Motivating People - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2011
News

Taking That Hill

sought challenging environments, and I get a lot of pleasure when people say they want to take that hill, and we take that hill together.” As PPG’s growth surges internationally, it’s overseas where new and different hills are... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Manufacturing; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

Portrait Project

Laila Kassis

their work and their community, has motivated me to provide such opportunity for disenfranchised people by promoting entrepreneurship. I want to give aspiring entrepreneurs the skills and courage to try and... View Details

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting (Working Paper) A working paper made the Top 10! For decades, goal setting has been promoted as a halcyon pill for improving employee motivation and performance... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

structure the organization, design jobs, and allocate roles and responsibilities—that shape how people who work in the organization experience their jobs. Second, leaders engage in symbolic actions—through the stories they tell, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

her research. New Business: Teresa, tell us about the general context of your research. Teresa Amabile: With all the focus entrepreneurs and business executives place on strategy, they can lose sight of the people "in the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile

26 Jan 2016
News

The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)

about how people think and what motivates them, and I was completely wrong. It really inspired me to create and facilitate a work environment where people are inspired and... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan

Having grown up in Pakistan, Tarim Wasim (MBA 2005) and other Boston-based students and professionals started the Association for the Development of Pakistan (ADP) in 2003 to support the best local nonprofits. Wasim, a Baker Scholar at HBS, was View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)

between hard work and good luck. Leading us through the pivot into the digital era has been gut-wrenching at times. People didn’t care about the 50 years of work that had come before. It was a process of dissolving while evolving. In... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

22 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Mary-Kate Johnson

agenda but many don’t realize it. Students want to: 1) perform well in class 2) conduct endless research and create several excel sheets to determine what the next best step is for their career, and 3) work with people that they are View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

Command-and-control leaders are finding it difficult to motivate frontline employees and take advantage of their knowledge and wisdom. This is especially true in global organizations that require collaboration between View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

02 Mar 2020
News

Cheese Whiz

Indian paneer, Palestinian Ackawi, and a range of Hispanic cheeses, such as asadero and Cotija. “Business is pretty simple,” Scharfman told the Wisconsin State Journal. “Identify a market need, figure out how to do it, get access to capital. I add a fourth, which is... View Details

Keywords: manufacturing; labor; innovation; cheese; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

08 May 2006
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

this field experiment. Q: What were the motives of people who allowed your experimenters to cut in line? Why didn't many of them accept payment? And if money wasn't an issue, why did higher payments... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2022
News

A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

purpose and culture and motivation are. And how money does not even need to be a part of that. I think witnessing the impact while serving in the field is motivating enough; the View Details

Profile

Maurice Taylor

regulations space. Some people give it short shrift, but for me, it’s a passion. What are the motivations and fears of different actors? Everyone says they’re sophisticated investors, but at the end of the... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place

last-place aversion by putting 99 percent of the population in “last place,” behind the wealthiest 1 percent. He sees potential to use this aversion to motivate people to be more proactive in their own... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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Latin America - Global Activities 2020

real-world value. . . . It’s very motivating for us to interact with people who are benefiting from our research. ” Ben Roth Assistant Professor of Business Administration In your association with Fondo... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Starting Off on the Right Foot

with executives in transition: the tendency to assume that “everyone is just like me.” “You are not the person in the next office,” he emphasizes. “Most of us imagine that other people share our values and are View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

changed based on whether they think of them as individuals or groups. “How we attribute motives to other people becomes distorted when we stop thinking of them as individuals and instead move to a framework... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity

equity firms? How might we design an on-ramp for people looking to make career changes – people that could very well expand our capacity and understanding of our work? We are not at a loss for View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Noted & Quoted

(Australian Broadcasting Corporation, September 24, 2009) “Some people become leaders no matter what their chosen path because their positive energy is so uplifting.” — Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, writing about “plain energy” as a... View Details

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