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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Self-awareness is important if you want to be a good general manager
environmental engineering and his graduate degree in advanced polymer chemistry, but he wants to go into general management, a direction an HBS class in authentic leadership development solidified: “It helps you discover your true north,... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior
By: Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn
While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: Research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Research; Behavior; Happiness; Motivation and Incentives
Anik, Lalin, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn. "Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-012, August 2009.
- 2010
- Chapter
Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior
By: L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton and E. W. Dunn
While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Cost vs Benefits; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Outcome or Result; Relationships; Research; Behavior; Happiness; Motivation and Incentives
Anik, L., L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn. "Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior." In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity, edited by D. M. Oppenheimer and C. Y. Olivola. Psychology Press, 2010.
- August 2022
- Article
Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions
By: Alexander MacKay
The optimal duration of a supply contract balances the costs of reselecting a supplier against the costs of being matched to an inefficient supplier when the contract lasts too long. I develop a structural model of contract duration that captures this tradeoff and... View Details
Keywords: Supply Contracts; Intermediate Goods; Switching Costs; Vertical Relationships; Transaction Costs; Contract Duration; Identification; Supply Chain; Cost; Contracts; Auctions; Mathematical Methods
MacKay, Alexander. "Contract Duration and the Costs of Market Transactions." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 14, no. 3 (August 2022): 164–212.
- 2014
- Conference Presentation
The Good Ship Theseus: The Effect of Valence on Object Identity Judgments
By: J. De Freitas, K. Tobia, J. E. Newman and J. Knobe
- Article
Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
Social decision mechanisms that admit dominant strategies and result in Pareto optima are characterized by the class of mechanisms proposed by Groves. The concept of decision mechanisms is generalized and the characterization is shown to extend to these cases. View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods." Econometrica 45, no. 2 (March 1977): 427–438.
- November 23, 2021
- Article
The Nasdaq Mandate Will Expand Diversity in Business—and That’s Good for Business
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Andrea Silbert
As The Boston Club’s corporate census has identified, Massachusetts is moving the needle on the advancement of women and people of color in the business community. In our work, we measure this data year after year, and we are seeing incremental progress, but it is... View Details
Keywords: Women; Equity; Board; Diversity; Race; Gender; Measurement and Metrics; Policy; Massachusetts
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Andrea Silbert. "The Nasdaq Mandate Will Expand Diversity in Business—and That’s Good for Business." Boston Globe (November 23, 2021), A.8.
- 06 Jun 2018
- News
How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle
- 1992
- Chapter
Designing Organizations that Have Good Fit: A Framework for Understanding New Architectures
By: M. Tushman and D. Nadler
Keywords: Organizational Design
- Article
Why Good People Do Bad Things: A Retrospective on the Hubble Fiasco
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and B. Stein
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and B. Stein. "Why Good People Do Bad Things: A Retrospective on the Hubble Fiasco." Academy of Management Executive 7, no. 4 (November 1993): 58–62.
- 23 Aug 2021
- News
Power Can Be Abused, Scholars Say, or Harnessed for the Greater Good
- 24 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It
Who wouldn't want to work for a company that values passion? And what employer wouldn't seek an employee who’s deeply passionate about their work? But, here's the rub, according to recent research from Harvard Business School: Employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- February 2013
- Teaching Note
Fonterra (TN)
By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman
Teaching Note for Fonterra View Details
- June 6, 2018
- Article
How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don't Get Lost in the Shuffle
By: Teresa M. Amabile, Dana Vashdi, E. Miron-Spektor and Vered Holzmann
Amabile, Teresa M., Dana Vashdi, E. Miron-Spektor, and Vered Holzmann. "How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don't Get Lost in the Shuffle." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 6, 2018).
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
four-drive ecosystem Acquire/Achieve On the organizational level this drive is usually met through the compensation and rewards system. Best practices include: Pay as well as competitors. There can be exceptions; the need to acquire... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 03 Mar 2021
- News
Sick Days Don’t Look So Good Now That You Can Work From Home
- September 2004
- Article
Too Much of A Good Thing? The Role of Choice in Negotiation"
By: Michael Wheeler
Wheeler, Michael. Too Much of A Good Thing? The Role of Choice in Negotiation"." Negotiation 7, no. 9 (September 2004).