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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
As a way to delve deeper into the link between motivation and creativity, Amabile and her husband, psychologist Steven J. Kramer, conducted a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
managers are making strides toward finding new career models that better suit their reality. If not the "perfect answer" to the parenting/ career dichotomy, their approach at least validates their dual desire to care for their families and use their MBA skills in ways... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
Who Benefits from Bonuses? Over the past decade, senior corporate executives have been earning record-high bonuses in record-high numbers. What accounts for this striking increase? Do bonuses motivate executives and enhance organizational... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Getting on Board
specific skills and impartial judgment.” Stautberg and Carolyn Chin (MBA ’71) were featured speakers at a recent HBS Club of Greater New York presentation on board membership strategies. Chin, a consultant and professional options trader,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
leveraged, interconnected, and therefore vulnerable to shocks; inadequate rule of law and protection for property rights and contracts; underperforming education systems; massive internal and international migration motivated by income... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
years.” Similarly, he says, the company has developed scientific leadership from within: “We invested substantially to develop the careers of brilliant scientists who joined us early in their professional lives, helping them to address... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
I'm incredibly proud to do my small part in sustaining that institution and to do what I can to leave HBS in a better place for those who follow. How long have you served on the Alumni Board, and what motivated you to accept the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A United Front
professional sports. Ferguson's talents include deft management and motivation of some of the world's greatest (and most high-strung) athletes, staying current on the latest training regimens and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Scott C. Bolick
Student Association president, Bolick has put his personal imprimatur on the Army's notion of motivating people and achieving results. Above all, he remembers the encouragement of that Army instructor who reinforced his belief that people... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
successfully offer products that are meaningfully different. As a result, Moon writes a book about business that does not read like a business book. What motivated you to write Different at this point in your career? Well, for quite a... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Helping the Unemployed Find Work and Self-Esteem
In the late 1990s, when the UK recruitment firm started in 1960 by his father, Sir Alec Reed, won a government contract to provide welfare-to-work employment services, James Reed (MBA 1990) knew success would require some innovative thinking. “Our strength was placing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Job Hunting in a Tight Market: Strength in Numbers
career coach throughout their searches. The reason? Job hunters learn from each other’s strategies, help each other, and help motivate their comrades. The average résumé is reviewed for only ten seconds. Résumés should have a summary... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
policy, officials asked Ashraf to conduct research on how to change men’s preferences for having more children. “So I’m piloting projects on that right now,” she said. Ashraf is one of a small number of HBS faculty who pursue experimental field research. For her, it’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge vault about building a business in a down economy, motivating the troops, and other current topics. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6232.html. Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards? Why do... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
motivator for exiled businessman Ali Allawi (MBA ’71) to return to Iraq in the fall of 2003 to serve in the new government. After a disappointing two and one-half years, he left Baghdad for his home in London, disillusioned with the Iraqi... View Details
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
course. "I think every parent whose child is diagnosed with autism becomes an advocate to some extent," she says. "Everyone goes to the walks, but there are a handful of people who want to take their professional training and use their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Enterprise Visionary
John’s original objectives was to motivate young graduates to go to work in the nonprofit sector as their first or second job, and he has certainly done that at HBS,” says Rangan. — Deborah Blagg View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Class of 2007 Fellowship Awarded
competitive spirit. Section pride really helped motivate people to give,” said Michelle Grzan, who served as cochair of the class gift with Elizabeth Wesson. Sections A, B, and H each reached 100 percent participation. View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
percent) were in management and another 37 percent were in professional positions such as accounting, law, medicine, engineering, and finance. The report attributed the shortage to emigration of highly skilled workers, immigration... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman