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  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

what motivates others and appeal effectively to it, is most important in the United States and Europe at this point in time. It will become more important in Asia as living standards improve, knowledge workers become more important,... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
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Finance - Faculty & Research

timely recognition of firms' ESG improvements and motivate better long-term commitments. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ; Public Opinion ; Environmental Sustainability ; Corporate Governance ; Investment Citation... View Details
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Stagnation (12) Economic Systems (14) Economics (393) Economy (16) Education (118) Emerging Markets (14) Emotions (21) Employee Ownership (1) Employee Relationship Management (61) View Details
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

whether perceived inequity from wealth that is randomly or subjectively assigned leads individuals to cross ethical boundaries through helping or hurting others. The results show that dishonest behavior is influenced by positive and negative inequity that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

actual ESG performance, which can prompt timely recognition of firms' ESG improvements and motivate better long-term commitments. Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ; Public Opinion ; Environmental Sustainability ;... View Details
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Thomaz Galvao

Putting his ideals into action, Thomaz became the co-founder, in 2016, of the McKinsey Black Network in Brazil, an organization that grew from two consultants to sixteen in the two years he worked with the firm. After working at McKinsey, and View Details
  • 15 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox

Keywords: by Tobias Fredberg, Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote & Flemming Norrgren
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

Leadership Top-down Participative Focus Structure and systems Culture Planning Programmatic Emergent Motivation Incentives lead Incentives lag Consultants Large/ knowledge-driven Small/ process-driven That is, each of them does promote... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • 13 Jun 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

Employees with outgoing personalities may seem like they could charm their way to the top of any company. But there’s a down side to being the life of the party, according to new research: People often assume their extroverted colleagues... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

employers. Some couldn’t do what they’re doing without the opportunity. Employers appear to be less enthusiastic about remote work. Many feel that they have to offer it in order to access talent that would not otherwise be approachable. Although View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

advocating for the action plan, they should again ask for input about the pros and cons. This helps employees feel as if they own the plan, which, in turn, motivates them to do their part to help it succeed.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

has a dark side, and if employees aren’t careful about how and when they express it, it can turn off colleagues or even make them feel threatened, according to new research. “You can’t just express passion and expect it will be jolly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 May 2016
  • First Look

May 31, 2016

for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is low. Objective: To determine whether View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo and Xina Li
Prior research has documented that during mortality-related crises workers face psychic costs and are motivated to make social contributions. In addition, management practices that encourage workers to make social contributions during a crisis create value for firms.... View Details
Keywords: Crisis; Social Contributions; Work From Home (WFH); Cannot Work From Home (CWFH); Social Distancing; Online Communities; Coronavirus; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management
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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
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

bores you, and which the world does not need—this life is hell. —W.E.B. Du Bois In the organizational context, the four-drive theory implies that every person, from the CEO to the most junior employee will bring a predictable set of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
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HBR Classics - Alumni

Gabarro, Robert J. Lees Wild West of Executive Coaching , Stratford Sherman, Alyssa Freas Motivating Others Employee Motivation Moving Mountains One More Time Negotiating with... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

because the goals conflict,” Sucher says. Means: A company’s means are not merely its business methods, but whether it takes “the fair path to get there,” Sucher says, in creating equitable practices for employees and communicating with... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

create a method of sales management that encompassed all aspects of selling, from the calculation of quotas and commission rates to the motivation of discouraged salesmen. This excerpt looks at one aspect of the Patterson method: the... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

  PublicationsThe Power of Small Wins Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract What is the best way to motivate employees to do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne