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- 14 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need
their families. At the same time, those providers had to deal with their own mental health and that of their colleagues. “There was already a high level of burnout before COVID, and not having the means to do anything to ease suffering...
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- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
frustration and a path to burnout that is all too common in today’s workplace, says Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Today’s jobs are expanding in terms of what is...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
team’s idea: Prevent burnout by creating a dialog around the seemingly arbitrary nature of fashion pricing—and the fact that many people judge a garment’s quality based on its price tag. The strategy: Price two identical items next to...
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
work, and perhaps rotating people off and on the team in predetermined intervals. This could both prevent burnout and provide a pipeline of fresh perspectives. Create an agile enterprise from the top down We recommend building agile...
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Forum for Growth
Action Chet Huber 1 Results 25 Nov 2020 What happened to Quibi? Chet Huber Author Quibi was envisioned as a subscription-based short-form video streaming service for smart phones, optimized for consumers "on-the-go". After raising more than a billion dollars to fund...
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- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53335 September 25, 2017 JAMA Internal Medicine The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-Being By: Shanafelt, Tait D., Joel Goh, and Christine A. Sinsky Abstract—Importance: Widespread View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
complex task will contribute to added burnout of middle managers. Cindy McDaniel agrees that middle managers, “now, more importantly than ever before keep their team members connected and engaged.” Germain St-Denis put it more graphically...
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by James Heskett
- Portrait Project
Barr Even
from burnout was a grinding process. I was exhausted, struggling even with once-basic tasks. While slowly rebuilding strength, I realized that I would only fundamentally heal by accepting my limits. A year later, I left my job. The long...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts
so each is justified. But that kind of thinking causes a non-profit to drift from its original goals. It also contributes to the burnout of executives and staff, who feel as though they are working as hard as they can but see few results...
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Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog
after a near failure Avoiding ethical lapses as startups struggle Tactical steps for managing a venture’s shutdown to preserve relationships, reputations, and integrity How to learn from a venture’s failure and what to do with those learnings Addressing founder View Details
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Forum for Growth
and a mere six months of lifespan, Quibi is shutting down. Some have attributed Quibi's burnout to the pandemic, but what would theory have predicted? [...] Read more 08 Sep 2020 Why Voice Is The Next Disruptive Platform Technology Shaye...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
because it allows them to maintain the organizational status quo, say Ely and her coauthors, Florida State University Professor Irene Padavic and Erin M. Reid, associate professor at McMaster University. Confronting the more pervasive problem of employees’ stress,...
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- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
burnout reconnect with what made their jobs meaningful in the past, which can provide guidance for how to restore meaning at work in the present. Developing organizational social rituals and traditions can help create organizational...
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- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
people have burnout and struggle, insomnia, headaches, back pain, some form of leader B might be at play. Secondly, I've seen folks really stall out in their careers where—whether the organization has grown or your role has grown—I've...
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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
to have other people take control over your time. One of the goals of this project is really to talk about what the broader benefits are. I talked to a law firm that was trying to reduce burnout in their senior partners. They had had...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
something completely new. Managers, for example, were concerned about decreases in productivity, despite longstanding research showing that output increases in remote work environments. With this realization, however, many just continued to press forward, leading to...
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- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
financial markets. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55747 February 2019 Annals of Surgery Burnout in Surgery Viewed Through the Lens of Psychological Safety By: Swendiman, Robert A., Amy C. Edmondson, and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
start. Boris Groysberg (@bgroysberg) is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration and co-author of the forthcoming book Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work with Colleen Ammerman. Linda A. Hill: Be sensitive to...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
When Arthur Brooks was interviewing for his job, longtime HBS professor Len Schlesinger asked him, “What can you teach that really only you can teach—and that we need and don’t have?” Brooks responded that he’d been hearing about data on HBS graduates decades after...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
how AI is altering jobs and HR. Joe Fuller: The vital signs of the U.S. healthcare workforce aren’t promising. There are shortages throughout—from doctors, nurses, and clinical assistants to pharmacists and home health aides. Covid-19 drove up the View Details