Article
Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity
By: Jooa Julia Lee, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats
People believe that weather conditions influence their everyday work life, but to date, little is known about how weather affects individual productivity. Contrary to conventional wisdom, we predict and find that bad weather increases individual productivity and that... View Details
Keywords: Productivity; Opportunity Cost; Distractions; Weather; Performance Productivity; Cognition and Thinking
Lee, Jooa Julia, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats. "Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity." Journal of Applied Psychology 99, no. 3 (May 2014): 504–513.
- 14 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity
- 2012
- Working Paper
Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity
By: Jooa Julia Lee, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats
People believe that weather conditions influence their everyday work life, but to date, little is known about how weather affects individual productivity. Most people believe that bad weather conditions reduce productivity. In this research, we predict and find just... View Details
Keywords: Productivity; Opportunity Cost; Distractions; Weather; Performance Productivity; Social Psychology; Mathematical Methods
Lee, Jooa Julia, Francesca Gino, and Bradley R. Staats. "Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-005, July 2012.
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
The Unexpected Influence of Stories Told at Work
- 12 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
What Does PRIDE at HBS Mean to You?
build connections with members of the community that I was able to be myself with. Putting on a “straight face” all week while we discussed cases and worked on problem sets... View Details
What Does "Stakeholder Capitalism" Mean to You?
Business leaders are being urged to adopt a multistakeholder approach to governance in place of the shareholder-centered approach that has guided their work for several decades. But through hundreds of interviews with directors, executives, investors, governance... View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy
You have been financially planning for retirement for years, consulting with advisors, estimating your expenses, and adjusting your portfolio. Now with retirement on the... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
asks professor John Quelch. 20. Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India Entrepreneurship in both China and India is rising dramatically and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 2003
- Book
When You Say Yes But Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies
By: Leslie Perlow
“Saying yes when you really mean no” is a problem that haunts organizations from start-ups to multi-nationals. It exists across industries, levels, and functions. And it’s exacerbated by a down economy, when the fear of losing one’s job is on everybody’s mind and the... View Details
Perlow, Leslie. When You Say Yes But Mean No: How Silencing Conflict Wrecks Relationships and Companies. New York: Crown Business, 2003.
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
Rohingya’s spirits and break the monotony of life at a refugee camp. But, Hussam wondered if small work opportunities could help refugees reclaim their roles as providers,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 2025
- Book
Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram
Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details
Keywords: Retirement
Amabile, Teresa M., Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall, and Kathy E. Kram. Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You. Routledge, 2025.
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
Ebrahim says. "But donors have a role to play in enabling impact, and they have an opportunity to connect nonprofits that are working on different pieces of a social problem in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
insights in particular: Employees and managers can disagree on impact. Although employees and managers may both think the impact of a person’s View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 30 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries