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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
management case: “How do you try to understand the experiences and motivations of your colleagues and then pull everyone, together, onto a more sustainable path?” Previously in the minority when it came to proposing reforms, school board... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
the company’s larger insight that it didn’t need to be a totally different McDonald’s, just a better one. “We just need to tell more compelling consumer stories, and continue to connect with our customers in a really inspiring, motivating... View Details
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
serious leaders are men and women who are animated by a big, honorable mission, who get things done to achieve that mission, who demonstrate consistent emotional awareness as they do this, who motivate others to try to be better and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
non-financial rewards leverage intrinsic motivation and, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are stronger when their relative value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 4 indicates that effects of indirect agency result from a failure to automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
countries like the US and Germany is that immigration has a tendency to attract those with the strongest motivation to form a new life, learn new skills, and obey the law (especially if illegal entry puts them at special risk of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607082 CommonAngels Harvard Business School Case 807-149 Describes the motivations behind the founding of CommonAngels—a group of successful business owners who provide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get
limited to it. “I especially appreciate time-intensive extracurricular activities,” says Fitzpatrick. “That tells me that they may be able to handle more than the average bear. I look for busy people.” Another example: a history of managing volunteers. “Volunteers are... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
game. It just means that the world economy gets to fire on more cylinders, not just U.S. and European cylinders. What I worry about, and what was a motivation to write this book, is that without a clear picture of what’s happening, then... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subnational regions have gained increasing attention both as a level of analysis and as a level for policy making. This chapter aims to explore what this new context implies for the role of regional governments. It is motivated by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
of different constituents; (4) balancing opportunities and attention; and (5) balancing the motives of human behavior. Management control systems are essential tools used by all managers to achieve their desired profit goals and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
motivating people to change their behavior, from working harder on tasks to engaging in healthier habits. Recent research has examined the residual effects of incentives: by altering behavior, incentives can cause participants to form... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
team-based, seniority-based, and flatter compensation. We propose that compensation is strategic not only in motivating and attracting the worker being compensated, but also in its impact on peer workers and the firm's complementary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
develop the capacity to examine and evaluate individual CSR-oriented actions, a process that requires both an understanding of the motivation behind them and an assessment of their impact on society and on the firm. Second, they need to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
motivations have come together, it seems to me, because stock ownership is now so much more widespread than it once was, as a result of 401(k)s and the like. We won't know for some time whether this marks a defining feature of an emerging... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
over time, is supervision of the continuous process of determining the nature of the enterprise and setting, revising, and attempting to achieve its goals."9 The motivation for these conclusions was supplied by an industry note and... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
five motivations for seeking power—money and status, autonomy, achievement, affiliation, and morality. They explore how these dynamics play out through vivid storytelling, and demystify the essential mechanisms for acquiring and using... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Khan Academy? I know this sounds dorky, but anyone who wants to better understand my long-term thinking and motivation for Khan Academy should read a couple of my favorite books: Foundation, by Isaac Asimov; Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott... View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
motivated both to elicit sympathy and impress others. Despite the belief that combining bragging with complaining or humility confers the benefits of each strategy, we find that humblebragging confers the benefits of neither, instead... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne