by HappyQuotient | Nov 27, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
James Detert, a professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, studies acts of courage in the workplace. His most surprising finding? Most people describe everyday actions — not big whistleblower scandals — when they cite courageous (or...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 27, 2018 | HBR
For your entire life you have been bombarded with information about which diet is the best to help you lose weight. Like many other people, you might have tried one or even a dozen diets, but it took a bit of trial and error for you to find which diet worked for you....
by HappyQuotient | Nov 27, 2018 | HBR
For your entire life you have been bombarded with information about which diet is the best to help you lose weight. Like many other people, you might have tried one or even a dozen diets, but it took a bit of trial and error for you to find which diet worked for you....
by HappyQuotient | Nov 27, 2018 | HBR
For your entire life you have been bombarded with information about which diet is the best to help you lose weight. Like many other people, you might have tried one or even a dozen diets, but it took a bit of trial and error for you to find which diet worked for you....
by HappyQuotient | Nov 27, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Jakal Pan/Getty Images We’re used to thinking of high-tech innovation and startups as generated and clustered predominantly in fertile U.S. ecosystems, such as Silicon Valley, Seattle, and New York. But as with so many aspects of American economic ingenuity,...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 27, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Digital business reached a tipping point in 2018 as organizations scaled their digital capabilities. Eighty-seven percent of senior business leaders say that digitalization is now a priority and in many cases is a do-or-die imperative. In our surveys, more than 66% of...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 27, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Classen Rafael/Getty Images Blockchain has the power to change our world for the better in so many ways. It can provide unbanked people with digital wallets, prevent fraud, and replace outdated systems with more efficient ones. But we still need this new and...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 27, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Microzoa/Getty Images When setting team goals, many managers feel that they must maintain a tricky balance between setting targets high enough to achieve impressive results and setting them low enough to keep the troops happy. But the assumption that employees are...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
In this special live episode, we share stories, research, and practical advice for strategic self-disclosure, and then take questions from the audience. Download this podcast Guest: Katherine Phillips is a management professor at Columbia Business School. Sign up for...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 26, 2018 | HBR
If you’re a smoker looking for another reason to quit, consider this: in addition to raising your risk of heart and lung disease, as well as cancers of the bladder and kidney, smoking could boost the odds that you will develop aggressive prostate cancer that...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 26, 2018 | HBR
The new cholesterol guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association are out! These guidelines — last updated in 2013 — have been highly anticipated by the cardiology and broader medical community. They have been approved by a variety...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 26, 2018 | HBR
The new cholesterol guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association are out! These guidelines — last updated in 2013 — have been highly anticipated by the cardiology and broader medical community. They have been approved by a variety...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 26, 2018 | Harvard Biz, HBR, Management Tips
Scott Olson/Getty Images Over the last several decades, women have made tremendous gains in many professions. Women physicians, for instance, were a rarity in the 1960s. Today, about 35% of physicians are women, and the representation will only increase as...
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 | HBR
The new cholesterol guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association are out! These guidelines — last updated in 2013 — have been highly anticipated by the cardiology and broader medical community. They have been approved by a variety...
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 | HBR
Right now the world is experiencing an epidemic that is projected to get much, much worse. It’s an epidemic of dementia, affecting 40 million people — and millions more of their caregivers — staggering numbers that will likely triple by 2050. Dementia is a progressive...
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 23, 2018 | HBR
Right now the world is experiencing an epidemic that is projected to get much, much worse. It’s an epidemic of dementia, affecting 40 million people — and millions more of their caregivers — staggering numbers that will likely triple by 2050. Dementia is a progressive...
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 | HBR
Holiday time is here again! So are the joys and challenges of holiday eating. The big challenge is to have fun at special occasions without jeopardizing some of the healthy practices you have worked on throughout the year. Here are some tips to help you survive the...
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 | HBR
Leaky gut gets blamed for everything from everyday stomach issues to pain to anxiety, yet it is one of the most mysterious ailments to diagnosis and treat. Part of the reason for this medical mystery is because the gut is such a vast and complex system. “Science...
by HappyQuotient | Nov 19, 2018 | HBR
Leaky gut gets blamed for everything from everyday stomach issues to pain to anxiety, yet it is one of the most mysterious ailments to diagnosis and treat. Part of the reason for this medical mystery is because the gut is such a vast and complex system. “Science...
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 | HBR
Getting your baby to sleep through the night: it’s the milestone all parents of infants long for. It’s understandable, given how precious and elusive a full night’s sleep can be for new parents. The quest for a full night of sleep becomes so important that many a book...
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...
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