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- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
in this setting. Our research offers a behavioral perspective on queue management and highlights that discretion may have unintended negative costs. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50023 Harvard Business School Case 516-092 The...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what...
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Reclaim Your Commute: Getting To and From Work Doesn't Have to be Soul Crushing
By: Francesca Gino, Bradley Staats, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Julia J. Lee and Jochen I. Menges
Every day, millions of people around the world face long commutes to work. In the United States alone, approximately 25 million workers spend more than 90 minutes each day getting to and from their jobs. And yet few people enjoy their commutes. This distaste for...
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Gino, Francesca, Bradley Staats, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Julia J. Lee, and Jochen I. Menges. "Reclaim Your Commute: Getting To and From Work Doesn't Have to be Soul Crushing." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 3 (May–June 2017): 149–153.
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Emotion Regulation in Daily Life By: Lameese Eldesouky, Amit Goldenberg and Kate Ellis There is a growing understanding that emotion regulation (ER) abilities can be an important buffer for loneliness. However, most of this research is...
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- 24 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It
have to be this way? How could we make it better?" You Might Also Like: When Your Passion Works Against You More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
and introspection because many people get into leadership roles in response to their ego needs. It enables them to transition from seeking external gratification to finding internal satisfaction by making meaningful contributions through...
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by Bill George
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Swaps (1) Credit (8) Crime and Corruption (40) Crisis Management (49) Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues (23) Culture (7) Currency Exchange Rate (3) Currency (12) Curriculum and Courses (2) Customer Focus and Relationships (39) Customer Relationship Management (13)...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Happier-ness at Work
Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write....
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- 2018
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Status Inconsistency: Variance in One's Status Across Groups Harms Well-being but Improves Perspective-taking
By: Catarina Fernandes and Alison Wood Brooks
Most people belong to many different groups. While some people experience consistently high or low status across all of their groups, others experience wildly different levels of status in each group. In this research, we examine how status inconsistency – the degree...
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- 08 Sep 2022
- Book
Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?
online-security software firm OneTrust into an industry leader, so he changed how he lives. Now, he meditates daily and practices self-forgiveness. He says living a more grounded, balanced, and integrated life has made him a better...
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by Lane Lambert
- 01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty
meager supply of life jackets, neglecting to keep one for herself. When the boat sank, she used her skills as a former lifeguard to save people in the shark-infested waters, but hundreds of others drowned. Fashioning a flotation device...
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Susan Young
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
would you want your children to be these people? Defining your own yardstick for success can often be quite difficult, according to Stevenson. "A ton of books on success all say, 'Choose your target and shoot at it,'" he said. The books never mention other...
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by Martha Lagace
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Past Issues - Alumni
the non-alcoholic drink shelf is the new life of the party Step Change When she came back to Egypt five years ago, investor Amal Enan embraced the chaos—and found a path to impact her country’s future Complete Table of Contents December...
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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
and Nohria examine how an organization built around the four-drive theory might look. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of work. With it, life...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office
you have for students grappling with this choice? My first piece of advice is to work with a CPD career coach to gain clarity on your career and life criteria. What are the tasks that you want to be doing on a day-to-day basis that will...
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- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
Company based in Boston, Glassman (HBS MBA '69) said issues such as homelessness, women's rights and outreach to the gay and lesbian community have shaped his own life and the life of his business. Seven...
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- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
opportunities and jobs, their life satisfaction has steadily declined, the paper notes. That might be due at least in part to women working during the day, then having to return home to the “second shift” of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
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2021 Virtual Presentations - Alumni
will lead a discussion about this apparent paradox and its implications, with a focus on credit markets, Asia/China, and life sciences. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with a panel of alumni active in investment...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
years, but only recently have they truly come together. “My life is finally aligned,” says Raiford with a warm smile and easy laugh. After a successful career in finance — including twenty years at Citibank — he is now using his business...
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- 01 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
the new call agents completed an exercise ranking the individual strengths they would exhibit if stranded on a life raft at sea; they also spent time considering how their responses might differ from their colleagues'. Then, the agents...
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