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- 21 Aug 2019
- News
Analyzing Homelessness
responded to a homelessness activist’s challenge by volunteering in shelters and listening to residents’ and administrators’ stories. Along with crime, poverty, domestic abuse, and PTSD, Shumway says homelessness has roots in “widespread View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
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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- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
start.” Taking care of your physical and mental health while launching a company is just harder, said Garg, who advised founders to get the support of an executive coach or therapist if they can. Saigal...
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Margie Kelley
- 11 Jun 2014
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The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I work with clients in the View Details
- 12 May 2016
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Food Rescue Is on a Mission
fill their own cars with fruits, vegetables, meat, and bread from Coles or other supermarkets and drive to their churches, where they cook a meal for neighbors in need. “A lot of the people in shelters have had mental illness and...
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Jill Radsken
- 10 Mar 2021
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Chasing the Silver Tsunami
do with engaging, and that’s what excites and delights our members,” she says. After earning her MBA, she worked as an executive in the senior-housing industry, which included oversight of a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a health care...
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- 02 Aug 2011
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A Fearless Force for Change
sense of empowerment and spiritual well-being in the minibattles that were fought and won on the "hills" at the gym's spinning studio. Finding that personal source of support and inspiration was essential for Linn's mental and physical...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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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
- News
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
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Brain cancer is almost always fatal. There are no cures for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or ALS. And mental health remains a global burden.” Worse yet, despite all of medical...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
shot our first fitness video, have been presenting at major health and fitness conferences and events nationwide, and launched an interactive, multimedia learning-management portal for our instructor community." How is your company and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to address new medical research into football's deleterious View Details
- 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
- News
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
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
opportunity. An organization cannot be a meritocracy when the small number of black employees spend a significant percentage of their mental bandwidth wondering, “Why aren’t there more people like me? Am I being treated differently?”...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
dealing with a health problem or marital problem, they might have a slumped posture or something like that. But it's really hard to read the room now. So there's a lot of changes in communication now that we're in the Zoom era. One of the...
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- 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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- 28 Apr 2022
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Finding Her Place
relate his adventures in Southern California. It was a long time before the family learned that Billy, who had mental health issues, was living on the streets of Pasadena. Hudson recalls not even knowing...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Ink
experiences, situations, and learning will keep us more mentally sharp and physically fit than a routine without these. Wendy and I wanted to work hard for a cause, but we also wanted to take advantage of our situation and take in all...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
few pennies to that dollar. Lack of social supports, such as child care and paid sick leave, is another ever-present issue the pandemic laid bare. It could explain why some women have elected to leave the workforce altogether: “Women have hit a View Details