Motivation And Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

leadership talent with the attitude, training, and willingness to devote the time to this difficult task of engagement, which can have a significant impact on performance. Too much emphasis on “making the numbers” to the exclusion of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

1996
Book

Creativity in Context

By: T. M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity; Theory; Research; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Organizational Culture; Measurement and Metrics; Personal Characteristics; Cognition and Thinking; Performance; Performance Evaluation; Social Psychology

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30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

It's not often that a best seller inspires academic research. If anything, it's usually the other way around. But Harvard Business School Associate Professor Diego A. Comin was motivated by reading Guns, Germs, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Luís Cabral, NYU Stern School of Business

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution, corporate reporting, and the role of investors in this new... View Details

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

I've experienced first-hand the excitement and pain that come as companies with a few founders scale to hundreds or thousands of employees. At somewhere around 75 to 100 employees, running a business becomes more complicated, demanding... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

in markets, they argue, some are not. Take accounting standards, for example. While it's essential from a standpoint of complete knowledge to have everyone calculating their financials in a comparable and consistent manner, there is no... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change

Keywords: by Chonnikarn Fern Jira & Michael W. Toffel

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

Parties are often motivated to discount and devalue each other's concessions and contributions, because doing so relieves them of the obligation to reciprocate. As a result,... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

late William H. Meckling note these issues: The cost of delegating decision rights to those who have the relevant information but whose motivations and goals don't align with those of the company. The cost... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

experience working at start-ups (two of them by HBS graduates: Blue Apron and Peloton) motivated me to apply to the HBS MBA. I was also excited to apply because of the recently launched MS/MBA: Engineering... View Details

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

long-term interests with short-term pulls, etc. One of the most unexplored areas, which we are only now beginning to be able to measure, is the degree to which people are motivated by the "aerial coin of praise" View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

05 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

haircuts?), are scheduled to debut in 2013. Johnson expects the transformation to be complete by 2015. "All department stores either rise or fall on their ability to execute a strategy," Lal says. "These are great ideas, but the ability to execute day in View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

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V.G. Narayanan | About

research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives. He uses field experiments to understand how firms can use incentives and... View Details

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

consultants in a wide range of organizations, and they had taught in executive education for years. I had neither a consulting nor a teaching background. Walking to class, knowing that more than 90 executives were waiting for my wisdom, I... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

What do you do when the people with whom you are negotiating act in ways that can best be called counterproductive? Before throwing up your hands, take a deep breath and ask yourself 3 questions. Do these people lack good information? Are... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

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Maha Malik

passionate about making," Maha says. "I came to HBS to learn how to make the changes I want to see in the world. HBS is a great place to learn how to operationalize decisions, how to manage incentives that can push people View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

that being personally chosen by a sponsor as a protégé could serve as an important vote of confidence; and two, the idea that sponsors’ compensation being linked to protégé outcomes might serve as further View Details