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- 18 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
had to communicate your schedule well in advance, now everyone has shared calendars. If you don’t, this is the time to start so colleagues can have insight into each other’s days,” says Stephan. Technology tools like shared calendars,...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
governed by one or the other of these regimes, and Jensen suggests that time is split between them in about a 50:50 ratio. The switch into the PAM regime occurs when we are frightened -- which can happen without our even knowing it. The...
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Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
really stressful time in my life.I know what you might be thinking. Full scholarship offers and lots of people showering you with attention? I would’ve killed to be in that situation. You’re absolutely right...
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- 27 Mar 2020
- News
CPD Taps Alumni Network to Help Students Navigate Crisis
Fortunately, existing post-graduation job offers for second-year students haven’t been affected yet, but many Class of 2020 members are still looking for jobs, and about 500 first-year students are still searching for internships. In response, CPD has View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Beating Pain with Brain Power
in Palo Alto, California. There was this very scared young Vietnam veteran whom one could even get on the table. That’s when I saw the first time how a quick hypnotic intervention could make a difference. “I built a research program...
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- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
list of the costs of the “conveyor belt to college”: high dropout rates, increased stress levels, and massive debt. Her suggested fix? The bridge year—a key facet of Falik’s Global Citizen Year, which offers graduating high school...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
raised to succeed on our own and rewarded for that. Taking time off—and worse yet, asking for help to make that possible—often is seen as a sign of weakness. So people get stressed out when the goal requires...
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- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream Series: Marty
why the policy was created, what he would do differently if designing one from scratch, and his recipe for a successful sabbatical. In 2000, Summit was seeing stress among its employees, especially in its partners. Summit’s sabbatical...
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- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
guidance is needed or to make introductions to customers, prospective partners, or job candidates. Advisers may also mentor junior members of a team when you lack the funds or time to hire in an experienced leader. Advisers are usually...
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by Julia B. Austin
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
was a source of stress for the system's stability. Today, banks are better capitalized, rely less on short-term wholesale funding, and make available much more detailed information about their portfolios, while the amount of "shadow...
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- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
time between the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and the United States, both stress that attending OPM improved their businesses as well as their personal lives. “HBS enriched us tremendously,” says Hesham....
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
organization. Stressing that such trust requires much more than personal credibility, they provide self-assessment exercises that show executives where they currently stand as trusted leaders and where they could stand. Downturns,...
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- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
key to be both patient and passionate. You’ll send out a lot of emails and have a lot of coffee chats. As long as you really do your homework for every conversation, know the company, and bang on the door as many times as you need to – it...
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- 09 Nov 2016
- News
The Seeds of Learning
“I think that kids these days are spending way too much time taking tests and doing rote memorization when they need to be outside and learning from experience. It reduces stress and improves behavior; it...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
pharmaceuticals, the gap between the medical and the mental health systems, and the time required to find community resources and quality home care. My previous experience as a pharmaceutical executive and management consultant seemed...
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- 12 Feb 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students
In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
ease of use by instructors, and even useability in an age of “fake facts.” The most negative views came from those experiencing problems arising largely from the way cases were being taught or used. Those utilizing the method in their teaching View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
Human Performance Lab will incorporate new insights into wearable digital sensors. At the Female Athlete Program, Boston Children’s Hospital, this approach has already led researchers to recommend reassessing guidelines for women who experience View Details
- 20 Oct 2014
- Blog Post
Create Buzzworthy Industry Education Events at HBS
of recruiting. We want you to succeed in your presentations, and have students walk away both smarter and psyched about your firm and sector because they invested their time to attend. Here are our four keys to that kingdom of an...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
gender and racial barriers (“crashing through the glass ceiling and the ‘concrete wall,'” as the New York Times put it) when she was named president of Maxwell House in 1994. Three years later, she became president of Kraft Foods' $5...
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