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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
disconnected from work. The second has to do with the notion of leisure: “It sounds like such a luxury and something we shouldn’t permit ourselves to have, but we’re seeing how leisure contributes to our success,” Carbonell says.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017
better success getting job interviews, according to research by Katherine DeCelles and colleagues. Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle It used to be that we equated power and prestige with a leisurely, luxurious lifestyle. Today, lack of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
despite rates comparable to or better than those offered in this country. Deighton and Barwise also warn that interacting digitally with marketers may not remain a favorite use of consumers' scarce leisure time, especially after the... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
large contract from the U.S. Army that put its combat boots on the feet of more than two million soldiers. Its success carried into the postwar boom economy. Building on the Sport-Man brand, the company added a line of hiking boots and became more aware of... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
leader." In fact, Kraus, faced her own crossroads in recent years after achieving great success as an entrepreneur. In 1997 she cofounded Circles, a concierge and events company that grew into a $50 million business. She sold Circles in 2007 and then led Spire, a... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
cost of leisure is lower. We interpret these results as evidence of differences in preferences for leisure across CEOs rather than optimal responses to organizational differences correlated with ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
without a lost time accident.” Another image documenting employees’ rights to file complaints captured management and union representatives together at a grievance committee meeting. Pictures of baseball games and other leisure activities... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
Tucker: “Traveling. It brought me closer to sectionmates and friends. It allowed me to add a more global context to the things we were learning at campus. Also, it’s not something I get to do as often for leisure now that I am no longer a... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
friends. It allowed me to add a more global context to the things we were learning at campus. Also, it’s not something I get to do as often for leisure now that I am no longer a student.” Pathipati: I really enjoyed our section activities... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
the corporate world to suck people's home and leisure time away from them. Most people are only fooling themselves when they think ordering take out (an unhealthy option, when done too much) or hiring a housecleaner will give them that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
manufacturing, China. The average rate of pay in services is higher than that in manufacturing in the US in spite of the low-paying leisure and hospitality jobs that are often cited incorrectly as characteristic of service jobs. The loss... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
the increasing role of technology (digital and mobile) as well as the use by consumers of alternative signals of status, such as wearing less prominently branded apparel, being less conformist (e.g., entering a luxury store in a casual outfit), consuming View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
projects, two studies are related to how we ought to tax people when they differ in multiple ways. One shows that taxes ought to be less progressive when preferences for leisure time vary widely in society, and I find that international... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
“Traveling. It brought me closer to sectionmates and friends. It allowed me to add a more global context to the things we were learning at campus. Also, it’s not something I get to do as often for leisure now that I am no longer a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
now affiliated with Kimpton. We’re adding private porches and lush, tropical landscaping and renovating the rooms; it hasn’t been terrible timing, because we were already under construction when the pandemic took hold. The way we’re thinking, as I mentioned before, is... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
a division, the platforms one can stand on to make a leaderly difference appear altogether more numerous, flexible, and portable over the years —a small firm, a community organization, maybe even a family. And what of our leisure time,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
is now an absolute focal point, meaning that flights typically serving leisure or corporate travelers—the latter accounting for more than 50 percent of current air travel in the country—will be reduced in favor of more site-to-site... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Media, Entertainment, & Leisure When it comes to assessing change over the past 25 years, perhaps the best place to start is technology. When Moore began her job in the finance department at Time magazine, she was set up with the... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4 demonstrates that the expectation of being able to engage in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
reenergize the industry. Will Southwest's no-frills, point-to-point approach become the new dominant business model, or will traditional carriers reinvent their businesses? This question has even more resonance in the wake of the global financial crisis that has... View Details