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- 28 Feb 2020
- News
The Capital That Ate Wellness Is Going to Eat Your Mushrooms
- 13 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell
was finally ready to start EverlyWell a few years later, her education at HBS allowed her to jumpstart the company. Everlywell is a health and wellness company that provides at-home lab testing kits and digital results. The company offers... View Details
- 2015
- Chapter
Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well
By: Nien-he Hsieh
Business managers routinely make decisions that significantly affect the lives of others in both positive and negative ways. In the light of these wide-ranging effects, much scholarship has been devoted to specifying the responsibilities of managers of for-profit... View Details
Hsieh, Nien-he. "Managerial Responsibility and the Purpose of Business: Doing One's Job Well." Chap. 5 in Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy, edited by Georges Enderle and Patrick E. Murphy, 95–118. Studies in Transatlantic Business Ethics. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015.
- 27 Mar 2013
- News
Wells Fargo Investment Unit Paid Board Member’s Son $1.4 Million
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with... View Details
- September 2023
- Supplement
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment
This PowerPoint accompanies Regina E. Herzlinger's "Fighting the Battle of the Bulge – Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment" teaching note (HBS Case No.324-013) and is designed for instructors to use in the classroom when teaching this... View Details
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
Is it still possible to build a career that is both morally satisfying and materially rewarding? To do well by doing good? Professionals and executives in a range of fields grapple with this question as rapid technological change and... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Building businesses that benefit a community as well as the bottom line
Richard Sussman (GMP 12, 2012) is using his work in private equity to guide start-up firms toward benefiting others as they grow their businesses (Published April 2014) View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering a synergy at work that benefits associates as well as customers
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), CEO of Zensar Technologies, is cultivating a collaborative management philosophy and innovative HR policies to ensure its 7,000 associates help customers achieve their business needs. At the core of the India-based IT company is an... View Details
- October 2022
- Case
Weapons of Self Destruction: Zak Pym Williams and the Cultivation of Mental Wellness
By: Lauren Cohen, Ronnie Stangler and Grace Headinger
Zak Pym Williams, mental health advocate, grappled with the question of how to create a proactive mental health family environment for his children. Having witnessed how mental health challenges such as addiction and depression had impacted the past four generations of... View Details
Keywords: Family; U.S.; Mental Health; Family Business; Entertainment; Values and Beliefs; Ethics; Leading Change; Family and Family Relationships; Well-being; Social Issues; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California
Cohen, Lauren, Ronnie Stangler, and Grace Headinger. "Weapons of Self Destruction: Zak Pym Williams and the Cultivation of Mental Wellness." Harvard Business School Case 223-033, October 2022.
- 25 Feb 2025
- News
Some Jobs Can Be Done Well Remotely. Inspecting Isn’t One of Them
- June 2013
- Teaching Plan
Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo
By: Guhan Subramanian and Charlotte Krontiris
This case follows the events of a crucial week in the 2008 financial crisis, when the federal government orchestrated the sale of Wachovia Bank first to Citigroup and then, in a surprise move, to Wells Fargo. We examine the extraordinary relations between government... View Details
Keywords: Citigroup; Wachovia; Wells Fargo; FDIC; Acquisition; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; United States
Subramanian, Guhan, and Charlotte Krontiris. "Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 913-044, June 2013.
- Summer 2025
- Article
Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life
By: Leslie Perlow and Salvatore J Affinito
When individuals engage in fulfilling activities outside of work, they perform better on the job, but simply encouraging work-life balance doesn’t help with hour-by-hour time management. A new tool for measuring the subjective value of time for individuals as it varies... View Details
Perlow, Leslie, and Salvatore J Affinito. "Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life." MIT Sloan Management Review 66, no. 4 (Summer 2025): 44–49.
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Returnable Reciprocity: Returnable Gifts Are More Effective than Unreturnable Gifts at Promoting Virtuous Behaviors
By: J.J. Zlatev and Rogers, T.
Increasing virtuous behaviors, such as initiating healthy habits, is an important goal for policymakers and social scientists. To promote compliance with requests to perform virtuous behaviors, we study “returnable reciprocity.” Whereas traditional reciprocity involves... View Details
Keywords: Nudges; Reciprocity; Want-should Conflicts; Wellness; Health; Behavior; Change; Well-being
Zlatev, J.J., and Rogers, T. "Returnable Reciprocity: Returnable Gifts Are More Effective than Unreturnable Gifts at Promoting Virtuous Behaviors." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 161, Supplement (November 2020): 74–84.
- 2015
- Chapter
The Demise of US Dynamism is Vastly Exaggerated—But Not All is Well
By: Amar Bhidé
Bhidé, Amar. "The Demise of US Dynamism is Vastly Exaggerated—But Not All is Well." In Understanding the Growth Slowdown, edited by Brink Lindsey. Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2015.