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- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
to the point of paranoia, and so can organizations—building fortresses so strong they have trouble learning about and relating to customers and investors. Likewise, individuals can become so obsessed with learning that they forget to eat or View Details
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
periods of low trust. Everyone, it turns out, has a wobble. We also all have a driver where we’re rock solid, one that stays strong and steady in our interactions with others, regardless of the circumstances. One of the three trust drivers rarely lets us down, even if...
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by Kristen Senz
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
plenty of water. Omega fatty acids, B and D vitamins, and antioxidants promote mental functioning; sugars and saturated fats impair it. Sleep As one of our wise CEOs noted, “The primary task of leaders is to avoid as many sleepless nights...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
positive when it comes to stress levels, sleeping habits, eating habits, and weight. Advancing employee health has long included efforts to promote physical exercise and healthy eating, but recently has expanded to encompass an emphasis...
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- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
percentage of my sleep right off the top. — So I'm telling you, okay?" So go the first lines to author Allan Gurganus's short story, "Blessed Assurance." As one of the works of literature that HBS MBA students wrestle with...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
competitive challenges facing software companies. Their market success depends largely on persuading the above-mentioned developers to write for their platforms. A new research paper suggests that the two sides can serve their own best interests by meeting with little...
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- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
graduates—descended on the Allston campus for the start of the W50 Summit, two days of reflection, celebration, and brainstorming on women's experiences at HBS and beyond. They heard from panels of professors and alumni on everything from the benefits of...
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by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta, Chicago O'Hare, and Dallas/Fort Worth airports—the airports with the highest number of planned passenger connections—40 percent of all domestic passengers' missed connections and 43 percent of all disruptions to one-stop passengers occurred....
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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of...
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by Garry Emmons
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
sleep and waking up routines. However, there were several factors Nanda had to grapple with before she could commit to final manufacturing design and development. Did she conduct sufficient market research to verify the desire for the...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
addition, unconscious thought might be more dependable than conscious thought when we are low on energy. Preliminary research also indicates that using odor or sound cues during sleep might activate our unconscious mind and improve...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
a string of experiments to test how sleep affects decision making. After all, sleep can do many things—research has shown that a good eight hours of shut-eye can help make people more creative, more...
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- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
mobile devices experience "phantom vibration syndrome," when one's pocket buzzes and there's no phone there.) The second book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work, by Harvard...
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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
asymmetry in message strength in turn permits cutoff equilibria, where players take action after receiving a minimum number of confirmations. Good Morning Creativity: Task Reactivation During Sleep Enhances Beneficial Effect of View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
the Smartphone Addiction Published: May 14, 2012 In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Leslie Perlow explains how high-powered consultants disconnected from their mobile devices for a few hours every week-and how they became...
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by Staff
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
capital—anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000—yet get to scale quickly and build new applications on the Web. Sleeping By The Cell Phone Just as technology is influencing society, society is increasingly making demands on technology, said Sue...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
to lose much sleep over the question. For example, Shadrick Shaili commented “China’s motive is to make the best out of any economy they have an opportunity to trade or deal with so that the benefits manifest in its people at home ... In...
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by James Heskett
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
that enable consumers to self-monitor exercise levels, sleep patterns, and blood pressure have sold briskly. Despite Google Health’s failed effort to facilitate patients’ collecting their medical records electronically in one place, there...
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- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
and consumers will embrace this new mode of payment. Either way, even if Apple stumbles with its mobile wallet, the company will likely survive the reputation hit. "Any failure Apple experiences here will be more than offset by the legions of fans that like their...
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