Harvard Business

AUGUST 4, 2017

In one study, researchers found that employees fear that their manager will think less of them for taking vacation. A 2015 HBR article by Ron Friedman is a treasure trove of facts about the benefits to reaction time, creativity, and engagement. So if vacation has such a good ROI, why are people taking less and less of it?

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Here’s the good news: Americans, as a whole, are finally starting to earn more and take more paid time off. According to a study by Project: Time Off, American workers took an average of 16.8 days from 2015. And the amount of vacation time earned in 2016 jumped nearly one full day—to 22.6—from

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

As more sectors embrace a digital strategy — transportation, aviation, health care, energy, and so on — managers will find that a deep understanding of their market is still the most potent defense against competition. We respect the hyper-local culture in places we operate,” Tan said. “‘Why us?’

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

To this end, we analyzed 29 million business trips booked by Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) between 2011 and 2015. We found that, in 2015, one-fifth of business travelers took bleisure trips, and 7% of all business trips fit the bleisure profile. New York City to Miami is a short haul but the bleisure rate is 14%, double the average.

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Travel Survey Analysis Meeting 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. These advances will have also significantly increased the workload of more senior managers, keeping them working around the clock.

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