by HappyQuotient | Oct 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance, career success, and leadership effectiveness, it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. In...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 19, 2018 | HBR
You may have heard melasma referred to as “the mask of pregnancy,” because it is sometimes triggered by an increase in hormones in pregnant women. But while the condition may be common among pregnant women, you don’t have to be pregnant to experience melasma....
by HappyQuotient | Oct 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Creativ Studio HeinemannE/Getty Images As a college professor, I regularly train PhD students. In psychology and most fields of science, students are assigned to a project early on in their studies and learn key skills through an apprenticeship model. Many go onto to...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Do you deserve a higher salary? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions in a live taping with an audience of compensation experts. With the help of Susan Hollingshead, the chief people officer...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Creativ Studio HeinemannE/Getty Images As a college professor, I regularly train PhD students. In psychology and most fields of science, students are assigned to a project early on in their studies and learn key skills through an apprenticeship model. Many go onto to...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jorg Greuel/Getty Images Data skills — the skills to turn data into insight and action — are the driver of modern economies. According to the World Economic Forum, computing and mathematically-focused jobs are showing the strongest growth, at the...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Westend61/Getty Images One of the hardest things about introducing innovation or change in organizations is getting people on board. This is especially true in health care. As health care organizations are being pressured to cut costs, reduce medical errors, and adopt...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
SAUL LOEB/Getty Images Vice President Pence just made it all but official: The United States is in a cold war with China. Fed up with Beijing’s industrial espionage, market manipulation, and cyber attacks on the West, coupled with its bullying of neighbors and...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. In the 1990s, when Afghanistan was being ravaged by war, a bootstrapped initiative...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 18, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
kuritafsheen/Getty Images The feedback in the 360-degree reviews was supposed to be anonymous. But it was crystal clear who’d made the negative comments in the assessment of one executive. Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk,...
