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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Roadmap for Moms
stay-at-home moms to return to work? Money is probably the biggest motivation but not just for itself. Often it’s a desire to be able to spend one’s own earned money. People often measure how successful they... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
When Bill George (MBA ’66) talks about leadership, people listen. And well they should. For a decade, he quietly grew a midsized Minnesota medical-device maker into a world-class medical technology company. When George joined Medtronic in... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
a social enterprise. Misan is the cofounder and CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), an organization dedicated to tackling youth unemployment in West Africa. What motivated you to pursue a career path in the social sector? My... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.”... View Details
- Profile
Gopesh Mittal
education is in the ‘soft’ skills, the essential ingredients of leadership such as motivating teams, managing change and working across different cultural contexts. In a world where people are becoming more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Stevenson’s Own
meets it? The motivation to pursue those opportunities to achieve some desired future state Do I have the long-term will and endurance necessary to stick with it, until that product or service is fully implemented and available? An... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 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
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
authority until people feel like they know you." Coming In With The Answer New leaders who show up with a single answer for complex organizational problems usually do so out of arrogance or insecurity, or because they believe they... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
It will take weeks for rescuers to comb through the gruesome wreckage of Manhattan, months to piece together the madness behind the attack. We can only speculate right now about the motives that drove men into the air, into the buildings.... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
benefits." As with his health insurance study, Olds acknowledges personal motivations for looking into the effects of SNAP. "I've never seen my mother working harder than when we were on Food Stamps, so I was skeptical that... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
recently published The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families. Writer Orna Feldman recently spoke with Covey. What explains the success of your 7 Habits books? Pain. People have broken relationships. They live in a mistrustful culture.... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
very inspired by this work, so they are solidifying their partner networks and motivating their employees. People like going to work every day with the idea that they have two jobs. One job is "do my... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“ Of everything that can engage people deeply in work, the single most important is simply making progress in meaningful work.” —HBS professor Teresa Amabile, discussing her long-range research on what View Details
Keywords: quotations
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
transition process of passing responsibilities for SPI's primary operations to vice president and general manager Dean Urmston, a veteran of the seed industry who is based in Bakersfield, California. What motivates this compassionate man?... View Details
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Naeill Leigh
a more effective, a more influential leader. I’m gaining insight about the kind of leader I can be. The way I would’ve led people before is very different from what I would do now. I have more self-awareness, a broader understanding of... View Details
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Benjamin Peterson
thinks about how to maintain it. In the end, the Haitian government built the most kilometers of high-quality roads, because it was incented to maintain them. The experience got me interested in incentives, in what motivates View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Research Brief: Launching into a Downturn
High-Tech Start-Up Outcomes,” Roche and coauthor Annamaria Conti found that high-tech and medical-device startups launched in uncertain financial times underperform those whose founders have better job security. As a result, the bar for good ideas goes down for View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
should surely be pleased when the commercial sector is motivated to bring its resources to bear on the problem at hand, and prospectively accelerate the distribution of low-cost personal computers to more View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
environment. It's largely an untold history, Jones says, ignored by both business and environmental historians. Indeed, many people still think that there were few environmental concerns or green businesses until the last decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne