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- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
one an overland trip across four African countries that culminated in volunteer work at a university in Mauritius. These were two totally different experiences, but with the same impact: They gave DiDonna some real separation from his work, and reminded him what it was... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
motivation is really to help others. And my faith definitely helps, because from my faith perspective, God loves us for who we are and not for what we do. And so if I'm really believing that my security is not based on, oh, look at me,... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
"Are you Tim Perzyk? And was a gentleman named Richard Perzyk, who died about 70 years ago at the end of World War II, your grandfather?" At which point, I felt that Piero had shared enough information to clearly have some insight into my family history, but I was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
larger purpose of motivating value creation. Healy: One of the things that strikes me is we have a whole set of alumni who are really outstanding people with excellent values. We have so many graduates who are powerful role models — at... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
practice-first project. One of our principal motivations is to develop a set of loan products that will not only help people grow their livelihoods but also to do so in a manner that is profitable and therefore scalable. Roth: The second... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
profits with social purpose to confront inequality, inner-city blight, and ecological degradation, while navigating restrictive laws and authoritarian regimes. He found that these leaders were motivated by bedrock values and sometimes―but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
ten. Even TAM call centers are staffed with temporary operators fluent in the languages of the Cup teams. All of which seems like a lot to ask of a 39-year-old CEO who celebrated her first anniversary on the job last month. But Sender says she's View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Being in a period of indecision may be uncomfortable, but it’s not necessarily a bad thing.” Terrana says she learned that what motivated her fifteen years ago — her career, primarily — had changed to encompass family, friends, greater... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
what motivated her to write The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. “I think stories are the best way to reach people you otherwise couldn’t,” she says. “But storytelling is just a start; you then have to mobilize people and support the push for... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
respect that comes with them. I’m talking about something as mundane as going for a jog.” In an interview with Fortune, Mason addressed his motivation for speaking out. “It became obvious through the week that people needed to hear from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
situations—gives them energy and motivation to fill out housing applications or job applications that they simply didn’t have before.” What does your role at ArtLifting involve? “A little bit of everything! As COO, my job is to work... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
children. Second, I believed it was essential to actively recruit and help tenure other bright, motivated women scholars and teachers for the HBS faculty. Where did you find the inner resources to persevere in an era when there were so... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
game. It just means that the world economy gets to fire on more cylinders, not just U.S. and European cylinders. What I worry about, and what was a motivation to write this book, is that without a clear picture of what’s happening, then... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
research and interviewing women executives who attended a program held at the School in the early 1980s, Hart enlisted the help of HBS professor Teresa Amabile, an expert in creativity and motivation and a director of Research at the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
people would still find it useful to cooperate. Those questions motivated me really early on, but I had a very vague sense of it. My dissertation at Harvard was just an algorithm for solving mathematical programming problems as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
are derived from a study of 238 knowledge workers in seven companies across three industries. For an average of about four months, participants were asked to complete a confidential daily diary form asking them to assess their perceptions, emotions, and View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
me because I live and breathe it every day and it motivates me to keep on pushing. JH: During his tenure as CEO of Vodafone, Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990) transformed the telco into a truly global organization through organic growth and... View Details