Time Stress - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

starters, Karen Caswelch suggested that we take steps to ensure that in our hiring, we consistently select people who share and value behaviors that produce trust as a shield against management turnover that leads to broken commitments. Mike Flanagan View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

other person necessarily even realizing it. A Learnable Habit The good news is that cultural metacognition is not fixed, but rather it is a mental habit that can be learned over time and through different circumstances. "People who have a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

splitting off into more isolated and well-defined communication networks, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Tiona Zuzul. The authors of the working paper stress that this shift is not necessarily negative, noting... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

15 Mar 2017
Blog Post

An Average Day at HBS

ahead. After discussion group, it’s time for class. Each day you either have two or three cases (fingers crossed for two!). You will know at the beginning of the semester which days you have two versus three cases per day, which helps you... View Details

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

Gino, a behavioral scientist, was working on a project about how time of day affects job interviews. (Note to job-hunters: Try to book a morning interview slot.) “As it turns out, the later one interviews in the day, the lower the score... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

05 Mar 2009
What Do You Think?

How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?

all organizations in all cultures, in times of success as opposed to decline, when talking about the past as opposed to the future, or in dealing with employees of all generations. As many respondents to this month's column pointed out,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Balancing Work & Life - Alumni

careful preparation, good communication, and a focus on solutions that work for all parties. Finding a Therapist At various times in life it is not unusual to experience transitions that can cause stress and... View Details

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

increase in antiwhite bias. In fact, on average, white respondents perceive more antiwhite bias than antiblack bias in the twenty-first century. "It's very hard to find a metric that suggests that white people actually have a worse time... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

[This is the sixth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We recently asked 600 CEOs: What is keeping you awake at night during this global pandemic? A major and multifaceted concern that emerged is... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Events - Business History

transcripts and video materials for teaching in different institutional contexts in Europe, India, Latin America, and the United States. Each session included time for discussion and debate, as the conference sought to lay the foundation... View Details

27 Jun 2019
Blog Post

My Week at Harvard Business School's Summer Venture in Management Program (SVMP)

directors stressed that we must manage our time well in order to finish reading the 2-3 cases assigned each night to prepare for each day of class (14 cases total!). The case method approach to learning... View Details

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

Maybe it goes without saying that the past two years have been stressful for employees. But new research suggests managers should say it anyway. That’s because verbally acknowledging someone else’s feelings, especially negative ones, can... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

stress, especially at schools that attract highly driven, highly competitive students. "We've known for a long time that chronically elevated levels of physiologic stress and psychological distress lead to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

brought on board were also close in a way Shelman found surprising when she spent time with them when researching the case. "There was huge camaraderie evident in the way that the top management team interacted with each other they... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Governance (ESG) increasingly guides investment management and corporate agendas nowadays, public reactions to firms' ESG performance remain under-studied. This paper fills this gap by investigating whether the public picks up firms' ESG performance changes View Details

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

do a parenting example. I'm deeply devoted to my children, but I have a hard time setting high standards for them. I believe it was Carol Dweck who once said, “You can either prepare the path for the boy or the boy for the path.” When I... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

McMaster University Develop techniques for building high-performing teams, coaching, delivering feedback, and handling stressful leadership situations. I'm now more mindful of how my colleagues are experiencing me, and less averse to... View Details

27 May 2022
Blog Post

Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023

part about transitioning from the military to a full-time MBA program? There is some loss of identity in leaving the military and not much time to process that change in an intensely busy environment like HBS. Anyone leaving the military... View Details

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

behavior: (1) monitoring the work effectively (giving timely feedback and reacting to problems in the work with understanding and help); (2) providing socioemotional support (showing support for a team member's actions or decisions;... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

2023 Halo Braid Yinka Ogunbiyi (MBA 2023) Business Track & Crowd Favorite Winner We reduce braiding time from hours to minutes, empowering Black salon owners to double or triple their business and addressing the 8 billion hours spent... View Details

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