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- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
(in a pilot test) and experimental manipulations (Experiments 1, 2a, and 2b), we found that an essentialist mind-set is indeed hazardous for creativity, with the relationship mediated by motivated closed-mindedness (Experiments 2a and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
“Why Competition in the Politics Industry Is Failing America: A strategy for reinvigorating our democracy” in 2017. Their work continues, and is informing, engaging and motivating businesspeople and leaders from across America in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
highly successful businessman, the authors say, should serve as an example of the potential talent companies can uncover when they look beyond job candidates with squeaky-clean credentials and consider giving highly motivated individuals... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
multiple identities in organizations and spark novel research questions in the organizational literature. March 2014 Article Cheating More for Less: Upward Social Comparisons Motivate the Poorly Compensated to Cheat By: Leslie K. John ,... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable
In May 2021, the Twitter account Brands Getting Owned posted images of signs that workers had taped to the windows of a Chipotle in the United States. One large cardboard sign read, “Sorry for the inconvenience, but due to us being... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
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 is higher. Indeed, financial rewards are... View Details
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Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
chart images are available for download. Visit the ICCP website Social Progress Index The Social Progress Index is a rich framework for measuring the multiple dimensions of social progress motivated by the... View Details
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
that diversity is good overall.” What’s driving these decisions? Chang speculates that a behavioral phenomenon known as “loss aversion,” in which people focus on avoiding losses rather than reaping potential gains, might be influencing board recommendations. In other... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
feel malicious envy, they engage in counterproductive work to harm other people,” Brooks says. “They tend to undermine others and try to slow them down.” Revealing failures won’t tarnish your image The HBS team set out to test for levels... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Profiles - MBA
realities. I'm excited to be a Roberts Family Fellow because being surrounded by such dedicated students motivates me to build and innovate; it’s not often you’re among so many individuals who are committed to improving the world, just... View Details
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
traditional rating and ranking system. The new process involved informal monthly meetings between managers and their reports, and it more closely tied bonuses to business performance. Would it serve to motivate employees? Could its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed With Your New Boss
way. Guidance at key strategic breakpoints. Help in staying focused. Turnaround Same as startup plus: More support for making and implementing the tough personnel calls. Support for changing or correcting the external image of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
integrated mill left the market, the price of angle iron collapsed. Once again, the minimills had to move up to the next tier of the industry in order to survive. And so on. At each stage of the minimills' climb up-market, an asymmetry of View Details
- 15 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News
versions, Exley and Judd Kessler, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, took a new approach to exploring reasons people avoid information. Separating excuses from other motives The research, detailed in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
sales managers hire in their own image because how each manager achieved that performance is what got him or her promoted and in a position to hire. But the best results, by far, occur when recruiters can observe the relevant job... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About
tragic mistakes of the past. Published April 26, 2022 Letter from Dean Srikant Datar to the HBS Community on Ukraine The invasion of Ukraine—with the horrific news of lives lost, images of hospitals and apartment buildings hit, and... View Details
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
celebrated the role of private industry in winning the conflict. Together, text and images emphasized the patriotic rather than profiteering motives of a corporation that stood at attention to meet wartime... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
with the whole person? In a service industry, where most jobs can be described as "menial" and entry-level, he retains employees and maintains morale by embodying his belief that "every person is created in God's image and... View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
turns out that the people who created the internet, primarily White men, didn’t classify or tag themselves as anything. This means that when you ask the AI system – which uses information up to the year 2020—to show an image of a white... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis