by HappyQuotient | Nov 23, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. Even after overcoming hurdles to enter the profession, women leave at much higher rates than men, often because of the stress that comes with being female in a male-dominated...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 23, 2018 | HBR
Right now the world is experiencing an epidemic that is projected to get much, much worse. It’s an epidemic of dementia, affecting 40 million people — and millions more of their caregivers — staggering numbers that will likely triple by 2050. Dementia is a progressive...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 22, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Monalyn Gracia/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 22, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images Scan the newspaper headlines, or switch on cable news for a few minutes, and it’s easy to conclude that we are living through harsh, mean, divisive times. But a recent column in the Washington Post reminded me of a truth that is...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 22, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
International megastar Daniel Wu tries a practice that brings him calm amidst the chaos. source https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/podcasts/item/connect_with_body
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Image Source/Getty Images Uber and Netflix have fundamentally shifted consumer behavior and disrupted incumbent firms. In our research, we’re beginning to see signs that Wall Street is being threatened by similar forces. Uber and Netflix’s success were...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Youngme Moon and Felix Oberholzer-Gee decide to “grade” The New York Times’ news coverage, before sharing their quick takes on other random things. They also share their After Hours picks for the week. Download this podcast For interested...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
pchyburrs/Getty Images Health care practitioners have traditionally relied on clinical heuristics to select, encode and process information from the patient. When a patient is presenting with multiple and complex issues, these heuristics reduce the...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Paper Boat Creative/Getty Images The moment a hyped-up new technology garners mainstream attention, many businesses will scramble to incorporate it into their enterprise. The majority of these trends will splutter and die out by Q4. Artificial intelligence (AI) is...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Ricardo Lima/Getty Images Many people believe that being a good manager only requires common sense, and that it is therefore easy to be one. If this were true, good managers would be commonplace at all levels of more organizations, and as a result, employee engagement...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Earlier this year, a pair of researchers discovered a startling fact: Since the 2016 election, Thanksgiving dinners have gotten almost an hour shorter. Why? Because of political differences. In the paper, titled “The Effect of Partisanship and Political Advertising on...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Danae Diaz/Getty Images Benjamin Franklin knew he was smart — smarter than most of his peers — but he was also intelligent enough to understand that he couldn’t be right about everything. That’s why he said that whenever he was about to make an...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Herminia Ibarra, a professor at the London Business School, argues that job transitions — even exciting ones that you’ve chosen — can come with all kinds of unexpected emotions. Going from a job that is known and helped define your identity to a new...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Mark Wilson/Getty Images The ability to collect and exploit consumers’ personal data has long been a source of competitive advantage in the digital economy. It is their control and use of this data that has enabled the likes of Google, Amazon, Alibaba, and...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
clu/Getty Images I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. It was the right thing to do. For one...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
clu/Getty Images I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. It was the right thing to do. For one...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
clu/Getty Images I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. It was the right thing to do. For one...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | HBR
Holiday time is here again! So are the joys and challenges of holiday eating. The big challenge is to have fun at special occasions without jeopardizing some of the healthy practices you have worked on throughout the year. Here are some tips to help you survive the...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
At Edmunds Elementary, a diverse inner-city school in Des Moines, Iowa, yoga is on the daily schedule. Each morning, every classroom begins the day with a “Be Well” discussion about topics such as gratitude, good citizenship, being a peacemaker, and getting enough...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
clu/Getty Images I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. It was the right thing to do. For one...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | HBR
Leaky gut gets blamed for everything from everyday stomach issues to pain to anxiety, yet it is one of the most mysterious ailments to diagnosis and treat. Part of the reason for this medical mystery is because the gut is such a vast and complex system. “Science...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | HBR
Leaky gut gets blamed for everything from everyday stomach issues to pain to anxiety, yet it is one of the most mysterious ailments to diagnosis and treat. Part of the reason for this medical mystery is because the gut is such a vast and complex system. “Science...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
“To be wise you must arrange your experiences on a lattice of models.” — Charlie Munger Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Download the discussion guide for this episode Join our online community Download this podcast It takes time and care to develop trusting...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
“To be wise you must arrange your experiences on a lattice of models.” — Charlie Munger Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Andrew Brookes/Getty Images Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. They’re more productive, more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. Those who...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
JUSTIN TALLIS/Getty Images In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Carol Yepes/Getty Images Sure, everyone wants to be happy. But what kind of happiness do people want? Is it happiness experienced moment-to-moment? Or is it being able to look back and remember a time as happy? Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman described this...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. is a crisis that was created, in part, by healthcare itself as prescriptions for pain-relieving medications rapidly increased in the 2000s. Now, healthcare is at the forefront in trying to fix the problem. At Geisinger, a...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | HBR
Getting your baby to sleep through the night: it’s the milestone all parents of infants long for. It’s understandable, given how precious and elusive a full night’s sleep can be for new parents. The quest for a full night of sleep becomes so important that many a book...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
My son’s preschool teachers have a gratitude practice of singing a sweet “Thank You” song with the children every day. I appreciate when he asks to sing it with me at home because it’s a shared opportunity to grow our gratitude together, even in a brief moment. To...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. is a crisis that was created, in part, by healthcare itself as prescriptions for pain-relieving medications rapidly increased in the 2000s. Now, healthcare is at the forefront in trying to fix the problem. At Geisinger, a...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
My son’s preschool teachers have a gratitude practice of singing a sweet “Thank You” song with the children every day. I appreciate when he asks to sing it with me at home because it’s a shared opportunity to grow our gratitude together, even in a brief moment. To...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. is a crisis that was created, in part, by healthcare itself as prescriptions for pain-relieving medications rapidly increased in the 2000s. Now, healthcare is at the forefront in trying to fix the problem. At Geisinger, a...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MirageC/Getty Images Corporate bribery—that is, the practice of companies paying government officials for preferential treatment—is not only illegal in dozens of countries. Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MirageC/Getty Images Corporate bribery—that is, the practice of companies paying government officials for preferential treatment—is not only illegal in dozens of countries. Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MirageC/Getty Images Corporate bribery—that is, the practice of companies paying government officials for preferential treatment—is not only illegal in dozens of countries. Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Daniel Viñé Garcia/Getty Images While on an investor tour in Europe, I ended a busy day by joining my boss at a nice restaurant. After he said something funny, I responded in my typical style — throwing back my head and letting out hearty,...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
John Rizzo/Getty Images Discounts and promotions are at an all-time high, often comprising the single-biggest cost within many retailers’ P&Ls. Yet despite these high stakes, and the growing adoption of sophisticated analytics, many retailers continue to...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | HBR
When you think of menopause, you might think of hot flashes and night sweats. But many women also experience symptoms of depression. The risk of depression doubles or even quadruples during the menopausal transition, which has researchers looking for ways to address —...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Earlier this year, Tiffany Field, head of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, traveled to different airports in Florida to watch people interacting. A researcher who has studied touch for more than four decades, Field...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
IAN HOOTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images You walk down the hall, head spinning — unsure of how to stabilize yourself. You went into your one-on-one thinking you had clarity on your current priorities. You just left it wondering how in the world you would...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | HBR
When you think of menopause, you might think of hot flashes and night sweats. But many women also experience symptoms of depression. The risk of depression doubles or even quadruples during the menopausal transition, which has researchers looking for ways to address —...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | HBR
When you think of menopause, you might think of hot flashes and night sweats. But many women also experience symptoms of depression. The risk of depression doubles or even quadruples during the menopausal transition, which has researchers looking for ways to address —...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Is your teamwork not working? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard Business School and the author of The Fearless Organization:...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
In a recent article, The Guardian newspaper called for the National Health Service to turn to universities as a key resource, arguing that the research ecosystem in the UK is fragmented and more partnerships that align expertise with the goal of improving public...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
PM Images/Getty Images A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Andrea Comi/Getty Images Employees around the world yearn for freedom and flexibility. The most common form of flexibility that companies offer is the ability to work remote. In a new study by my firm and Virgin Pulse, we found that a third of employees globally work...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Eduardo da Costa/Getty Images Maybe you fell head over heels. Maybe your feelings grew over time. All you know is that you have what everyone is looking for, but few seem to get: A job you love. And you are about to leave it. How do you even start explaining? The work...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | HBR
For generations, midwives and doctors have looked for ways to imitate human physiology and nudge women’s bodies into giving birth. Synthetic hormones can be used to start and speed up labor. Soft balloons and seaweed sticks placed alongside the cervix can shape a...
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