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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
motivating people to change their behavior, from working harder on tasks to engaging in healthier habits. Recent research has examined the residual effects of incentives: by altering behavior, incentives can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
or liking both scholarly documentary films and action-packed thrillers. However, when predicting other consumers’ tastes for the same items, people believe that a preference for one precludes enjoyment of the dissimilar other. Five... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
my research, and the research of others tells me the process he envisioned is not inevitable. I saw counterexamples of innovative large companies both historically and in more recent times. People often forget that when Apple launched the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen
Sergio says. "My number one motivation was to change the trajectory of my career and my life. I saw HBS as an opportunity to explore my options and figure out where to go next with my ambition of using business to positively... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ahmed Farag
I am torn between two worlds. Born in a place where people are forgotten, I often contemplate how I can serve as a beacon of hope. Yet, I have escaped to another world, where I can propel my own happiness. Alone in the darkness, the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
Frances Frei and Francesca Gino (Image by John Ritter) Frances Frei, the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, is an expert in the intersection of leadership and inclusion. Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration, studies how... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
long-term interests with short-term pulls, etc. One of the most unexplored areas, which we are only now beginning to be able to measure, is the degree to which people are motivated by the "aerial coin... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
absolute terms, but then when you think about all that sugar, it’s a bigger deal” Slated to be published in an upcoming edition of Psychological Science, The Effect of Graphic Warnings on Sugary Drink Purchasing is the first real-world test to determine whether warning... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
influence the perceptions that people have about a place in a way that is conducive to their goals. This background note lays the ground for instructors to expose students to the concept of a place brand, allow them to examine the ways in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
means productivity. Productivity is at the heart of the framework, because it is seen as the critical driver of long-term sustainable prosperity, the outcome that is seen as the relevant ultimate objective of economic policy. This is an important point because many... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
tough spot," Lal says. "If you ask people today what J.C. Penney stands for, you don't get a particularly compelling answer." Once a staple for everything from bed sheets to children's clothing, many shoppers now associate the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
the profession. Journalists are asking, Whom do we serve? How do we know what people think is important? Any good reader-revenue strategy has to be built around a real understanding of the audience and what View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
spells. Money Is a Creativity Motivator. The experimental research that has been done on creativity suggests that money isn’t everything. In the diary study, we asked people, “To what extent were you motivated by rewards today?” Quite... View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
for instance, might argue that capitalism ignores issues of fairness in outcomes—but they can't say that it doesn't exist. “Our task is not to take immoral people and make them moral. Our task is to add texture to the dominant ethical... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to the JD/MBA Program
I thought the JD would give me a rigorous academic framework to engage with policies and regulations, and the MBA would give me a diverse network and allow me to think about real life management problems. Bhargav: I'm motivated by the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
more effective negotiator, and motivating great work from others. Here are the Top 10 articles and Top 10 working papers that appeared in HBS Working Knowledge in 2010. Now turn your attention to 2011 and tell us in the Comment section... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
problems are Embraer's partnerships trying to overcome?" As a company, conference participants said, Embraer had made a number of smart moves. Its human resources strategy was rejuvenated for flexibility, so people were View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
the beginning Why do people take such a risk when there's plenty of other money out there? Because [friends-and-family] money is too easy to obtain, which encourages people to start marginal businesses.... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman