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 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...
