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...overall profits. (The study looked at profit, not profit margin, but controlled for firm size.) On the other hand, executives who were rated highly on measures of warmth, such as likeability and trustworthiness, didn?t necessarily match up with successful companies. Boards of directors take note: "There's no relationship between how trustworthy a person seems and how well the company does," says Nicholas Rule, a doctoral candidate and one of the study's co-authors. "Warmth isn't correlated with success. Power...
...Designing and supporting advising programs in a place where faculty, administrators, and students constantly tell us how busy they are is a challenge. What we promote (and desire fervently) is that students and advisers spend time together to build effective, substantive relationships. Advising does not arise from brief encounters. It comes from honest, even probing conversations, which require some trust and commitment on the part of both people who are together constructing an advising relationship...
...integral part of making their four years at Harvard a fulfilling, rich, and productive experience. After all, we hold out the idealistic hope that students will use their undergraduate education to explore new things, to discover their passions, so that they can understand themselves, their world, and their relationship with that world in more profound ways. We want students to discover new passions because doing so is an enriching experience that we return to throughout our lives—whether for solace, intellectual satisfaction, future guidance, or merely to inspire more interesting dinner party conversations...
...Previous research has shown that emotional factors such as depression, low self-esteem, and self-perception contribute to obesity in adolescence. This survey, the authors wrote, was the first to evaluate the relationship between social status in schools and weight change...
...This is hard on me, and I'm not totally in charge of my emotions," Carroll told TIME. "It's interesting how you can have a love-hate relationship with somebody and love them, care about them and at the same time, despise the dark side of them that comes about for whatever reason. [That dark side] was disgusting, and basically destroyed a very lovely human being," he said about Bowman's decades of drug abuse...