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- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
open bar happy hours with David Fairhurst, a personal friend he had promoted to oversee human resources, and the two men developed reputations for “flirting with female employees.” HR allegedly didn’t intervene despite knowledge of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Illustration by Jose Ortega Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
company: I read a story that early on an engineer wanted to institute happy hour Fridays and a decision was made not to do that for reasons having to do with culture. Can you tell us what happened and the decision making that went into... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
a Harvard Business Review classic, and has just been reissued in book form. We asked Sahlman what he would change if he wrote the article, now a decade old, today. 6. Spending on Happiness Money can't buy you love but it can buy... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
Research Centers. For instance, (HBS professor) Tarun Khanna is working with the Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong and the Global Research Group in Boston on a case about a large financial services group. For the interviews at the group's head office in Europe,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
economies. Based on the overwhelming success of our event, which was a great example of collaboration with Alumni Relations and the Club of London, and BEI and SEI, it is clear that the topics of climate and impact will be a central, recurring theme for our... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
1999). She adds that three attendees at a time went to virtual breakout rooms for 10 minutes and then returned to main group for larger discussion. “This was repeated three times and everyone agreed for us to share contact information so they could follow up after the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
parents and others are happy because somebody’s taking a rational look at all this. But there’s always a tendency for people to say, “You’re telling me I bought my child, and that’s a horrible thing to say.” — Garry Emmons View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
businesses were monetized, and we were able to focus exclusively on Panera. As we went through a year and a half of divestitures, our stock sank to a split-adjusted $3 a share. Those were not happy times. What’s your stock worth now? It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
achieve success, have meaningful relationships, make a difference to society and secure a fulfilling and happy life. This book will help you discover how your paradigm is created, what factors impact it, and how you can take control of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
having a more diverse and balanced life." In London, Debbie Sandford says that her view of success has changed since she graduated in 1990. "It is much more closely linked in my mind to happiness and balance and less to achievement than... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
other oftentimes gets lost. So I want it to be a two way street. And they were so happy with that. They said, you know what, if we get this going, we could probably live together, and there's so many things that we could do. And they and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
HOW PART OF YOUR IDENTITY SEEMS TO GO AWAY AS YOU GO THROUGH THE ORIENTATION PROCESS.” Previous studies have shown that employees are especially productive and happy when employers encourage them to use their individual signature... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
firm," Hilsinger relates. Last year an energy fund managed by Accel Group decided to invest in Mavel, and as part of Mavel's management team, Hilsinger is watching over that investment. "The Czech Republic was a new world to me, but I am very View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and food habits to marriage and old age, from music and language to celebrities and censorship, he looks at over a hundred ads to study how the Indian consumer has changed over the past five decades and how advertising and society have shaped each other. The View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
reputational gains from the agreement for the city, “We were worldwide news. In that way it worked out really well.” But she acknowledged that there were also skeptical points of view. “The only immediate result was the tax agreement, which we were really View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
arise. Although she does her best to support and empathize, she also keeps in mind a key lesson that she says took years of perspective to learn: not everyone will be happy all of the time. In other words, don’t fret that there will never... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
preparing to retire from Greenwich Associates, the investment consulting firm he founded in 1972, his friend and HBS classmate Fred Joseph asked him what was next. “I said that I didn’t know, but that I’d had a wonderful, happy life, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
happiness and altruism, the psychology of cheating, and our amazing ability to rationalize our questionable behavior. Almost all have implications for business as well as public policy. He plans further equality-focused research in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
has steered off course. What do men and women not get about each other? Women just don’t get that men are remarkably simple. A sandwich, some sports on TV, and sex — you’ve got a happy man. Women are unnecessarily complicated, and men... View Details