by HappyQuotient | Aug 17, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
VANDAL Photography/Getty Images Tara, an MD/PhD who works for a large public university, contacted one of us (Suzanne) a few weeks after participating in a negotiation workshop she ran, wanting to share some positive news about successfully negotiating an 11% pay...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 17, 2018 | HBR
The summer season is waning but we’re not done with the heat. Hot and humid weather can bring a host of heat-related problems: heat cramps, heat rash, heat exhaustion, heat stroke…. It’s helpful to be aware of these issues, especially as we experience changes in the...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 16, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Aug 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Caspar Benson/Getty Images Most leaders assume that they need to foster teamwork among the people whom directly and indirectly report to them. Teaming is now seen as the workplace equivalent of motherhood and apple pie — invariably good. The problem is when...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Daniel Hurst Photography/Getty Images As the concept of emotional intelligence has gone global, we’ve watched professionals founder as they try to improve their emotional intelligence (or EI) because they either don’t know where to focus their efforts or...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 16, 2018 | HBR
Parents of adolescents face a tough dilemma about substance use: we may want our children to be abstinent, but what do we do if they are not? The risks are high, as we’ve discussed in our blog about adolescent substance use and the developing brain. While parents can...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Daniel Hurst Photography/Getty Images As the concept of emotional intelligence has gone global, we’ve watched professionals founder as they try to improve their emotional intelligence (or EI) because they either don’t know where to focus their efforts or...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 16, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Maybe it’s happened to you with a stranger at a party, or with a casual acquaintance at work. If you’re really lucky, it’s happened to you during a job interview, or within minutes of meeting the roommates your college assigned you. You clicked with them. It can...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 15, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Aug 15, 2018 | HBR
Can you imagine if you went to your primary care doctor’s office for cooking classes? What if your visit included time spent planning meals, discussing grocery lists and the benefits of home cooking, and learning culinary techniques? If that sounds odd to you, it...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Carlo Allegri/Getty Images Working from home can be a coveted perk, allowing you to opt out of rush-hour traffic and eliminate the tedious banalities of office life. But it can also cut you off from the spontaneous interactions that can spark new insights (part of the...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
burakpekakcan/Getty Images Modern data science emerged in tech, from optimizing Google search rankings and LinkedIn recommendations to influencing the headlines Buzzfeed editors run. But it’s poised to transform all sectors, from retail, telecommunications,...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Harry Haysom/Getty Images Professional careers are notorious for demanding that people be single-mindedly devoted to work. It’s a demand that is often especially acute for men, who face rigid expectations that being a successful man requires having a successful...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Harry Haysom/Getty Images Professional careers are notorious for demanding that people be single-mindedly devoted to work. It’s a demand that is often especially acute for men, who face rigid expectations that being a successful man requires having a successful...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Eric Raptosh/Getty Images Common wisdom in management science and practice has it that to build support for a change project, visionary leadership is needed to outline what is wrong with the current situation. By explaining how the envisioned change will result in a...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 15, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
You might know Abby Wambach as one of the most celebrated soccer players in the world, a World Cup winner and Olympic gold medalist. But in a commencement speech earlier this year to the “bad-ass women” of Barnard College’s class of 2018, she hinted at a phenomenon...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
David Burkus, a professor at Oral Roberts University and author of the book Friend of a Friend, explains common misconceptions about networking. First, trading business cards at a networking event doesn’t mean you’re a phony. Second, your most valuable...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | HBR
While summer offers preschool and elementary school children a welcome break and chances to navigate new friendships and activities, it can trigger anxiety in children upset by unstructured time, changes in routine and friend groups, and transitions involving new...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
pbombaert/Getty Images Are you successful at coaching your employees? In our years studying and working with companies on this topic, we’ve observed that when many executives say “yes,” they’re incorrectly answering the question. Why? For one,...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Paul Taylor/Getty Images The big question around self-driving cars, for many people, is: When will the technology be ready? In other words, when will autonomous vehicles be safe enough to operate on their own? But there has been far less attention paid to two equally...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Sometimes, compassion can seem like it’s in short supply. But there are ways to increase the amount of compassion in the world—and inside of ourselves. Researchers consider compassion to be a skill that can be sharpened, similar to a muscle that can be strengthened...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Kathryn Hume, VP of integrate.ai, discusses the current boundaries between artificially intelligent machines, and humans. While the power of A.I. can conjure up some of our darkest fears, she says the reality is that there is still a whole lot that A.I. can’t...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Paper Boat Creative/Getty Images Many leading American digital firms, including Google, Amazon, eBay, and Uber, have successfully expanded internationally by introducing their products, services, and platforms in other countries. However, they have all failed in...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
jakob owens/unsplash Netflix has a lot to gain by becoming a multisided platform. Currently, Netflix is in the business of buying or making content, which it sells consumers access to at prices and on terms it fully controls (a monthly subscription)....
by HappyQuotient | Aug 14, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Sometimes, compassion can seem like it’s in short supply. But there are ways to increase the amount of compassion in the world—and inside of ourselves. Researchers consider compassion to be a skill that can be sharpened, similar to a muscle that can be strengthened...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 13, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Aug 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images There’s an unassuming restaurant in Dallas called Chop House Burger, home to handspun milkshakes, truffle parmesan french fries, and six innovative burgers. It’s an eight-year-old restaurant in an industry where 80% of new...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 13, 2018 | HBR
For many, choosing a healthy diet is all about sacrifice: foregoing the appetizers, cutting back on carbs or saturated fat, giving up dessert. But what if there was something you really liked that turned out to be good for you? No, I’m not talking about chocolate...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Doug Perrine/Nature Picture Library/Getty Images There are lots of compelling reasons to build a better team. Great teams deliver stronger results, faster. They’re more innovative. They challenge you to learn more quickly and to be at your best. And,...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Tintan/Getty Images Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and computer technology are causing us to think again about some really basic questions: what is a firm? What can firms do better than markets? And what are the distinctive qualities of...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 13, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
For some students, school is not just a place of learning and growth but also a refuge from abuse. Data suggest that, on average, every classroom has at least one student affected by trauma. According to the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, close to 40 percent...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Martin Barraud/Getty Images China’s two retailing powerhouses, online commerce pioneer Alibaba and social media-gaming pioneer Tencent, have systematically established a duopoly of record proportions in record time. Combined, they have spent more than $20...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
sandy millar/Getty Images When I gave birth to my daughter over a year ago, I worked for an employer that provides no paid parental leave: the U.S. government. I was able to cobble together vacation and sick time with unpaid leave for four months. But I did not feel...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 12, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Aug 11, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Aug 10, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Aug 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
mark ralston/Getty Images The United States is no stranger to self-improvement, from the meditation and essential oils of the 60s to the Jane Fonda aerobics tapes of the 1980s and the fat-free-everything 1990s. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself,”...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Gillian Blease/Getty Images Knowing which organizations perform the best on any particular dimension used to require subjective surveys or painstaking research. Today, the data to answer those questions exists — it’s captured by the software-as-a-service...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 10, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Who hasn’t been affected by the divisive nature of our political discourse these days? Friends, neighbors, and family of different political persuasions won’t talk to each other about controversial issues for fear of causing offense or being shunned. Meanwhile, the...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
alashi/Getty Images Companies are cutting supply chain complexity and accelerating responsiveness using the tools of artificial intelligence. Through AI, machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, firms are augmenting knowledge-intensive areas such...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
hero image/Getty Images In the U.S., racial and ethnic minorities have higher rates of chronic disease, obesity, and premature death than white people. Black patients in particular have among the worst health outcomes, experiencing higher rates of hypertension and...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Robert Woloschanowski/EyeEm/Getty Images It has been a very rough few months for MoviePass. Since I last wrote about the company, theater operator AMC entered the subscription market, to early success, and MoviePass took out and paid back a $6 million emergency loan...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Robert Woloschanowski/EyeEm/Getty Images It has been a very rough few months for MoviePass. Since I last wrote about the company, theater operator AMC entered the subscription market, to early success, and MoviePass took out and paid back a $6 million emergency loan...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 10, 2018 | HBR
A study published online by the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found a link between the type of food that women regularly ate, and the age they went through menopause. Specifically, they found that women who regularly noshed on servings of refined pasta...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 9, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Aug 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Is miscommunication a constant problem at your workplace? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Holly Weeks, a lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
William Andrew/Getty Images After years of working in tech startups, which strive to transform underdog status into competitive advantage, I dove into the nonprofit world. The contrast was striking: Too few nonprofits use the advantages of their...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Patrick George/Getty Images Companies are using AI to prevent and detect everything from routine employee theft to insider trading. Many banks and large corporations employ artificial intelligence to detect and prevent fraud and money laundering. Social media...
by HappyQuotient | Aug 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Lee Powers/Getty Images Luxury goods are instrumental to status signaling — our hope that people will recognize the insignia on a suitcase, or the stitching on a pair of jeans, and see us a certain way. For the $262 billion luxury market, tapping into...
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