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Impact Stories - Impact Stories
Burnout? Re: Susanna Gallani Play Health Minute: Thinking Outside the Building Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter 04 Aug 2024 Ten Percent Happier with Dan Harris How Turning Habits Into Rituals Can Help You At Home, At Work, And When You’re... View Details
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
Second Half of Life, as well as the forthcoming Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, coauthored with Oprah Winfrey. Hise Gibson: Leadership and habit formation My summer reading list comprises books that cater... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
consumer needs and habits will also affect restaurant usage. Restaurants located in or near office complexes suffered as office occupancy reduced, and will continue to feel the negative impact. Consumers heading to offices may have now... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Complete Table of Contents February 1998 Running Up the Score Growth and Turmoil in the Business of Sports Women at the Top Leaders gain—and demonstrate—strength at new HBS Exec Ed program C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe Stephen Covey's... View Details
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
Learning to create an effective network, improve your interpersonal skills, access new information, and connect with important organizational stakeholders in this self-guided course. Resume Maintenance Make it a habit to document your... View Details
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Current Research
Ian studies extrinsic rewards -- monetary incentives from formal compensation systems, as well as other formal and informal external rewards-- in order to help businesses understand the tensions and tradeoffs inherent in motivating employees. His research takes a... View Details
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
problem? That’s exactly what Thomke is hoping more business leaders will do: look inward and carefully reexamine whether their everyday work habits are boosting progress or impeding it. They should start by asking themselves a few key... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
and slavery, which is quite unusual for someone at this stage. And my father only had a third grade education and what passed for third grade education for an African American child in South Carolina, between 1906 to 1909. But he was self-taught. He had immaculate... View Details
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Overview
Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
likely to call on colleagues than were male and younger managers. Sharing the spotlight pays off The willingness to engage colleagues in the boardroom appears to also pay dividends in the stock market. Firms with CEOs who made a habit of... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
generalize," Avery says. But that misses the point. Rather than helping researchers estimate the habits of ordinary consumers, the data from extreme customers can uncover new consumer motivations, promoting different ways of looking at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), the recently retired president of the University of North Carolina, has made a lifelong habit of answering what he terms "life's cold calls of responsibility." To a gathering of graduating HBS... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
traffic controller and the first officer; everybody’s perspective was brought in. He considered many alternatives when most of us would have focused on the obvious one. He had this beautiful habit of mind that every time he walked into... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Campbell , Carolin Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira JUN 2015 Campbell, Pflueger, and Viceira develop a macroeconomic model of habit formation that explains both bond and stock returns. They argue that the risk premia associated with bonds... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
about her research. The topic of her presentation: the mistake we often make in chasing a higher paycheck at the expense of quality time with loved ones. Video: Working too much? Break some bad habits View Video “I started talking to this... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS
I started believing that entrepreneurship might be the path for me. After graduating, I joined up with Tim to build and launch ZipBooks—modern accounting software for small businesses. While Tim and I haven’t built a lunch-time soccer league at ZipBooks (yet), we have... View Details
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V.G. Narayanan | About
can use incentives and performance feedback to improve performance. VG is studying how financial incentives can be used as a catalyst to form desirable habits and to harness other motivators such as peer pressure and frequent feedback.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Taste of Tradition
clan's empire. A company "creed" adopted in 1926 formalizes many of the traditions and habits long observed by the families. Among the ideals it articulates are peaceful behavior, faith, mutual respect, and discipline. A company "creed"... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
yourself and your organization into innovative powerhouses. Faculty Books The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions By Michael Norton, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details