by HappyQuotient | Oct 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Education Images/Getty Images People are often highly motivated to avoid threats. If you are walking down a dark, isolated city street, you are vigilant for unexpected sights and sounds and probably pick up the pace to get back to a populated area as quickly as...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images America spends $3.3 trillion on health care, or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured. If the Affordable Care Act...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
retales botijero/Getty Images Let’s face it: The open office can be a nightmare, especially when you’re working on something that requires your undivided attention. To make matters worse, your colleagues can be distracting — maybe they’re...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Grove Pashley/Getty Images Robert is a strong leader. How do I know? When he left one company to join another, many in his top team followed him to the new company because they wanted to keep working for him. That’s a pretty strong testimonial. “Yes, he...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
ShutterWorx/Getty Images The consumer banking industry is notoriously difficult to enter, not least because most customers rarely switch banks. In some countries, people change spouses more often than they change banks. The banking industry in South Africa was no...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Amazon recently made headlines by announcing that it would voluntarily increase its minimum hourly wage to $15. With a federal minimum wage of only $7.25, this pledge might seem like a curious decision — especially for a company...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
ShutterWorx/Getty Images The consumer banking industry is notoriously difficult to enter, not least because most customers rarely switch banks. In some countries, people change spouses more often than they change banks. The banking industry in South Africa was no...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Nicolas Vallejos Photography and Design/Getty Images Health care practitioners and payer organizations increasingly use big data to overcome what might be called a “flaw of averages” in traditional medicine: a treatment that has been tested at a population...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Peter Cade/Getty Images Women engineers have a visibility problem. Like women in other ultra-masculine sectors, they are often excessively visible as women, but overlooked when it comes to their technical expertise. This paradox gets in the way of forming...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Inti St Clair/Getty Images It is no doubt a sign of progress that a significant proportion of organizations and managers today appear to feel guilty when they admit that they are making big management decisions in an intuitive rather than evidence-based way. Indeed,...
