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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
older among us; or, if we fail in that, at least the younger generation will have grown up with a presumption of incorrectness for the things that they read online. Rafael Di Tella: What Rawi is describing,...
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- 10 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing
are fired. Some may need to move to another state or another industry to find a job, and they may not find a job at the same level." The big thing is that “cash for information” may not be the right way to talk about it, because it comes...
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by April White
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
likable, and successful—but something derails them. In other words, the daunting challenge for many leaders and aspiring leaders isn't poverty or oppression or lack of skill or opportunity. It is, paradoxically, the very View Details
- 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.
- 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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- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Leveraging the power of yes
Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) is chief innovation officer at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from poverty. “One of the things I’ve...
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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
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
wasn't prepared for that aspect of running a business." "I learned to take risks," said Anderson. "Do things that seem a little strange and leave you a little exposed but give you access...
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
compared with modern marketing techniques, the Reconstruction Era actually shared some advertising commonalities with the dot-com boom. "The rise of the Internet in the 1990s had an enormous impact on...
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- May 2005
- Exercise
Forecasting the Adoption of E-books
By: Elie Ofek
Gives students an opportunity to understand the challenges inherent in forecasting the diffusions of innovations. Provides data for forecasting the adoption of electronic books. Students are encouraged to use the Bass Model framework, while being cognizant of its...
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Forecasting and Prediction;
Framework;
Books;
Analytics and Data Science;
Product Launch;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Adoption
Ofek, Elie. "Forecasting the Adoption of E-books." Harvard Business School Exercise 505-063, May 2005.
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Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration
By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse Shore and David Lazer
In this article, we summarize our research on the value of intermittency for complex problem solving at work and give practical advice on how organizations can improve the rhythm of their people's collaboration. Executives have been counseled to be collaborative...
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Bernstein, Ethan S., Jesse Shore, and David Lazer. "Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration." MIT Sloan Management Review 61, no. 1 (Fall 2019).
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
it required a huge amount of travel, with communications mailed and faxed around the world. Things are obviously different now, with the Internet, satellite phone connections, and video conference calls on...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
Leaders have gone to great lengths in the name of innovation—and yet far too often these efforts fall short, according to Scott Anthony (MBA 2001), a senior partner at the growth-strategy consulting firm Innosight and one View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. When the book is written on this election, it should not be titled The...
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by John Quelch
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
a more holistic approach in hiring and get rid of the tunnel vision on managing productivity, Minor says. “Even if you don’t care about people and all you want to do is make more money, you still should care about hiring people who care...
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by Roberta Holland
- 23 Oct 2014
- News
Why We Need to Outsmart Our Smart Devices
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
in part due to good timing seem to also do well in subsequent ventures. (By good timing we mean those entrepreneurs who founded a company in a given industry at a time when most new ventures did well: for example, microcomputer-related firms begun in 1981 or View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 29 May 2013
- Blog Post
Perks of the LVMH Family
such a multi-brand scale that is Sephora! The first thing I noticed is just the difference in complexity. At Sephora you have hundreds of people perusing, sampling, asking questions, etc. at the same time,...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
reviewed, discussed, and agonized over the pros and cons of every option, from appointing a successor to starting their own full-fledged organization. “We knew the decisions we were making could affect many people,” David says. “It was...
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