by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | HBR
A new study has raised the possibility that stress may cause autoimmune disease, such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, because it found a higher incidence of autoimmune diseases among people who were previously diagnosed with stress-related disorders. I have patients...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Tara Moore/Getty Images In a famous scene in the 1967 movie The Graduate, a family friend takes aside Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, and whispers in a conspiratorial tone, “Plastics… There’s a great future in plastics.”...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Patricia de Melo Moreira/bloomberg/Getty Images It’s widely believed that the most successful entrepreneurs are young. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg were in their early twenties when they launched what would become world-changing companies. Do...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 11, 2018 | GGSC, Happiness, Health, Inspire, Wellness
Ever wonder why we get a warm feeling when we come home? Or why laughter makes us feel so good? Or why, even though exercise is good for us, so many of us tend to avoid it? If so, you may want to pick up Dean Burnett’s book Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | HBR
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by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Howard Yu, Lego Professor of Management and Innovation at IMD Business School in Switzerland, discusses how the industrial cluster in the Swiss city of Basel is a unique example of enduring competitive advantage. He explains how early dye makers were able to...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff/Richard Newstead/Getty Images “Tell me about your career goals.” How often have you said this to a person you’re managing or mentoring, only to get a blank stare in return? Perhaps the person confides that they...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | HBR
We are in the midst of an obesity epidemic in the United States. Currently 40% of adults and almost 20% of children are obese. The childhood obesity numbers particularly worry us, because the effects of obesity accumulate over time. A child who is obese is more likely...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Tim Robberts/Getty Images There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. According to our research, over 60% of reported attacks on publicly traded U.S. firms in 2017 were...
by HappyQuotient | Jul 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Alexander Spatari/Getty Images Sometimes the wrong people get promoted. They might be deceitful and unscrupulously manipulative (what psychologists call “Machiavellian”); or impulsive and thrill-seeking without any sense of guilt (psychopathic); or...
