Harvard Business School – The Construction of Pain
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BBC
4.4 • 997 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Harvard Business School: Laurie Taylor takes a journey through the complex moral world of what many call the West Point of American Capitalism. Michel Anteby, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, describes his research into the inner workings, mores and rituals of this highly influential institution.They're joined by Professor Ken Starkey from the Nottingham University Business School.
Also, a cultural history of pain with Dr Louise Hide, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck. University of London.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
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| 0:44.0 | Hello. I once corrected an academic colleague who told me that she was jealous of an |
| 0:49.3 | LSE sociologist whose book on the third way had turned him into a national celebrity. |
| 0:54.0 | Oh, I think you mean envious, I said pompously. |
| 0:58.0 | No, said my colleague, I mean jealous. |
| 1:01.0 | And you know something? I have a special authority over my own emotions. |
| 1:06.0 | Well that reproof came back to me when I was reading the clutch of emails prompted by our recent |
| 1:10.2 | discussion of meagrain. |
| 1:11.9 | Time and again correspondence told me about the very different |
| 1:14.1 | pains they had endured, the very different causes which they believed lay behind these very |
| 1:18.9 | different pains. Keep off caffeine, advised Philip Cullen. Beware carbon monoxide, |
| 1:23.7 | warned Stephanie Trotter, drink water suggested Susan Gabriel. And they told me |
| 1:28.0 | about the very different sites or locations of their pain. Here for example is |
| 1:32.3 | Alan Reese. |
| 1:33.0 | Lorry, against the doctors who claim that migraine is all in the brain, I can assure you I feel |
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