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19 Jan 2023
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11 Ways to Reengage Employees in the New Year

team members individually to talk about their professional and personal development goals. With more information about their team, managers can deepen interpersonal connections and recommend specific conferences, projects, courses, and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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A Multicountry Perspective on Gender Differences in Time Use During COVID-19

By: Laura M. Giurge, Ashley V. Whillans and Ayse Yemiscigil (shared authorship)

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally altered how people spend time, with possible consequences for subjective well-being. Using diverse samples of remote workers from the United States, Canada, Denmark, Brazil, and Spain (n = 31,141), following a preregistered... View Details

Keywords: Time; Subjective Well-being; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Gender; Time Management; Well-being; Work-Life Balance; Global Range

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01 Jun 2020
News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

when we get out of this, laying that groundwork for safety reasons today will pay dividends tomorrow in terms of fan engagement. This fluid fan wants to have that personalized experience in the venue. They want you to know what kind of... View Details

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

early perestroika days when real estate developers could command six years of rent upfront before the building was even built have been reduced to six months. Unlevered going-in returns of 30 percent on costs are now 14 percent or less.... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

01 Oct 1998
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Short Takes

and not 12- to 17-year-olds, the study clearly shows that cigarette advertising is significantly related to youth, but not young adult, readership. King and his colleagues conclude that the study can be used as an important tool in the public View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

10 Nov 2020
News

Learning to Fight

faculty member at Harvard Medical School when he received the grant. “The Sontag Foundation was pivotal in helping me design and sustain a research career,” says Johnson, who is now chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery at UMass Memorial View Details

Keywords: April White

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Work & Life - Race, Gender & Equity

at home [1] 51 Women with children under 18 at home 54 Men with no children at home 54 Men with children under 18 at home Top 5 Industries Hours/Week Women Men Consulting / Professional Services 52 55 Educational Services / Academics 49 53 Finance / Banking /... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Keeping the Beat

lyrics like, “I’ve been holding out strong from a past life, I’m holding out strong it’s gonna be alright.” These are lyrics that are 100 percent inspired by this time of waiting, this time of uncertainty, this time of actually being able to go deeper into your own... View Details

Keywords: Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

January 2022 (Revised August 2022)
Case

Hello Heart: The Next Generation of Chronic Disease Management Apps

By: Ariel D. Stern and Danielle Golan

Hello Heart, a hypertension management app debated whether to go deep and cover other heart conditions, or to expand its solution to other chronic conditions. View Details

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19 Nov 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

characters, and through these emotions the characters live inside us, sometimes just for the length of time it takes to read and discuss their story, but often for much, much longer. That means that the lessons we take from the stories become part of us, a very deep... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

21 Jan 2014
News

Climbing to New Heights

of Nepal, who are some of the poorest in the world. CAN was founded by Doug Scott, who in 1975 made the first British ascent of Everest. Petzel met Scott at a Royal Geographic Society event and was inspired to assist the cause. For several years, he made View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Dec 2009
News

Robert Goodwin

Goodwin Illustration by Jack Unruh Over the past two decades, Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007) has made a career of getting involved in complex and intractable global crises, from helping to rebuild the Iraqi Ministry of Health to directing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services; Personal Services

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GDPR & Other Data Privacy Laws | Information Technology

affected individuals, taking into account the scope and purposes of such processing and the nature of the data. The GDPR identifies the following categories of data as meriting special protection: identifiable personal information... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

to replicate office culture in the digital world, and the movement’s wider implications for how and where we organize ourselves. Prashanth, you said in a March announcement about Stack Overflow going all-remote that the most important factor was the View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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Domestic Students | MBA

Permanent Residents. They carry a fixed interest rate, and the annual loan limit is based on cost of attendance minus other financial aid received. Many students request a Stafford Loan first, because it usually carries a lower interest... View Details

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. Objective: To determine whether... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

home energy use, residential buildings tend to be more efficient with energy use. So some of those changes might result in longer term reductions and certainly will buy us some time to implement better policies potentially as part of the recovery. Jen Flint: And what... View Details

24 Sep 2019
News

Connecting Patients and Providers

prospective patients. Patients can upload their data just once and share it with any doctor on the platform who needs access. Trustedoctor also encourages digital consultations, reducing the cost and travel demands on ill patients. The... View Details

15 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

2017 Washington, DC: American Public Health Association Public Health Preparedness: Case Studies in Policy and Management By: Howitt, Arnold M., Dutch Leonard, and David W. Giles, eds. Abstract—This book... View Details