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- April 29, 2024
- Editorial
Stemming the Ripple Effect of Untreated Mental Illness: A Prescription for Change: Reimagining U.S. Healthcare
By: Lidia Moura and Susanna Gallani
Moura, Lidia, and Susanna Gallani. "Stemming the Ripple Effect of Untreated Mental Illness: A Prescription for Change: Reimagining U.S. Healthcare." Psychology Today (website) (April 29, 2024).
- November, 2021
- Article
Self Control and Smartphone Use: An Experimental Study of Soft Commitment Devices
By: Ruru Hoong
Public discussion and discourse amongst researchers suggest that smartphone use is excessive from an individual welfare standpoint, but evidence for this remains limited. I implement a randomized intervention encouraging a subset of 629 participants to adopt soft...
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Keywords:
Social Media;
Commitment;
Randomized Controlled Trial;
Smartphones;
Addiction;
Technological Change: Choices And Consequences;
Behavior;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Well-being
Hoong, Ruru. "Self Control and Smartphone Use: An Experimental Study of Soft Commitment Devices." Special Issue on Nudges and Incentives. European Economic Review 140 (November, 2021).
- January 25, 2021
- Blog Post
Lower Income Translates to Fewer Happy Experiences—Here Is How We Can Fix It
By: Jon M. Jachimowicz and Adam Eric Greenberg
Can money actually buy happiness? Research shows that having more money makes people evaluate their lives more favorably (what researchers call “life satisfaction”). Surprising as it may seem, whether money leads to greater life satisfaction because it makes people...
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Jachimowicz, Jon M., and Adam Eric Greenberg. "Lower Income Translates to Fewer Happy Experiences—Here Is How We Can Fix It." Character & Context (January 25, 2021). https://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/jachimowicz-greenberg-wealth-happiness-inequalities.
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Service Leadership Fellows
Senior Associate Dean and MBA Program chair W. Carl Kester said that he hopes the program will further the School's mission of contributing to the well-being of society. “We want our graduates not simply to be managers of competence but...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
values: being patient, kind, humble, respectful, selfless, forgiving, honest, committed, and putting the welfare and well-being of our guests and employees first. I was paired with employees whom I had never met face-to-face. Each had a...
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- 2018
- Article
Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time
By: A. V. Whillans, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Michael I. Norton
Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people often fail to spend their money in this way. Because most people believe that the future will be less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact...
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Keywords:
Consumer Choice;
Sharing Economy;
Opportunity Cost;
Time-as Money;
Well-being;
Time Management;
Happiness;
Perception;
Behavior
Whillans, A. V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton. "Overcoming Barriers to Time-Saving: Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time." Social Influence 13, no. 2 (2018): 117–124.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one’s body in expansive, “high-power” poses for as little as two minutes can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being...
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- October 2023
- Background Note
What Leaders Need to Know about Mental Health
By: Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, Liana Groysberg, Natalia Groysberg and Abhijit Naik
This paper will provide an overview of the nature of anxiety and depression, the particular vulnerabilities and stresses of CEOs, and suggestions for managing mental health in the workplace.
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Groysberg, Boris, Robin Abrahams, Liana Groysberg, Natalia Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik. "What Leaders Need to Know about Mental Health." Harvard Business School Background Note 424-032, October 2023.
- 2017
- Article
True Happiness: The Role of Morality in the Concept of Happiness
By: Jonathan Phillips, Julian De Freitas, Christian Mott, June Gruber and Joshua Knobe
Recent scientific research has settled on a purely descriptive definition of happiness that is focused solely on agents' psychological states (high positive affect, low negative affect, high life satisfaction). In contrast to this understanding, recent research has...
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Phillips, Jonathan, Julian De Freitas, Christian Mott, June Gruber, and Joshua Knobe. "True Happiness: The Role of Morality in the Concept of Happiness." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 146, no. 2 (2017): 165–181.
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home Sweet Home
those communities. “This is not just a matter of social equity,” Terwilliger stated. “The shortage of workforce housing is compromising the economic well-being of our cities.” And for the residents of exclusive areas such as Hilton Head,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Recasting environmentalism as a smart financial investment
Conservancy (TNC), the world’s largest environmental organization. He is leading TNC as it changes society’s mindset around the importance of healthy natural systems and demonstrates nature’s value as the foundation of our well-being and...
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- Portrait Project
Sue Yang
of cities, large and small. On societies and on individuals. On personal well-being as much as on business and politics. I see them precipitating our generation's toughest problems, but also demonstrating the most viable solutions. And I...
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- Portrait Project
Scott St. Germain
great self-gratification from what they do and be excited and proud about their professions. I will strive to improve industries and companies that are themselves examples by developing products that bring great satisfaction to, improve the View Details
- Article
Paradise Lost (and Restored?): A Study of Psychological Safety over Time
By: Derrick P. Bransby, Michaela Kerrissey and Amy C. Edmondson
Although prior research indicates that psychological safety can fluctuate, questions about when and why remain. To gain insights into the emergence and temporal dynamics of psychological safety, we explored longitudinal data representing more than 10,000 health care...
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Keywords:
Analytics and Data Science;
Research;
Attitudes;
Working Conditions;
Well-being;
Health Industry
Bransby, Derrick P., Michaela Kerrissey, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Paradise Lost (and Restored?): A Study of Psychological Safety over Time." Academy of Management Discoveries (in press). (Pre-published online March 14, 2024.)
- 13 Feb 2023
- News
Alumnus Gift Will Nurture Basic, Therapeutic Science
following completion of the atrium's construction. "Harvard Medical School is a world leader in health care innovation, translational research, and cutting-edge discovery, and it continues to have an immense impact on the health and View Details
- 2022
- Article
Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment
By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of...
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Keywords:
Time;
Subjective Well Being;
Administrative Costs;
Friction;
Poverty;
Well-being;
Money;
Perception;
Kenya
Whillans, A.V., and Colin West. "Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment." Art. 719. Scientific Reports 12 (2022).
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Two in five Americans have medical debt, nearly half of whom owe at least $2,500. Concerned by this burden, governments and private donors have undertaken large, high-profile efforts to relieve medical debt. We partnered with RIP Medical Debt to conduct two randomized...
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Kluender, Raymond, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. "The Effects of Medical Debt Relief: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32315, April 2024.
- March 8, 2022
- Article
Women Can’t Go Back to the Pre-Pandemic Status Quo
By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Survey data collected in 2018 and 2019 from Harvard Business School graduates revealed that for women—and especially women of color—well-being at work was suffering long before the pandemic. While 17% of all respondents said that they often or very often experienced...
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Ammerman, Colleen, and Boris Groysberg. "Women Can’t Go Back to the Pre-Pandemic Status Quo." Harvard Business Review (website) (March 8, 2022).
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
well-being of society’s less fortunate members. He told his audience that they were all winners in the “ovarian lottery,” that by accident of birth, they had entered and grown up in the world with enormous advantages over the planet’s six...
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- 22 Jan 2019
- News
Remembering Walter Shipley
endorsing employee well-being and diversity long before those topics became fashionable. Beginning in 1996, the Financial Times reports, he asked business units to submit plans on diversity, including the advancement of women. When...
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