Motivation and Incentives - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

enthusiasm for the course may have been motivated in part by current events: The first year there were 30 students; a year later, after receiving a top student rating, Moss faced significant overenrollment. But Moss’s enthusiasm was for... View Details

Keywords: April White

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

financial stability? Do the banking and shadow banking sectors contribute to financial instability? Do novel financial products contribute to instability? Governance, Incentives, and Culture How important... View Details

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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

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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

Dean Datar on the shootings in Atlanta and violence against Asian Americans Throughout the day, details of last night’s tragic shootings in Atlanta have been coming into sharper focus. While the motivations... View Details

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

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

values/value systems , ethics , moral leadership Interviews Ian Fuhr Robert Brozin Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow Research Interests : bank debt ,... View Details

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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

Alumnae Circles to a new region requires strong, motivated volunteer leaders and enough alumnae interested in joining. If you are interested in learning more, please email circles@hbs.edu . Tip: Keep your... View Details

26 Nov 2019
News

The Ritual Effect

Source: Norton Source: Norton Professor Michael Norton studies the ways in which rituals can influence human behavior. In his research, he has found that people establish rituals to enhance their enjoyment of something or to improve their success View Details

Keywords: rituals

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

be concerned with producing elites who are motivated by something beyond the pursuit of self-interest under the laws of the marketplace, or the fear of punishment under the laws of the land? A self-interested, self-indulgent corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

personally and professionally, and why he just trademarked it. You were able to trademark the term "FOMO" recently. What motivated you to take this step? "I coined the term... View Details

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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

might include: How do entrepreneurs in emerging markets build world-class brands? Why and how do entrepreneurs in emerging markets think about 'going global'? Are the motivating factors for them different... View Details

28 Oct 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)

program for youth living in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. This work was deeply gratifying, and it also helped me realize that in order to be most effective and drive scalable impact, I needed to build... View Details

02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

success"). The importance of choice varies from one culture to another, particularly between "individualist" (where it is more important) and "collectivist" societies. This means that no one approach to organizing... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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

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

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

trying to solve who gets capital in a world where you don’t know who the good managers are and who the bad managers are. Most of what you observe of finance in the world is a manifestation or a reaction to the central problem of creating... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

attracted to the military and what it represents – discipline, camaraderie, and service over self. The tragedy of September 11, 2001 also motivated me to join the military. My... View Details

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

from people who have been traditionally hiring men,” explains Himabindu Lakkaraju, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. “They review men and give high rankings to men, and then men are always... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

21 Nov 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

in order to create a sustainable practice. Her philosophy, her message, is very motivating and inspiring because what she says is every small step you take is better than no action at all. Q: She has a... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion

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