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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
network offers help on a range of issues, Walker says, from something as simple as how to buy groceries to something as serious as the emotional stresses of displacement and change in family life. "We also meet often with international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
like Mills, stressed the importance of having outside researchers analyze agency data. “You would be surprised at the limited resources we have to analyze the data, compared to the way that the academic community can analyze it for us.”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to online marketing, we have an opportunity not simply to see the metrics used in online marketing budget allocation, but also the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
then. A lot of this happened simultaneous to the filming of Scarface, which was looked at as an affront to Miami. Miami had a huge case of post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, with the race riots and the cocaine explosion and the Mariel... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
a lecture titled "The Frontiers of Management," in which she stressed the importance of continuous innovation and of developing employees' skills in creating organizational competence. "I was struck by Kanter's point that innovation truly... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
Gisholt gave the go-ahead, the recall came off without a hitch and garnered a warm customer response. “Thank you for your diligence in keeping us informed during this stressful time,” read one e-mail. “It reinforces the wisdom of our... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
capitalizations are afraid that a return to the wasteful state-owned enterprises of the past is imminent. In this essay we propose two alternative views. First, we stress the resilience of state-owned enterprises, which have been around... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
have a three-year-old and a demanding job, but at the end of the day, staying healthy is my job number one. But I would be lying, if I didn't tell you I had ups and downs. And for me, stress is a trigger and as I have periods of stress, I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
taxi drivers," Mukhtar notes. "They are typically an older group, and their occupation by its nature is a sedentary one." The drivers' diet is poor (too many irregular junk food meals consumed on the go), working conditions are stressful... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
five adults report feeling that they have too much to do and not enough time to do it. These time-poor people experience less joy each day. They laugh less. They are less healthy, less productive, and more likely to divorce. In one study, time View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Abstract—We tested whether engaging in expansive (vs. contractive) "power poses" before a stressful job interview-preparatory power posing-would enhance performance during the interview. Participants adopted high-power (i.e.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
source of much stress because they almost always have implications that ripple throughout the film and force multiple changes, as we just saw. In that postmortem, one employee recalled that John Lasseter, director of the film and a... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
I was growing our baby and then laboring to bring him into this world. Regardless of the pain, discomfort, and emotional stress that accompanies pregnancy and motherhood, I would do it 100 times over again. Because outweighing the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Oaxaca City, local activist Gustavo Esteva, a founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, gave us a crash course in Zapotec culture, a way of life for the area’s indigenous people who first settled the Oaxaca valley thousands of years ago. In his talk, Esteva... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Financial Crisis: Timothy Geithner and the Stress Tests In February and March 2009, the U.S. economy was in the midst of a terrifying financial and economic crisis. Between the beginning of 2008 and early 2009, four of the 25 largest U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
important to me as a kid, even if I now consider myself somewhere between an agnostic and a believer. The cultural values of trying to heal and do good in the world have stayed with me.” Singer’s father had always stressed the importance... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
offer. “Whether students see the contest as an immediate payoff or as a way to gain a credential in the future, I think they believe it is something worth doing,” says Hart. In conversations with past contest participants, each stressed... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
activation inspired improvements in people’s emotions, resistance to disease, resilience to stress and burnout, creative problem solving, performance under pressure, and relationships with their employer. Results also revealed that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
Previously, Martin, at French mass retailer The Casino Group, and Giraud, at Euro Disney (with Bourguignon), had both proven their mettle as managers in turnaround situations. Martin and Giraud stress that Club Med's core business is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
Administration, chairs the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise, teaches the MBA elective Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector, and is the author of numerous articles and cases on the subject. Stressing the power and importance of a... View Details