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How to Manage Your Stress When the Sky Is Falling
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Happiness Isn't the Absence of Negative Feelings
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The Power of Collective Ambition
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Disappointment Makes You More Trusting: An Interview with Luis Martinez
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Why Do Employees Resist Change?
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Gazing at Nature Makes You More Productive
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWe've long sensed that spending time in green landscapes soothes and restores us. Now new research reveals that people benefit from simply looking at... -
When Anxiety Becomes Unbearable
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Prepare Your Brain for Change
To adapt to change, your brain needs to learn something new. Help it learn-by adopting healthy habits, exercising your cognitive powers, and taking frequent... -
How to Inoculate Your Team Against Conspiracy Theories
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Major Sales: Who Really Does the Buying? (HBR Classic)
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWhen is a buyer not really a buyer? How can the best product at the lowest price turn off buyers? Are there anonymous leaders who make the actual buying... -
Build Your Emotional Agility
Strong leaders don't try to control their inner experiences. Instead, they use emotional agility to put them to good use. As a result, these leaders reduce... -
Perfectionism Will Slow You Down in a Crisis
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How to Manage Your Emotions Without Fighting Them
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Ethical Shoppers Don't Inspire Us--They Bug Us
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleNew research reveals that when people don't examine the ethical practices of the companies making the products they buy, they feel hostile toward consumers... -
Executive as Coach
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleHow do you deal with the talented manager whose perfectionism paralyzes his direct reports? Or the high-performing expert who disdains teamwork under... -
Anxiety Is Contagious. Here's How to Contain It.
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Don't Give Up on Unconscious Bias Training - Make It Better
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere's a growing skepticism about whether unconscious bias training is an effective tool to meet corporate diversity goals. Some studies have shown that... -
Without Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness Doesn't Work
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Why People Are Drawn to Narcissists Like Donald Trump
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleLots of leaders are self-absorbed.
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Do You Have a Phone Addiction?
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3 Types of Overthinking — and How to Overcome Them
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3 Ways to Build an Organizational Culture That Supports Mental Health
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How Project Managers Can Better Navigate Setbacks
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Harvard’s Arthur C. Brooks on the Secrets to Happiness at Work
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3 Ways Our Brains Undermine Our Ability to Be a Good Leader
Leadership Digital ArticleUnderstanding the science of what’s going on can help us counteract these self-sabotaging tendencies. -
What Do Your B2B Customers Really Want?
Sales and marketing Digital ArticleResearch shows they prefer interactions that fuel their psychological needs — even if they require more time or cost more money. -
Why Success Doesn’t Lead to Satisfaction
Personal growth and transformation Digital ArticleIt’s time to confront your unhealthy relationship with achievement. -
Are Our Brains Wired to Quiet Quit?
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5 Ways to Manage Your Personal Finances
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Don’t Let Anchoring Bias Weigh Down Your Judgment
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A Common Parasite Can Make People More Entrepreneurial
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleToxoplasma gondii, which is estimated to infect 10% to 50% of the population, affects your brain and makes you disinhibited and less risk-averse. It also... -
Don't Focus on the Most Expressive Face in the Audience
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Building a Better Workplace Starts with Saying "Thanks"
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Overconfidence Is Contagious
Organizational Development Digital ArticleResearch shows that arrogance spreads socially. -
Self-Compassion Will Make You a Better Leader
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How to Brace Yourself for Disappointment
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSometimes focusing on the worst-case scenario helps. Sometimes it doesn't. -
A Self-Care Guide to Help You Get Through Election Day
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Unartificial Intelligence
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Confidence Doesn't Always Boost Performance
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA team of researchers found that people who were optimistic about their abilities scored no better than people who doubted themselves on a wide range...
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Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
14.99View Details Are you at the top of your game--or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful "9 Things Successful People Do Differently," where... -
Brand Revitalizing and Brand Reinforcement: The Case of Arrow Shirts in the Indian Context
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details With several brands in the premium shirt market, the Arrow brand faced the challenge of balancing its premium associations that had been nurtured in the... -
Money Cash Flow Inc.: HR Analytics Applied to Employee Retention and Well-Being Issues (B)
Communication Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC162. This two-part analytical case illustrates the situation of Money Cash Flow Inc., a fast-growing Canadian insurance company,... -
iCare Benefits: Assisting Low Income Retail Consumers in Vietnam (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Case A is set in 2016. Trung Dung is the founder of iCare Benefits (iCare), a social enterprise established to aid low-income workers. His background... -
Learning Teams: Shrinking to Fit (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Teams often collapse over personality issues. This case explores such a collapse, in the context of an MBA student learning team. Students can explore... -
PeopleFirst Inc: A Star Employee but a Terrible Manager
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details PeopleFirst Inc. (PeopleFirst) was a management consulting company founded and run by Renee Janssen. Janssen had recently promoted a star employee, Marcela... -
How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding
Sales & Marketing Book38.00View Details Coca-Cola. Harley-Davidson. Nike. Budweiser. Valued by customers more for what they symbolize than for what they do, products like these are more than... -
HBR Guides to Managing Stress and Burnout Toolkit
99.95View Details Stress and burnout are rampant. Recognize the signs and make the right changes. The always-on workplace and increasing pressures are leading to high rates... -
The Microstress Effect: How Little Things Pile Up and Create Big Problems--and What to Do about It
30.00View Details How a million little things are dragging you down, and what to do about it. There's a force we encounter every day that we aren't aware of--and it threatens... -
Character, Strengths and Virtues
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details It is stable, but at the same time it has a range of malleability - it can be changed and improved upon. Virtues refer to habits or long-lasting attitudes... -
James Cranston
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Parents Who Lead: The Leadership Approach You Need to Parent with Purpose, Fuel Your Career, and Create a Richer Life
30.00View Details How working parents can lead more purposeful lives, characterized by harmony, connection, and impact. Parents in today's fast-paced, disorienting world... -
Emotion in Negotiations: An Introduction
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This note reviews some of the relevant research and offers advice for managing and dealing with emotions in the negotiation context. In particular, negotiators... -
pymetrics (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In March 2013, pymetrics CEO Frida Polli visited Harvard Business School to listen to a section of MBA students from the class of 2013 to discuss her... -
Billy Beane: Changing the Game
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Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
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Harvard Business Review Emotional Intelligence Collection (4 Books) (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
75.00View Details How to be human at work. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of... -
A Giant Among Women
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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership eBook Collection + HBR IdeaCast Audio Interviews (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
109.99View Details How to be human at work. The "Emotionally Intelligent Leadership eBook Collection + HBR IdeaCast Audio Interviews" includes a set of four ebooks in the... -
Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence
Communication Book30.00View Details We've outsourced too much of our thinking. How do we get it back? Have you ever followed your GPS device to a deserted parking lot? Or unquestioningly...
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How to Manage Your Stress When the Sky Is Falling
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleGo back to the basics. -
Build Your Team's Resilience - From Home
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt comes down to two things: people and perspective. -
Stretching the Mind: Developing an Adaptive Lens to Deal with Complexity
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Happiness Isn't the Absence of Negative Feelings
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Nine Things Successful People Do Differently
14.99View Details Are you at the top of your game--or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful "9 Things Successful People Do Differently," where... -
The Power of Collective Ambition
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Disappointment Makes You More Trusting: An Interview with Luis Martinez
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA new set of experiments reveals that being let down induces surprisingly collaborative behavior in people. -
Why Do Employees Resist Change?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleDespite the best efforts of senior executives, major change initiatives often fail. Those failures have at least one common root: Executives and employees... -
Gazing at Nature Makes You More Productive
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWe've long sensed that spending time in green landscapes soothes and restores us. Now new research reveals that people benefit from simply looking at... -
When Anxiety Becomes Unbearable
Organizational Development Big IdeaPsychologist Ellen Hendriksen on the warning signs - and responding with compassion