Vacation - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2023
Book

You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

this can feel, there’s also an amount of agency and growth that I think is really freeing.” You Might Also Like: When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career Time to Move On? Career Advice for... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

14 Jun 2023
Research & Ideas

Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

Perks like remote work or unlimited vacation time might be nice, but when it comes to true fulfillment in a post-pandemic workscape, psychological safety is essential. Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson coined the term... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

June 2021
Case

Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards

In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not... View Details

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02 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better

business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and founder of The Sabbatical Project. You Might Also Like: How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars' When a View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

04 Mar 2024
What Do You Think?

Do People Want to Work Anymore?

while the partners are able to more than double the percentage of revenue brought to the bottom line. The decision in the case has to do with how best to go to a four-day workweek with three-day weekends and paid vacations for everyone.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

from here to there as fast as possible. Disney does the job of providing warm, safe, fantasy vacations for families. OnStar provides peace of mind. Procter & Gamble's product success rate rose dramatically when the company started... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

That High-Performing Teams NeedStruggling to spark strategic risk-taking and creative thinking? In the post-pandemic workplace, teams need psychological safety more than ever, and a new analysis by Amy Edmondson highlights the best ways to nurture it. When a View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

worse tenants. The fact that Walton had acquired the lease to a store in Newport that Kroger was vacating and then set up a small department store himself, which he called the Eagle Store, might not have been completely irrelevant in... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail

28 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

says. “That is enormously satisfying to them—and it motivates them to work even harder.” Also, research shows that employees who take time off are less stressed and more engaged, more creative, and more productive. Give the gift of time, not just through generous View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

trip by, for example, vacationing closer to home; drive more economically and less aggressively to improve miles per gallon; and buy a specific dollar amount of gas rather than filling up every time, even though this may mean more visits... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

attendance and behavior, asked some workers to reapply for their jobs, and gave what seemed like unmanageable workloads to others. Some employees returned from vacation to find that a company car, badge, or desk had been stripped from... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

5 Companies Where Employees Move Up the Ladder Fast

initial terms and conditions of employment. Most workers accept a new job thinking of fundamentals like salary, title, and vacation time. But, says Fuller, they also need to be looking at the long-term. Where do employees end up? Are they... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Quiet Leader—and How to Be One

is to writing about difficult ethical decisions?" Or put differently, what happens in between the big decisions—which don't come along very often? For some people they come along very, very infrequently. Does this mean these people are on View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Web

Planned Giving - Alumni

and hedge fund investments may be used to make a gift. Real Estate You can use real estate that you no longer need or enjoy, such as a personal residence, vacation home, or commercial property, to support HBS. Simplify Your Philanthropy... View Details

Profile

Joel Hurd

joined the class via Zoom it was definitely too awkward to forget. What is your favorite childhood memory? Vacations were non-existent growing up, but my high school’s marching band spent a week at a summer camp in the woods of northern... View Details

28 Jul 2023
Blog Post

How I Landed My Manufacturing Internship at HBS

companies Kristen had suggested I apply to. The recruiter and I shared a personal connection – her father was from Buffalo, my hometown in Western New York. As a child, I took a family weekend vacation to the Corning Glass Museum, located... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

helped her get through her own sixteen-hour ordeal. While on a weekend vacation from Save the Children in 1995, Crotty boarded one of Indonesia's chronically overcrowded ferryboats. Several hours into the trip, as night was falling, the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

vacation days we normally let go unused. Video: Managers, respect your workers’ time by setting the right toneView Video “In the moment, these decisions may seem inconsequential or easy to reverse, but they’re not,” Whillans says. “We... View Details