Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

It may seem that the employers of such low-wage workers — who focus mainly on keeping costs down in order to survive in a relentlessly competitive industry — would have no incentive to provide such training or resources for personal development. And her managers are, too. She is happier now.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Yet in today’s rapidly evolving, 24/7 workplaces, it’s not always clear what managers should do to create the most satisfying work experiences and the happiest employees. If you supervise others, make sure you do the following: Manage individuals, not teams. But this is also the manager’s responsibility.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

New research from Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage , also shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, vacation just might be great for our career , too. American workers already forfeit a large percentage of their existing paid time off (Project Time Off says it was 169 million days in 2013.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

As I reflected upon my career at Goldman Sachs, though, what stood out was the importance of its organizational structure. The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). I now have a Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

This last must be especially aggravating to managers of multinationals in Brazil who pay people to work only to have them arrive late, leave early, and ask for sick leave when they are not sick. What is that the samba schools have that corporate organizations in Brazil don’t?

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Teamwork Absenteeism Class Motivation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. What’s in the Tax Bill?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2013

But the Republicans still maintain a solid, if smaller, majority in the House, and most GOP House members have more to fear from primary challengers from the right than from Democratic general election opponents — meaning that, on the individual level, they have no incentive to compromise. My own opinion is that it doesn't.

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