by HappyQuotient | Jun 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
OLI SCARFF/Getty Images When Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached AT&T about partnering on a new kind of mobile phone — a touchscreen computer that would fit in your pocket — Apple had no expertise in the mobile market. Yet AT&T executives...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Amid current outbreaks of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Nipah virus in India, an even scarier threat looms. Last year, researchers recreated an extinct smallpox-like virus with DNA bought online for just $100,000 and...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 18, 2018 | HBR
It’s finally getting warm here in New England, and most of us have plans to enjoy the beautiful weather. And that’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a report raising awareness about how to prevent the tickborne infections that...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Andy Roberts/Getty Images It takes time for a big idea to make its way into business practice. Six years ago, Harvard’s Michael Porter and FSG’s Mark Kramer made the bold statement that shared value — the idea that the purpose of a company...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 18, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Half of parents today think that their children are addicted to smartphones, and these parents are concerned about how mobile phones will affect their kids’ mental health, according to a new survey from Common Sense Media and SurveyMonkey. Each day, we hear that...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Tim Robberts/Getty Images Research has repeatedly shown that U.S. patients receive recommended care only half of the time. It is also known that patients receive non-recommended or “low-value” care as much as 20% of the time. Despite the proliferation of...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 17, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
baranozdemir/Getty Images Having a great boss is a potentially life-changing gift. On the other hand, many of us know firsthand that having a bad boss can cause a lot of drama, headaches, and stress. While it’s easy to love the great bosses and flee the bad...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Artiga Photo/Getty Images Each year around Father’s Day, some businesses take a moment to express well wishes for the working dads among the staff. Unfortunately, that sensibility is too often short-lived. Seventy-three percent of U.S. working fathers say there...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Artiga Photo/Getty Images Each year around Father’s Day, some businesses take a moment to express well wishes for the working dads among the staff. Unfortunately, that sensibility is too often short-lived. Seventy-three percent of U.S. working fathers say there...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Alistair Berg/Getty Images The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. To make the best decisions, managers need access to real-time data about their supply chain, but the limitations of legacy technologies can thwart the goal of end-to-end...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Rolfo Brenner/EyeEm/Getty Images In almost any business these days, you are guaranteed to interact with people whose cultural background is quite different from your own. In a global organization, you may have colleagues that come from a different country. You may...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff One of the most common ways to get people to save is through their employer. In particular, behavioral economics—that marriage of economics and psychology that has put terms like “nudge” into the popular lexicon—has provided a...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Hero Images/Getty Images Women who have already made it to the top say that the only person who will get you there is yourself. While many researchers and observers have examined the structural and other barriers that limit women’s progress through the ranks, we...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | HBR
Before going any further, here’s the main thing parents should know about swimming lessons: all children should have them. Every day, about 10 people die from drowning. Swimming lessons can’t prevent all of those deaths, but they can prevent a lot of them. A child...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Hero Images/Getty Images Women who have already made it to the top say that the only person who will get you there is yourself. While many researchers and observers have examined the structural and other barriers that limit women’s progress through the ranks, we...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | HBR
Before going any further, here’s the main thing parents should know about swimming lessons: all children should have them. Every day, about 10 people die from drowning. Swimming lessons can’t prevent all of those deaths, but they can prevent a lot of them. A child...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 15, 2018 | HBR
Before going any further, here’s the main thing parents should know about swimming lessons: all children should have them. Every day, about 10 people die from drowning. Swimming lessons can’t prevent all of those deaths, but they can prevent a lot of them. A child...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Does your direct report get on your nerves? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Art Markman, a psychology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and cohost of the...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
rawpixel/unsplash First impressions in the workplace really matter — and not just to the employer. New employees can begin to formulate impressions about organizations from the get-go, influencing their decision to stay with the company in the long term. Poor...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Juj Winn/Getty Images The term “innovation” is often associated with geniuses turning startups into gold mines — the next Google, Apple, or Amazon, with products no one even knew they needed. Private equity firms place hundreds of little bets on...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Kulka/Getty Images Over the last decade, e-commerce has imposed a painful profit squeeze on big-box retailers, resulting in layoffs, store closings, mall reconfigurations, and even bankruptcies. With no reprieve in sight for retailers, the online world is poised to do...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Gary John Norman/Getty Images Employers are increasingly finding ways to meet the needs of working fathers, offering them family leave, flexible scheduling, and affordable child care options. But fathers remain reluctant to take full advantage of this support, despite...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff Raise your hand if you have an insurmountable pile of projects on your to-do list and an inbox so terrifying to behold that you can hardly bear to behold it. Cue the sea of arms waving wildly. You have too much to do. You can’t do it alone. You need...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff Raise your hand if you have an insurmountable pile of projects on your to-do list and an inbox so terrifying to behold that you can hardly bear to behold it. Cue the sea of arms waving wildly. You have too much to do. You can’t do it alone. You need...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Thomas Markle, father of the Royal Wedding bride, is not the only dad who wasn’t at his child’s wedding, and not the saddest one. At least he was invited. Each year, thousands of fathers won’t attend their child’s wedding—and not because they lack the desire, but...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | HBR
Shortly after our son, William, died of an accidental heroin overdose at age 24, I stumbled upon this unflinching reflection of addiction as a family disease: “Addiction isn’t a spectator sport. Eventually the entire family gets to play.” It is a disease that can...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff Raise your hand if you have an insurmountable pile of projects on your to-do list and an inbox so terrifying to behold that you can hardly bear to behold it. Cue the sea of arms waving wildly. You have too much to do. You can’t do it alone. You need...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Thomas Markle, father of the Royal Wedding bride, is not the only dad who wasn’t at his child’s wedding, and not the saddest one. At least he was invited. Each year thousands of fathers won’t attend their child’s wedding—and not because they lack the desire, but...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
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by HappyQuotient | Jun 14, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
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by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Juanmonino/Getty Images I’d known Jeff (not his real name) for many years, as a client and as a friend, but I’d never seen him so thrown. I could feel his fear, his sense of uncertainty. And it was with good reason. Jeff was the head of sales for a company...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff/George Caswell/Steven Errico/Getty Images This week’s decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to allow AT&T and Time Warner to complete their merger will bring to a close a deal that has been pending for almost two years. In his...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Juanmonino/Getty Images I’d known Jeff (not his real name) for many years, as a client and as a friend, but I’d never seen him so thrown. I could feel his fear, his sense of uncertainty. And it was with good reason. Jeff was the head of sales for a company...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | HBR
In a first, a national cancer organization has issued formal guidelines recommending exercise as part of cancer treatment, for all cancer patients. The Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) is very clear on the directive. Its recommendations are: Exercise...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MirageC/Getty Images One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation, or RPA. RPA is a category of software tools that enable complex digital processes to be automated by performing them in the same way a human user might perform...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
japatino/Getty Images Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity is booming. From the $68 billion CVS-Aetna deal to the $27 billion merger of Microsoft and LinkedIn, 2017 set records with more than 50,000 deals, valued at $3.7 trillion. This momentum is continuing...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
By Ayman Sayed, President and Chief Product Officer, CA Technologies You’ve probably already heard of the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) across many industries and applications. But, what about the application of AI and ML to...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MirageC/Getty Images It’s a good time to be a consumer. New digital business models have flipped the customer-brand relationship on its head. No longer do consumers need to do their own background research on a product or company to find what they are looking...
by HappyQuotient | Jun 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MirageC/Getty Images It’s a good time to be a consumer. New digital business models have flipped the customer-brand relationship on its head. No longer do consumers need to do their own background research on a product or company to find what they are looking...
