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- 01 Mar 2023
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Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging...
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- 02 Sep 2022
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Strength in Numbers
Mark Verdi, Jan Swartz, and Rob Swartz Jan and Rob Swartz and Mark Verdi (all MBA 1996) and Mark’s wife, Gina, have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed approach toward the treatment of mental illness. “It’s fragmented and fractured,”...
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- 31 May 2018
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Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
was stunning. It was all new to her—she’d never known anyone who’d had an eating disorder, and hadn’t thought much about it before. It just wasn’t on her radar. But as she’d discover, eating disorders are a pervasive form of mental...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Katherine Switz (MBA 2000)
times, whatever they are—and in my case they are driven by mental illness—it makes you a deeper individual. You experience life more richly. Every day that I’m healthy I am incredibly grateful. + ONLINE web-only content Switz talks about...
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- 25 Feb 2021
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Building Hope
advocate for alternative mental health therapies, including the use of psychedelics. In recent years, that has included exploring the use of ketamine as a treatment for depression, through the creation of...
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Daniel Morrell
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
to community needs due to the pandemic. —Taru Kapoor (MBA 2015) general manager, Tinder & Match Group. To address the pandemic-induced mental health crisis among its millions of young users, Tinder partnered...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
health and medical advances, says Johnston, "there are huge possibilities for new products and services [see sidebars], but business needs to change its mentality about aging. With innovation will come...
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
evidence has shown that social behavior—including helping others—improves our mental and physical health and extends life expectancy. One study on mortality following 7,000 people found that the risk of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
abilities are often delayed, and through counseling programs, through mental health services, we address those issues. We work not only to fix schools but also to break the cycle of intergenerational...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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A Casual Approach to Success
down-to-earth mentality is also apparent in Hellman’s athletic endeavors. He grew up riding horses and later played varsity water polo at the University of California, Berkeley. Often attributing his athletic achievements to an ability to...
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Susan Young
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
moving along, getting ‘back to normal,’” says Pasricha. “That approach sweeps most deeper human emotions under the rug. Loneliness, anxiety, and mental health challenges are spiking. There is a lot of...
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Margie Kelley
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
playing soccer and basketball. Sort of the mental damage that you have to suffer from that is—and I can only speak on his behalf, not for him, from his perspective—must be huge. I know it was huge for my family, and for him it must be all...
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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
sessions for health care professionals in Egypt, Italy, and Spain? RA: In Egypt, our so-called “White Army” of doctors and nurses has come under severe strain given the surge in the number of COVID patients. We recently launched a...
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- 09 Apr 2020
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“Raise the Line”
surveying our audience and asking them what they need. One topic that has come up is maintaining mental health during the pandemic, so we have content for that, too. HBS: How did Osmosis prepare for...
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- 30 Aug 2021
- News
One and the Same
working for McKinsey in London and New York; most recently, she served as MP for the Victorian Parliament from 2006 to 2020, in addition to roles as Victoria’s Minister for Mental Health and Community...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
caregiver that is so important to patient-centered care. Compassionate Management of Mental Health in the Modern Workplace by John A. Quelch (DBA 1977) and Carin-Isabel Knoop (MBA 1994) Springer This guide...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown
business idea, ThinKloud, a mental health tool that provides anonymous peer-to-peer support group services, from concept to customer in one day, fueled, as most startups are, by coffee, sugar, and...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
collaborated with doctors and college students to produce information on sexual and mental health topics that was both accurate and interesting to young women. But as the Confi team talked with students...
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- 01 Apr 2020
- News
Happy Because He’s Blind
forward,” he recently told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. At a month-long training program with a seeing-eye dog, Foster met others with multiple challenges: in addition to being blind, some had mental impairments, kidney failure, and...
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