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  • 1982
  • Article

Children's Artistic Creativity: Detrimental Effects of Competition in a Field Setting

By: T. M. Amabile
Girls whose ages ranged from 7 to 11 years made paper collages during 1 of 2 residential parties. Those in the experimental group were competing for prizes, whereas those in the control group expected that the prizes would be raffled off. Artist-judges later rated each... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Early Childhood Education; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Competition; Teaching
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 28 Feb 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

    switched to a new employer 27 percent left employment to attend college or another post-secondary education program 22 percent returned to high school Five percent were neither working nor in school [div class=infogram-embed... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

    like education planning and account aggregation, advisory firms can strengthen their businesses, shows the study, which Di Maggio cowrote with five collaborators from the investment company Dimensional Fund Advisors. "The issue is, the... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
    • June 2019
    • Article

    Learning From Mum: Cross-National Evidence Linking Maternal Employment and Adult Children’s Outcomes

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Mayra Ruiz Castro and Elizabeth Long Lingo
    Analyses relying on two international surveys from over 100,000 men and women across 29 countries explore the relationship between maternal employment and adult daughters’ and sons’ employment and domestic outcomes. In the employment sphere, adult daughters, but not... View Details
    Keywords: Female Labor Force Participation; Gender Attitudes; Household Labor; Maternal Employment; Social Class; Social Learning Theory; Social Mobility; Employment; Gender; Attitudes; Household; Labor; Learning; Outcome or Result
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    • 29 Apr 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Richard Freeman, Harvard University & NBER

    • 16 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

    work themselves, hold more supervisory responsibilities, and earn higher wages than women whose mothers stayed home full time. “Some asked if children of stay-at-home moms were happier,” McGinn says. “Many decried the research as another... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 23 May 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    The Entrepreneurial Journey of China’s First Private Mental Health Hospital

    Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education
    • Web

    Courses - Entrepreneurship

    total enterprise. There are a variety of entrepreneurship related elective courses to choose from. Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 5 Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 The American Dream and US View Details
    • 21 Feb 2007
    • Op-Ed

    What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

    Botswana, for instance—that the creation of profitable businesses is the key. They provide the jobs, income, and motivation for education and individual development that raise standards of living. Small- and medium-sized domestic... View Details
    Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
    • 03 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

    Glass profile database, which collects work history and education data from various public and private sources. Combined with Dow Jones VentureSource data, the list was winnowed to 14,000 founders of VC-backed companies who listed a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • December 1998
    • Article

    Entrepreneurs and Business Performance in Nineteenth Century France

    By: Tom Nicholas, Elisa Boccaletti and James Foreman-Peck
    A popular explanation for the supposed "delayed industrialisation" of the nineteenth century French economy has been the inappropriate attitudes and actions of the managerial classes and family firms. To address these claims we model the supply and demand for... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance; Economy; Management; Success; Opportunities; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Saving; Higher Education; Training; Demand and Consumers; France
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    • 03 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 4, 2008

      Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data on the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better

    automation but prefer higher levels of automation for others than themselves,” De Freitas says. “This is because they think that they are better at driving than increasingly automated systems. We believe this creates a barrier to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation; Auto
    • 11 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

    applicants hold a bachelor's degree or higher and there are minimum salaries that must be met for positions. Visas are requested by the employer for a specific individual. Microsoft, for example, is the lead actor when it makes an H-1B... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    center of it all. And whether that faith is in organized religion or whether it is in whatever you call a higher power or nature or the divine or what whatever it is, just knowing that you are not the center of it all. We were just saying... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • Web

    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    once flowed automatically to Google Search. After two decades of dominating search, Google’s mission to “organize the world’s information” was now in peril. The company now faced a future in which the world’s queries might bypass it altogether. Citation View Details
    • 1984
    • Book

    Managing Human Assets: The Groundbreaking Harvard Business School Program

    By: Michael Beer, Bert Spector, Paul R. Lawrence and D. Q. Mills
    Keywords: Management; Assets; Higher Education; Programs
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    • 10 Oct 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

    percent higher than before the introduction of the law by 1980. The authors interpret these patterns as “counter-mobilization” bolstered by local news accounts, which eroded the magnitude of Black voters’ gains. What’s more, when the... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 26 Jun 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: June 26, 2007

    Harvard Business School Supplement 207-025 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207025   PublicationsFrom Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace