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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Employees crave meaningful progress in their work and find joy in making an impact

“Even incremental small wins can contribute to what we call positive inner work life,” says Teresa Amabile, Baker Foundation Professor. Amabile’s current research focuses on the psychology of everyday work life: how events in the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Incentives and Operational Excellence

video they wanted was out of stock. Retailers typically buy videocassettes from studios for $45 each and rent them for $4. Tapes are disposed of for $5 after three months, so the retailer must rent the tape at least ten times to break even. The View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Preserving Patagonia

model and other market-based models ultimately attract billions of dollars of incremental investment capital to conservation," Adams says. "The remaining pristine places in the world need and deserve all the help they can get." (Published... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
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Ink: The Three-Step Startup

three-step process, and you can’t skip the second step. Solve is an iterative process. You will not get it right the first time. So iterate, test hypotheses, invest small amounts of resources at first, and make incremental progress to the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 04 Dec 2020
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Hour by Hour

issues that contribute to turnover. The company has also recently started applying relationship management to former applicants and current employees. Morris has long understood the ways shift changes, small, incremental wage increases,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

addiction treatment alone, but administering a program that tracks an individual’s healthy behaviors, and provides incremental rewards along the way, was difficult in traditional treatment settings. From those conversations came... View Details
Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Jun 2004
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The Ambidextrous Organization

radical or disruptive innovations while pursuing incremental gains. A business does not have to escape its past to renew itself for the future. Of utmost importance to the ambidextrous organization are ambidextrous managers — executives... View Details
Keywords: ambidextrous manager; ambidextrous organization; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect

were looking for ideas with potential to revolutionize the field quickly. “We tell our scientists, ‘Dare to be great. Bring us the projects that you can’t get funded elsewhere.’ We don’t want safe, incremental science. We’re not looking... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
  • 01 Jun 2014
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Roads to Recovery

Step Forward: Incremental Improvement In 2000, Amtrak and the Pennsylvania Department of Trans-portation resolved to make the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia train route "auto-competitive" by 2015. That goal is within reach, thanks to modest... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 01 Sep 2015
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Case Study: Golden Ticket

incremental basis will be challenging. —Steven Chien (MBA 1996) I would go vertical. When I walk through the gate and have a digital experience, I want the rest of it! After conquering the “total customer delight” experience, I would... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2022
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Savings and Loam

use marginal farmland. “The reason that’s critical is because it’s an important source of incremental income for a farm,” Cummings explains. He wants to support the Davids of the sustainable food world that have long lived in the shadows... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

with our students. That kind of interaction would make a deep and valuable impression. Hall: We need to show our students how incremental errors of judgment can lead down a slippery slope to a whole heap of trouble. In addition to having... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Mar 2009
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HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

will make important incremental investments to offset the effects of the downturn (for example, increasing our support to students in their job searches). Finally, we will seek out opportunities to strengthen our long-term position.” To... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 18 Apr 2011
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Capitalism Meets Conservation

market-based model you can attract vast amounts of capital to sectors that were historically funded by the government and/or NGO sectors. What we’re doing with conservation capitalism is parallel with that. We hope this new market-based model attracts billions of... View Details
Keywords: Accommodation; Hospitality; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Sep 2012
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Curb Your Smartphone Habit

them feel too vulnerable. The list is long. So what makes people change their minds and embrace the process? We developed a process, which is described in the book, but much of it has to do with small units of predictable time off and facilitated check-ins aimed at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Mar 2014
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Insight: Yenball

"Making incremental revenue—in other words, commercializing—that's secondary," notes Greyser. "I would be surprised if any major league club made a signing decision with the thought that commercialization is going to be an important... View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; Masahiro Tanaka; Hideki Matsui; Isao Okada; business of sports; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden

what to do. You ask them questions, engage in dialogues. Key elements in evaluating a business proposal I look for something that has a major impact on the area that it's supposed to affect — major cost savings, speed improvement, major time savings, or ability to do... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

confronted with setbacks. Yet in a survey of 669 managers around the world, “progress” ranked dead last as a perceived source of employee motivation, falling behind more expected (but less effective) carrots such as bonuses and promotions. “Even View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 01 Jun 2018
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The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models

pricing models? DN: It all boils down to customer insights—and then choosing your offline strategy to conform to what you’re learning from your consumers online. But I think the answer is that incremental adjustments to the in-store... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance and solar energy to organic food and wine, ecotourism, and outdoor clothing. Strategies pursued range... View Details
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