by HappyQuotient | Oct 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Beata Bernina/Getty Images The SEC Chairman recently announced a policy initiative to enable the ordinary investors to invest in private companies. Currently, only wealthy accredited investors are allowed to invest in private companies. His stated goal is...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
mathisworks/Getty Images A key determinant of everything that matters when it comes to health interventions — the experience, cost, and results — has been hiding in plain sight. It is the buildings and spaces in which patients are treated. The size...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Image Source/Getty Images As we begin our coaching session, Nick is fired up. He radiates energy, his eyes are beaming with determination, and he never really comes to a full rest. He speaks passionately of a new initiative he is spearheading, taking on the looming...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Photography by Bob/Getty Images Across our society and in all industries, leaders and their organizations are racing to unlock the value of data, tech-enable business processes, and create better, more digitally-enhanced experiences for customers, clients, and...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Martin Poole/Getty Images A recent management column in the Wall Street Journal appeared under the appealing headline, “The Best Bosses Are Humbles Bosses.” The article reported that humble leaders “inspire close teamwork, rapid learning and...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 15, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Martin Poole/Getty Images A recent management column in the Wall Street Journal appeared under the appealing headline, “The Best Bosses Are Humbles Bosses.” The article reported that humble leaders “inspire close teamwork, rapid learning and...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HIROKAZU JIKE/Getty Images Women’s conferences and employee resource groups (ERGs) are increasingly inviting men to attend. By creating events aimed at men, they hope to include men in discussions around gender equity in the workplace, and make organizational...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
PhotoAlto/Michele Constantini/Getty Images To make progress against knotty problems, break them down — dissect the causes and analyze their impact on different groups. That analysis inevitably leads away from dubious “magic bullet” solutions and...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
ICHIRO/Getty Images In my coaching work with leaders and teams, I often ask my clients whether they engage in workplace gossip. More often than not, they respond, “of course not!” with a look on their faces that indicates that they are insulted to have...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Billy Currie Photography/Getty Images In the wake of the Theranos scandal, some commentators have asked whether entrepreneurial companies are particularly inclined to deception and downright fraud. Startups are often focused on disrupting existing markets,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Billy Currie Photography/Getty Images In the wake of the Theranos scandal, some commentators have asked whether entrepreneurial companies are particularly inclined to deception and downright fraud. Startups are often focused on disrupting existing markets,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
John Lund/Getty Images Leaders today increasingly turn to big data and advanced analytics in hopes of solving their most pressing problems, whether it’s a drop-off of repeat customers, a shift in consumption patterns, or an attempt to reach new markets. The...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images A near-constant stream of business and scientific news reminds us that 50% of Americans are lonely. Former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s powerful HBR article notes that half of CEOs suffer from loneliness. In addition to its...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 12, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images Netflix’s global growth is a big factor in the company’s success. It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. In the second quarter of...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Thomas Barwick/Getty Images California recently passed a law requiring public firms headquartered in the state to include at least one woman on their boards by the end of 2019. The proposal has led to criticism that board quotas have unintended consequences. Others...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Mint Images/Getty Images There are plenty of great ideas and techniques in the data space: from analytics to machine learning to data-driven decision making to improving data quality. Some of these ideas that have been around for a long time and are fully vetted,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Mint Images/Getty Images There are plenty of great ideas and techniques in the data space: from analytics to machine learning to data-driven decision making to improving data quality. Some of these ideas that have been around for a long time and are fully vetted,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Katsumi KASAHARA/Getty Images When leaders describe how advances in automation will affect job prospects for humans, predictions typically fall into one of two camps. Optimists say that machines will free human workers to do higher-value, more creative work....
by HappyQuotient | Oct 11, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
SolStock/Getty Images To create an analytical culture in your organization, you need to nurture the right mindset among your employees. And that starts with creating a culture of analytics in your HR department. How can senior leaders help HR develop a culture in...
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,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
George Diebold/Getty Images It has become common advice for businesspeople to use “I statements” — such as, “I feel frustrated that you missed the budget deadline twice” — as a way to raise challenging conversations without causing...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 10, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
George Diebold/Getty Images It has become common advice for businesspeople to use “I statements” — such as, “I feel frustrated that you missed the budget deadline twice” — as a way to raise challenging conversations without causing...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Shana Novak/Getty Images This week brought some sobering news on the near future of our planet and species. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued an important new report about how dire the consequences of climate change are becoming, and how fast...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Francesca Gino, a professor at Harvard Business School, shares a compelling business case for curiosity. Her research shows allowing employees to exercise their curiosity can lead to fewer conflicts and better outcomes. However, even managers who value inquisitive...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
The summer vacation season may be behind us, but the holidays are right around the corner. And soon enough your colleagues may be asking you to cover for them while they’re away. All of a sudden, you’re juggling not only your normal work but also...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
The summer vacation season may be behind us, but the holidays are right around the corner. And soon enough your colleagues may be asking you to cover for them while they’re away. All of a sudden, you’re juggling not only your normal work but also...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
A partnership between the Boston Medical Center and Commonwealth Care Alliance, a community-based health care organization, provides a promising new hospitalist model for inpatient treatment of complex care patients — patients with extensive,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 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 Hearing your manager say you’re...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
If you were entering the job market in the early 90s, most job descriptions included “Macintosh experience” or “excellent PC skills” in their preferred qualifications. This quickly became a requirement for even the most non-technical jobs,...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, realized that being a good leader required being a good mind reader. “I see my task as serving the majority of people,” he said in an interview to Forbes. “The question is, how do you find out what they...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 9, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Dougal Waters/Getty Images Whether in corporate life or entrepreneurship, the recipe for success is clear: Win and execute lucrative projects. The reasons are obvious: Your business wouldn’t exist without money to run it, and the more, the better. But...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
JUSTIN TALLIS/Getty Images When Goldman Sachs named David Solomon its new CEO, the media didn’t just focus on his professional background and his rise through the ranks; it also covered his moonlighting as a bona fide DJ. Solomon, aka DJ D-Sol, is known for his...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
VCG/Getty Images Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science....
by HappyQuotient | Oct 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
When women behave in ways that don’t fit their gender stereotype — for example, by being assertive — they are viewed as less likable and ultimately less hirable. Does that same hold true for men? Are they similarly penalized for straying from...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
HBR Staff The past 10 years have seen a wave of innovative big data software designed to analyze, manipulate, and visualize data. Yet for the regular knowledge worker, Microsoft Excel, 30 years on, remains the go-to product for people looking to make sense of data....
by HappyQuotient | Oct 8, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
I was 34 when I heard my doctor say “stage-four Hodgkin’s lymphoma.” The news hit me like a punch to the face. I was stunned. Then every two weeks for six months, I had to go the Lineberger Cancer Center to receive chemo. I had a hard time getting...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 5, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Alan Copson/Getty Images Employees around the world are reporting that big organizational changes are affecting their jobs. From leadership transitions and restructurings, to mergers and acquisitions, to regulatory changes, there seems to be constant unrest in the...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 5, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Apple recently announced a new feature to the Apple Watch: the latest version will be able to measure heart rhythms and notify patients about abnormal, and potentially harmful, patterns. Doctors, however, are skeptical. Their biggest concern is that the feature...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 5, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Scott Barbour/Getty Images With today’s high demand for data scientists and the high salaries that they command, it’s often not practical for companies to keep them on staff. Instead, many organizations work to ramp up their existing staff’s...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 5, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Hero Images/Getty Images In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. To many at the time, we were fools. Critics outside of...
by HappyQuotient | Oct 5, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Maintaining strong, productive relationships with clients and co-workers can be challenging when you never see the person you’re working with. Yet, it is common to have ongoing work relationships – sometimes lasting years...
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