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- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
worth using. But today, says Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack and his research collaborators, "not invented here" is becoming a badge of honor—and more than that, a source of competitive...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
think these things are unimportant and uninteresting, but that's never been true." Greater transparency may be brought about through the introduction of carbon trading markets, Reinhardt suggests—an...
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- 26 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates
from historically marginalized groups—even when the real goal is to create a more diverse workplace, because it’s both the right thing to do and good for business. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Summer Jackson...
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by Kristen Senz
- 15 Jan 2020
- News
The Business of Access
expenses. It’s about the things that would make their work better and easier, which are resources that private-sector employees take for granted.” In January 2019, Lisle became CEO of Vista Center for the...
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Maureen Harmon
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas....
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by Garry Emmons
- 17 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees
In a post-pandemic business world of hybrid work and quiet quitting, companies must rethink how they motivate employees. Good incentive plans and reward structures require a careful analysis of a company’s...
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by Avery Forman
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
2020 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Related Reading Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager? Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
Takeaways from the Class of 2015
How do you sum up your biggest takeaways from business school in just a few sentences? This year, the Class of 2015 was challenged to do just that. After reflecting on their two years at HBS during the Bridges programming, each student...
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- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
limits of their technical mastery. He gave them some slack to work with, and asked them to do unusual things with it. It's interesting to think about and look at examples of...
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- February 1985
- Article
Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers
By: T. M. Amabile
72 members of the college community who identified themselves as actively involved in creative writing participated in individual laboratory sessions, in which they were asked to write 2 brief poems, to investigate the hypothesis that intrinsic motivation is conducive...
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Social Psychology;
Creativity;
Motivation and Incentives;
Performance;
Personal Characteristics;
Situation or Environment
Amabile, T. M. "Motivation and Creativity: Effects of Motivational Orientation on Creative Writers." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 48, no. 2 (February 1985): 393–399.
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Most of the money is taken from revenues generated by the Working Assets credit card, long-distance telephone, and Internet businesses, whose customers sign on for these services because they support the...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
The Business of Champions
Last month, more than one million people lined the streets of Boston for a parade in honor of their National Hockey League champion Boston Bruins. Talk about consumer excitement over a product! On that score...
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- December 2018
- Case
DraftKings and the Future of Fantasy Sports
By: Robert F. Higgins and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2012, DraftKings helped change the fantasy sports landscape by popularizing daily fantasy sports (DFS), or short-term fantasy sports tournaments that offered big cash prizes to winners. The company’s valuation exceeded $1 billion by 2015, but DraftKings soon...
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Fantasy Sports;
Daily Fantasy Sports;
DraftKings;
FanDuel;
Supreme Court;
Sports Betting;
Sports Gambling;
Sports;
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Government Legislation;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Laws and Statutes;
Business Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Sports Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Boston
Higgins, Robert F., and Julia Kelley. "DraftKings and the Future of Fantasy Sports." Harvard Business School Case 819-074, December 2018.
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
generations to feel that we kicked the problem down to them, I’d rather solve it now. One of the other unique things about 44.01, aside from the technology, is that we are working in a part View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
looks like a "win-win" answer to the scarcity of good managers and the predominance of low-involvement entry-level jobs. But are sufficient numbers of entry-level...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
The Power of Civility
engaged in the organization. One of the benefits of that is having a network of entrepreneurs around the world, like-minded people who see things...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
In Service of Others
discussions,” observes Chad Losee (MBA 2013), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. “Veterans are very aware of the fact that we all benefit from this nation—its resources, its history, the...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
The HourlyNerd origin story could become an HBS legend: The rapidly growing startup, which connects graduates from top MBA programs with businesses that need project-based consulting, began as a FIELD 3 project—one that fellow HBS classmates doomed to failure. In FIELD...
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April White