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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
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 ourselves." Senior Lecturer... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
volunteer projects, a school partnership program that allows employees to take off up to eight hours per month to volunteer, and frequent food and clothing collection drives. John Ince: One World, my company, is a nonprofit devoted to... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
those posing questions about how we should think about "just enough." Bill Thompson put in words what a number of the respondents seemed to assume when he said, "I believe that the current, quasi-obscene disparities [in income] between top management and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
order to build and grow teams that they understand and can help motivate over time to deliver.” Now back in Dearborn, Michigan, Fields works with what’s become an emerging and increasingly high-profile issue for global managers,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
by $100 billion spent annually on management consulting and training. Yet that message doesn’t always get to the people who need it most: fewer than half of public-facing employees are well versed in these grand strategic ideas when it... View Details
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
or product doing what is, on balance, good for the business? Will their identification with an issue attract more customers than it drives away? Will it attract the kind of employee who shares the values implied by the CEO’s position? Of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
James Reinhart
but it was never unexpected for Reinhart who started his first venture when he was 10 years old. He lined up lawn-mowing customers all over his New Jersey neighborhood and then motivated friends to tend to the lawns. He charged $15 per... View Details
- 10 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Become a Value Creator
staff member receive credit for good ideas not only makes the employee feel valued and motivates him or her to come up with better ideas in the future, but also makes the leader look good. The purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
advantage of their weaknesses and blind spots. First, it helps to evaluate whether a competitor will be motivated to respond. Second, it identifies whether that competitor has the ability to do so effectively. As coauthors Clayton M.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
that restructuring addresses is very large—in the billions of dollars possibly. My research at companies suggests there are three primary motivations for restructuring. The first is the need to address poor financial performance. Here,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
of organizational alignment—the primary focus of this book—the enterprise must also align its employees and management processes with the strategy. Having aligned and integrated strategies at all organizational units yields little if... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
stronger. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers (revised) Authors:David I. Levine and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Investment This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
than 35 Israeli-Jordanian and Israeli- Egyptian joint ventures are already up and running. Why are top Middle Eastern business leaders now seeking out strategic alliances with their neighbors? What benefits can regional cooperation at the company level bring about? In... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, and employee buyouts. Currently, he is studying... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage intrinsic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
guide. Clear articulation of values and principles helps employees choose among alternatives in a consistent manner. "One Cemex, we are only one Cemex," CEO Lorenzo Zambrano declared to me. The Mexican company is one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
world-beating performances out of some good-but-not-great players and even to motivate others to take pay cuts in order to play for him, an anomaly? Can unusually gifted managers improve employees’ performance to such an extent that it is... 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
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business," she says. Dear Diary As a way to delve deeper into the link between motivation and creativity,... View Details