by HappyQuotient | Oct 3, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
FotografiaBasica/Getty Images Over the last several years, competing notions of “diversity” have emerged. In many corners, the traditional definition, focused on demographic diversity, has been eclipsed by a new concept centered on experiential or...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 3, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
FotografiaBasica/Getty Images Over the last several years, competing notions of “diversity” have emerged. In many corners, the traditional definition, focused on demographic diversity, has been eclipsed by a new concept centered on experiential or...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 3, 2018 | HBR
Household disinfectants seem like such a good idea, especially when you have children — after all, children make messes, and killing germs helps keep children healthy, right? Not always, it turns out. Sometimes germs actually keep us healthy and keep us at a healthy...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 3, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Don Farrall/Getty Images When she first saw the email, she thought she was about to be fired. About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 3, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
perets/Getty Images Ratings play an enormous role in our lives. Ratings made by critics, judges, and evaluators determine a range of outcomes, from the seemingly trivial (which wine you pick for dinner or which products you buy from Amazon) to the more consequential...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 3, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Stuff happens. Another car suddenly swerves into your lane on the freeway. You misplace your keys and wallet two minutes before you need to catch your bus to work. You shred the wrong client file at the office. These mini-disasters create quite a startle in your...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 2, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Bill Kerr, a professor at Harvard Business School, studies the increasing importance of talent clusters in our age of rapid technological advances. He argues that while talent and industries have always had a tendency to cluster, today’s trend towards San...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 2, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff The past year has served as a wake-up call for many Facebook users. Between the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony and the advent of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have fresh insight...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 2, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Alice Mollon/Getty Images Precision cancer medicine — sequencing a patient’s DNA in order to customize cancer treatments — shows promise, but is very much in its infancy. It’s still not nearly precise enough to launch a winning battle...
