Motivation - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2021
Blog Post

A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

student. Write the check to that organization. Push your team harder on issues of race. It all matters. What advice do you have for the next co-presidents? Bukie: Lean on your team. We are able to do what we can because of an amazing leadership team—people who are just... View Details

23 Feb 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

living in that complex, it’s an overwhelming success,” he says. His big break: “I won the lucky parent lottery and ended up in the right house, with the right father and the right mother. They created a safe place in a neighborhood that was going through some... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

options to assist people with substance use issues. Then he learned that there were better treatments available—a category of interventions known as contingency management, which offer motivational incentives for staying sober. “But no... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

across a far-flung network of operations, and motivating everyone with a clear understanding of the new company’s mission. Add to those formidable tasks the steep learning curve Parker faced by moving from the service-based rigors of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

December 1998 (Revised February 1999)
Case

City of Charlotte (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

The city manager's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, is attempting to align and focus the city's programs and operating departments. City managers, working collaboratively with the elected mayor and city council, have identified five strategic themes to make... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Government Administration; City; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Public Sector; Management Teams; Programs; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; North Carolina

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01 Dec 2017
News

Leadership in Practice

to teach,” says Dawson. “To Dean Nitin Nohria’s credit, HBS’s approach is evolving in a very creative way. Business leaders need to inspire trust, they have to be able to read people, and they need to know how to motivate others to do... View Details

22 Sep 2015
News

Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education

really want to learn and giving them access to high-quality education. I realized that I felt very motivated to make sure that was something that was possible. “I now have launched and am running a new education impact-venture-investing... View Details

November 2002
Background Note

Strategy and Sources of Motion Picture Finance, The

By: Mihir A. Desai, Gabriel J. Loeb and Mark Veblen

This case considers the alternative financing mechanisms for film financing, the evolution of film finance in the United States, and the nature of tax-motivated film financing in the United States and around the world. It develops the strategy driving motion picture... View Details

Keywords: Film Entertainment; Financial Instruments; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Globalized Markets and Industries; Taxation; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

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18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

differences, clearly public entrepreneurs are ultimately responsible to and accountable to voters, citizens, people living in the community. And that’s different from being mainly responsible to private stakeholders and private customers. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Effort or Timing: The Effect of Lump-Sum Bonuses Authors:Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This article addresses the question of whether lump-sum bonuses motivate salespeople to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

why leaders are inherently important to the improvement-oriented voice process—because leaders are the targets of voice. If they send signals that they are open, interested, and willing to act on subordinate voice, it is logical to expect that subordinates' View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

value and maintaining control of the enterprise—what I call the Rich vs. King dilemma. Rich vs. King is central for two reasons. First, data that I analyzed with Dr. Tim Butler of HBS and that I detail in the book show that Rich and King dominate the top View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

about their savings. ©iStock/GaryPhoto “We thought this idea might work really well in a retirement savings context,” Beshears explained. “Fidelity, for example, has a ‘People Like Me’ campaign that operates in this way. We were motivated... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

15 Dec 2024
News

Crucible: Give It Up

perspective on life that I didn’t have before this all happened. My wife and I are both in good health now, but the takeaways from that time are still very fresh. A couple of years ago, I chose to work at a smaller venture and to focus on creating impact. Now I reflect... View Details

Keywords: Mark Adams; Illustration by Caroline Tomlinson

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Set Your Recruiting Vision for 2020

motivates employees and how that can be communicated in your recruiting process. Learn more strategies to “get to yes” based on a recent HBS research study focused on what matters most to students when evaluating job offers. Goal: Build a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

11 Aug 2015
Blog Post

From Britain to Boston: Two Years at HBS

internationally. I consider personal background and culture more when I analyze people’s decisions which has helped me to understand people’s motivations better. What advice do you have to someone thinking of applying? Just apply. I never... View Details

05 Dec 2016
Blog Post

5 Pieces of Advice for Applying to HBS

Marr (MBA 2016), Sam Travers (MBA 2016), Ryan Hansen (MBA 2017), Leslie Moser (MBA 2015), Terrance Rogers (MBA 2017), and Peter Nolan (MBA 2017) had to say about applying to business school. 1. Be your authentic self Stephanie: Be honest and genuine. I spent time... View Details

04 Jun 2008
News

Whistle While You Work

also has a famous second career, that of motivational speaker. In that role, Zander has appeared several times at the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as at old-age homes, middle schools, Fortune 500 corporations, and now HBS. Music... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

April 2011
Teaching Note

Office of Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (TN)

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

Teaching Note for 611057. View Details

Keywords: Patents; Rights; Infrastructure; Multinational Firms and Management; Research and Development; Complexity; Commercialization; Technology Adoption; Motivation and Incentives; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Shanghai

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April 2002
Article

Internal Capital Markets and Firm-Level Compensation Incentives for Division Managers

By: Julie Wulf

Do multidivisional firms structure compensation contracts for division managers to mitigate incentive problems in their internal capital markets? I find evidence that compensation and investment incentives are substitutes: firms providing a stronger link to firm... View Details