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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Beer, the School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
Employee well-being. CEOs were concerned about their employees: their safety on the job; overall well-being; and their own task as leaders of “keeping up morale and managing people’s fears.” Having to make decisions under uncertainty... View Details
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
trying to establish the first hospital in the 1980s, as well as the motivations that helped him persevere. Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Founder of MphasiS and Value and Budget Housing Corporation, explains how years of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
better service experience,” she relates, “that’s the path to all-around excellence.” A central premise of Uncommon Service is that to achieve service excellence, you may need to make some tradeoffs. Is that a hard sell for some managers who are View Details
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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
and more than half of the companies on the S&P 500 in 2000 no longer exist. Many of these firms had sound strategies but were unable to execute them effectively. With disruptive technologies, increasing global competition, changing customer preferences, heightened... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
about Coworkers' Effort Influences Individual Productivity Authors:Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats Abstract Drawing on theoretical insights from research on social comparison processes, this article explores how managers can use performance feedback to sustain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
appealing for students who come from the armed forces and nontraditional business backgrounds who are seeking to build technical skills.” Banks offer excellent training opportunities for motivated students who bring valuable leadership... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
probabilities, a familiar truth to anyone who has ever bought a lottery ticket. "On average people won $5, but the possibility of winning $100 was far more motivating than just giving people that $5," says John. That condition also took... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
responsibility (CSR) strategy. From interviewing scores of employees and executives, it was clear that storytelling was somewhere at the core of it all, she says. Take, for example, Marvel’s 2018 blockbuster Black Panther. The film was... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
core assets, such as brand reputation or employee morale. In the paper CSR initiatives are explored in three "theatres." Theatre 1 includes activities primarily motivated by charitable instincts, even though... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
case:http://hbr.org/search/612091-PDF-ENG Dovernet Robert L. Simons and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 112-061 This case illustrates the implications of using stringent performance measurement systems to create performance pressure, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008): 78-84 Abstract Motivating employees begins with recognizing that to do their best work, people must be in an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
of Uncommon Service is that to achieve service excellence, you may need to make some tradeoffs. Is that a hard sell for some managers who are motivated to excel in all areas? A: Frei: Even superstar managers would probably admit to being... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
rules, and agreements to the governance process. Discusses the roles of three structures in family business governance: the top management team, the family employee council, and the board of directors. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Case 609-080 At Precision Electro-Tek's mobile phone manufacturing facility in southern China, thousands of operators—bright and capable young men and (mostly) women like Jieliang Hao—are motivated to improve line productivity through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
we’ll highlight employee surveillance, assumptions of value neutrality, and right to privacy issues, among others. This article features a timeline of important moments in tech history for further engagement. Let’s expand our... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
disallow photography or recordings. The strategy has superficial appeal: It protects employees and other customers who often don’t want to be captured for posterity. And if such a policy even slightly reduces the likelihood of a... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Chasing a Dream: My Summer Internship at Chelsea Football Club
Marketing Officer. Moving from being solely a Chelsea fan to a Chelsea employee over these three months has been truly exceptional! What motivated you to pursue an internship at Chelsea FC, and how did you... View Details