by HappyQuotient | Nov 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
kumacore/Getty Images It’s a dreadful moment when a well-liked member of your team tenders their resignation. You experience a cocktail of emotions ranging from fear about how the rest of the team will react, to frustration at having to add recruiting to your...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
kumacore/Getty Images It’s a dreadful moment when a well-liked member of your team tenders their resignation. You experience a cocktail of emotions ranging from fear about how the rest of the team will react, to frustration at having to add recruiting to your...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 23, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Photographer is my life./Getty Images The current economic expansion is long by historical standards, and thus the risk of recession rises with each passing month. Recessions catch many companies by surprise, with predictable results. In the 2001 recession, total...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 23, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Female retention in engineering remains a persistent problem. Even after overcoming hurdles to enter the profession, women leave at much higher rates than men, often because of the stress that comes with being female in a male-dominated...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 22, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Monalyn Gracia/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 22, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images Scan the newspaper headlines, or switch on cable news for a few minutes, and it’s easy to conclude that we are living through harsh, mean, divisive times. But a recent column in the Washington Post reminded me of a truth that is...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Image Source/Getty Images Uber and Netflix have fundamentally shifted consumer behavior and disrupted incumbent firms. In our research, we’re beginning to see signs that Wall Street is being threatened by similar forces. Uber and Netflix’s success were...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Youngme Moon and Felix Oberholzer-Gee decide to “grade” The New York Times’ news coverage, before sharing their quick takes on other random things. They also share their After Hours picks for the week. Download this podcast For interested...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
pchyburrs/Getty Images Health care practitioners have traditionally relied on clinical heuristics to select, encode and process information from the patient. When a patient is presenting with multiple and complex issues, these heuristics reduce the...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Paper Boat Creative/Getty Images The moment a hyped-up new technology garners mainstream attention, many businesses will scramble to incorporate it into their enterprise. The majority of these trends will splutter and die out by Q4. Artificial intelligence (AI) is...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 21, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Ricardo Lima/Getty Images Many people believe that being a good manager only requires common sense, and that it is therefore easy to be one. If this were true, good managers would be commonplace at all levels of more organizations, and as a result, employee engagement...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Danae Diaz/Getty Images Benjamin Franklin knew he was smart — smarter than most of his peers — but he was also intelligent enough to understand that he couldn’t be right about everything. That’s why he said that whenever he was about to make an...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Herminia Ibarra, a professor at the London Business School, argues that job transitions — even exciting ones that you’ve chosen — can come with all kinds of unexpected emotions. Going from a job that is known and helped define your identity to a new...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Mark Wilson/Getty Images The ability to collect and exploit consumers’ personal data has long been a source of competitive advantage in the digital economy. It is their control and use of this data that has enabled the likes of Google, Amazon, Alibaba, and...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
clu/Getty Images I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. It was the right thing to do. For one...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
clu/Getty Images I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. It was the right thing to do. For one...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
clu/Getty Images I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. It was the right thing to do. For one...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 20, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
clu/Getty Images I’ve been using the sales funnel for 28 years, my whole career. This year, I retired the funnel — threw it a party, gave it a gold watch, and congratulated it on its move to a condo in Florida. It was the right thing to do. For one...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
“To be wise you must arrange your experiences on a lattice of models.” — Charlie Munger Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
From the Women at Work podcast: Listen and subscribe to our podcast via Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | RSS Download the discussion guide for this episode Join our online community Download this podcast It takes time and care to develop trusting...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
“To be wise you must arrange your experiences on a lattice of models.” — Charlie Munger Organizations are awash in data — from geocoded transactional data to real-time website traffic to semantic quantifications of corporate annual...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Andrew Brookes/Getty Images Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger. They’re more productive, more profitable, more innovative, and they pay better. The people lucky enough to work at these companies are doing relatively well. Those who...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
JUSTIN TALLIS/Getty Images In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Carol Yepes/Getty Images Sure, everyone wants to be happy. But what kind of happiness do people want? Is it happiness experienced moment-to-moment? Or is it being able to look back and remember a time as happy? Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman described this...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. is a crisis that was created, in part, by healthcare itself as prescriptions for pain-relieving medications rapidly increased in the 2000s. Now, healthcare is at the forefront in trying to fix the problem. At Geisinger, a...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. is a crisis that was created, in part, by healthcare itself as prescriptions for pain-relieving medications rapidly increased in the 2000s. Now, healthcare is at the forefront in trying to fix the problem. At Geisinger, a...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. is a crisis that was created, in part, by healthcare itself as prescriptions for pain-relieving medications rapidly increased in the 2000s. Now, healthcare is at the forefront in trying to fix the problem. At Geisinger, a...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MirageC/Getty Images Corporate bribery—that is, the practice of companies paying government officials for preferential treatment—is not only illegal in dozens of countries. Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MirageC/Getty Images Corporate bribery—that is, the practice of companies paying government officials for preferential treatment—is not only illegal in dozens of countries. Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
MirageC/Getty Images Corporate bribery—that is, the practice of companies paying government officials for preferential treatment—is not only illegal in dozens of countries. Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Daniel Viñé Garcia/Getty Images While on an investor tour in Europe, I ended a busy day by joining my boss at a nice restaurant. After he said something funny, I responded in my typical style — throwing back my head and letting out hearty,...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
John Rizzo/Getty Images Discounts and promotions are at an all-time high, often comprising the single-biggest cost within many retailers’ P&Ls. Yet despite these high stakes, and the growing adoption of sophisticated analytics, many retailers continue to...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 16, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
IAN HOOTON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images You walk down the hall, head spinning — unsure of how to stabilize yourself. You went into your one-on-one thinking you had clarity on your current priorities. You just left it wondering how in the world you would...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Is your teamwork not working? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of Amy Edmondson, a professor at Harvard Business School and the author of The Fearless Organization:...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
In a recent article, The Guardian newspaper called for the National Health Service to turn to universities as a key resource, arguing that the research ecosystem in the UK is fragmented and more partnerships that align expertise with the goal of improving public...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
PM Images/Getty Images A recent Navigant survey found that U.S. hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. This was because their expenses grew faster than their revenues, despite cost-cutting...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Andrea Comi/Getty Images Employees around the world yearn for freedom and flexibility. The most common form of flexibility that companies offer is the ability to work remote. In a new study by my firm and Virgin Pulse, we found that a third of employees globally work...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Eduardo da Costa/Getty Images Maybe you fell head over heels. Maybe your feelings grew over time. All you know is that you have what everyone is looking for, but few seem to get: A job you love. And you are about to leave it. How do you even start explaining? The work...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Eduardo da Costa/Getty Images Maybe you fell head over heels. Maybe your feelings grew over time. All you know is that you have what everyone is looking for, but few seem to get: A job you love. And you are about to leave it. How do you even start explaining? The work...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
YASUYOSHI CHIBA/Getty Images “When are you thinking of retiring?” I am used to this question by now. It usually comes up an hour into a meeting with a client prospect for our investment company, often after a shuffling of papers and downward glances....
by HappyQuotient | Nov 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Caspar Benson/Getty Images It has been a year since the #MeToo movement went viral. Since then, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has experienced a 13.6% increase in the number of sexual harassment charges it has received. The EEOC’s counterpart...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee discuss how much Uber is worth as it prepares to go public, before debating China’s controversial Social Credit system. They also share their After Hours picks for the week. Download this podcast You can email...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Mark Edward Harris/Getty Images What working parent hasn’t felt guilty about missing soccer games and piano recitals? When there are last-minute schedule changes at work or required travel to a client site, it’s normal to worry that you’re somehow...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Barbara Chase/Getty Images Some of the worst corporate disasters of the past two decades were heralded by whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins raised the red flag internally at Enron, Cynthia Cooper let management know of major accounting problems at WorldCom, and Matthew...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 14, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Barbara Chase/Getty Images Some of the worst corporate disasters of the past two decades were heralded by whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins raised the red flag internally at Enron, Cynthia Cooper let management know of major accounting problems at WorldCom, and Matthew...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Caitlin Rosenthal, assistant professor of history at UC Berkeley, argues there are strong parallels between the accounting practices used by slaveholders and modern business practices. While we know slavery’s economic impact on the United States, Rosenthal says...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Kim Kulish/Contributor/Getty Images Stan Lee hated to see an idle artist. The renowned comic book writer and publisher, who died this week at 95, thought idle talent was bored talent, and bored talent was easy to lose to the competition. It also personally bothered...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Kim Kulish/Contributor/Getty Images Stan Lee hated to see an idle artist. The renowned comic book writer and publisher, who died this week at 95, thought idle talent was bored talent, and bored talent was easy to lose to the competition. It also personally bothered...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Robert Hanson/Getty Images Why is it easier to see the best solution to other people’s dilemmas than our own? Whether it’s about someone deciding to pursue a new job, or ask for a raise, or someone simply mulling over which ice cream flavor to choose, we...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 13, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
JOHN WESSELS/Contributor/Getty Images Last month, a rebel attack in Beni, the epicenter of the ongoing Ebola outbreak near the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), once again halted the efforts of response teams working to contain the virus. With...
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