Publications

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

pants,' " Norton says. "And it keeps going on until finally someone comes out and asks, 'Oh, is he Asian?'" Norton and several colleagues documented this phenomenon in a study that they described in an article for the journal View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

HBR Classics - Alumni

Five Messages Leaders Must Manage , John Hamm The Power of Talk , Deborah Tannen Transforming Corner - Office Strategy into Frontline Action Decision-Making Conquering a Culture of Indecision , Ram Charan Stop Making Plans Start Making... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

leadership style was a critical variable. "On the one hand, the proposition that team leader behavior fosters project success is not surprising," write Edmondson, Bohmer and Pisano. "On the other hand, deeply engrained institutional structures and View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

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Partners - Case Method Project

Boquiren Preuss School La Jolla, CA Subjects: AP U.S. History, Western Civilization and Culture CA 6 of 65 Steven Chai Bakersfield Christian High School Bakersfield, CA Subjects: AP US History, AP US Government CA 7 of 65 Sabrina Chase... View Details

May 2011
Article

The Power of Small Wins

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer

What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an analysis of knowledge workers' diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and... View Details

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

Starbucks in the early- and mid-2000s was one common to many organizations: Could the company continue to grow while preserving its culture and values? In some areas, the drive to expand, egged on by Wall Street, was compromising the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

April 2001 (Revised July 2002)
Case

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (A)

By: Susan M. Fournier, Kerry Herman, Laura Winig and Andrea Carol Wojnicki

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO), a branded and integrated content and media company dedicated to "elevating the role of the homemaker," went public on October 19, 1999, creating a company with a market value of $1.73 billion, and a stake for Stewart worth $1.2... View Details

Keywords: Management; Media; Identity; Personal Characteristics; Brands and Branding; Media and Broadcasting Industry

Educators

19 Mar 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Beyond Gender and Negotiation to Gendered Negotiations

Keywords: by Deborah Kolb & Kathleen L. McGinn

15 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

duties by way of assigning moral agency to business enterprises, we would do better to provide an account of the purpose of the for-profit business enterprises that is not simply about the pursuit of profit. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

nature of what is seen as legitimate leadership in modern society. The origins of psychology and its interest in leadership date back to Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. Many individuals tried to understand what leads certain people to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Mar 2024
News

The War Within

10 to 15 million of the country’s residents will need professional psychological support as a direct result of the conflict. “Trauma has now become a population-wide challenge.” For Ames, the mental health care crisis in Ukraine has been... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

07 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

create an inclusive culture for employees so that they have the psychological safety to be motivated to contribute to the company.” Zou coauthored the paper Inclusive Managers with Ethan Rouen, assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

September–October 1998
Article

How to Kill Creativity

By: T. M. Amabile

The article addresses the topic of business creativity, its benefits, and how managers can inspire it. The author's research shows that it is possible to develop the best of both worlds: organizations in which business imperatives are attended to and creativity... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Situation or Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Management Practices and Processes

September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
Case

Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Fares Khrais and Marilyn Morgan Westner

This case is written to help students explore how companies can maintain and develop trust while innovating, how to identify and respond effectively to warning signs that they may not be as trusted as they believe, and how being trusted can aid in expanding and growing... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Trust; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry

Educators

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

negotiators to speak one another's language. This principle goes beyond understanding technical terms and lingo. It also means catching the nuances and cultural implications behind what's being said, and noticing how the other side uses... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

fall 1997
Article

Motivating Creativity in Organizations: On Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do

By: T. M. Amabile

Creativity in all fields, including business, flourishes under intrinsic motivation- the drive to do something because it is interesting, involving, exciting, satisfying, or personally challenging. This article presents the Componential Theory of Organizational... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Situation or Environment; Organizational Culture

January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
Case

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg

In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details

Educators