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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
learned about the basic functions of marketing, production, accounting, and finance." Want-ing more time to sort out the tension between theory and practice, Baldwin stayed on at HBS, earning her doctorate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
For Christina Ehrenberg (MBA 2001), HBS is only the latest in a series of remarkable learning experiences — the world itself has been her greatest teacher, imparting to her a wisdom and composure that belie her years. An only child whose... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
Editor's note: Behavioral economist Max H. Bazerman decided to pursue the subject of noticing after realizing that he wasn't very good at it himself. "The truth is that I was truly terrible at noticing," says Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
Buyers are more apt to use a product right after they purchase it, a fact you need to ponder as you consider how to keep customers coming back for more. In this e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Manda Mahoney, Harvard Business School professor John... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
Sean Silverthorne: What organizations are included in "social enterprise," and why do you define it in the way that you do? Herman "Dutch" Leonard: We include as a "social enterprise" any organization that places a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2016
- News
Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars
includes Monisha Kapila (MBA 2005), founder of ProInspire, a nonprofit that prepares highly qualified professionals for high-level roles in the social sector. Read a recent profile and learn how she took... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of... View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
current model is artificial and static, and far removed from everyday social interaction," says Jeana H. Frost, who along with Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely is taking an academic look at online dating and how it can be improved.... View Details
- 1999
- Article
Effects of Instructional Style on Problem-Solving Creativity
By: A. M. Ruscio and T. M. Amabile
This study sought to determine the impact of 2 differing instructional approaches on creative problem-solving performance. Eighty-two college students completed a novel structure-building task after receiving algorithmic instruction (providing a rote, step-by-step... View Details
Ruscio, A. M., and T. M. Amabile. "Effects of Instructional Style on Problem-Solving Creativity." Creativity Research Journal 12, no. 4 (1999): 251–266.
- 1996
- Article
Evidence to Support the Componential Model of Creativity: Secondary Analyses of Three Studies
By: R. Conti, H. Coon and T. M. Amabile
Amabile's (1983a, 1983b, 1988) componential model of creativity predicts that three major components contribute to creativity: skills specific to the task domain, general (cross-domain) creativity-relevant skills, and task motivation. If all three components actually... View Details
Conti, R., H. Coon, and T. M. Amabile. "Evidence to Support the Componential Model of Creativity: Secondary Analyses of Three Studies." Creativity Research Journal 9, no. 4 (1996): 385–389.
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
Depending on what they choose, I will learn how much importance they assign to different principles of tax design. I hope this research, by making more relevant the theory that we tax scholars use to... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
employees were sent, the less they used the treadmill over time. Norton hypothesizes that in this case, social norming moves in the opposite direction, giving employees an excuse not to exercise if their colleagues avoid it as well.... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
of disconnects between theory and reality, such as what leaders say and what they do. Such experiences may help account for the relatively small proportion of employees globally that are satisfied with their jobs. He doesn’t see it... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
a social loss function. Purchase the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13622 New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-093.pdf Componential Theory of Creativity Author:Teresa M. Amabile Abstract The componential theory of creativity is a comprehensive model of the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2000
- Conference Presentation
Motivation, Learning, and Performance Management
By: Dutch Leonard
- autumn 1993
- Article
Motivational Synergy: Toward New Conceptualizations of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in the Workplace
By: T. M. Amabile
The foundation for a model of motivational synergy is presented. Building upon but going beyond previous conceptualizations, the model outlines the ways in which intrinsic motivation (which arises from the intrinsic value of the work for the individual) might interact... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Theory; Creativity; Situation or Environment; Organizational Culture
Amabile, T. M. "Motivational Synergy: Toward New Conceptualizations of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in the Workplace." Human Resource Management Review 3, no. 3 (autumn 1993): 185–201.
- 09 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Is Business School Right for You?
for learning and for using that learning to make a difference in the world, and that’s what makes this all so exciting. As you wait for the cold call to arrive, you wonder how an MBA might fit into your life... View Details
- May 2012
- Article
Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game
By: Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer
In variants of the Electronic Mail Game (Rubinstein, 1989) where two or more players communicate via multiple channels, the multiple channels can facilitate collective action via redundancy, the sending of the same message along multiple paths or else repeatedly along... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Mail Game; Stag Hunt; Coordination; Signaling; Networks; Behavior; Communication; Trust; Game Theory
Coles, Peter A., and Ran Shorrer. "Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game." B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics 12, no. 1 (May 2012).
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
ideas apply in all situations begging for wisdom? For example, David Physick opines that "Different situations require different leadership: sometimes single-minded dogmatism and other times much more collegiate or crowd-based leadership. The good leaders View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett