Image Motivation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
News

Get Well Soon

Art by James Yang/Getty Images Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it’s been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

whole trip, and all of these things cast a shadow on the luggage purchase. But these origins are often ignored." Zaltman believes that the emotions underlying a motivation to purchase can be unearthed by research that probes the... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

to look at products as customers do: a way to get a job done. Creating a Positive Professional Image (19,535) In today’s diverse workplace, your actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to... View Details

Profile

Raghu Yarlagadda

image and video processing. For four years, he worked at Motorola Mobility among the engineers who developed high-definition television technology. In the third year of his employment, he contributed to one of the first wireless set-top... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Truth Be Told

Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Mar 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Disaster Master

photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images News “Fast” and “unexpected” are two words Adrian Beer (OPM 31, 2002) uses to describe his work as CEO of GrupoBeer, a Madrid-based corporation providing post-disaster services such as building... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Sep 2019
News

Case Study: Up in the Air

Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew The facts of the ever-widening tech labor shortage are increasingly difficult to ignore: As many as 9 million tech jobs sit vacant across the United States,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

Challenging a concerning proposal Jordan studies how individuals and organizations manage their reputations. This research asked whether the desire to look good in the eyes of others might motivate people to indiscriminately share news... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

Here are the 20 most popular stories published by HBS Working Knowledge in 2008, and the five most-read working papers authored by HBS faculty. Most Popular Articles 1. Creating a Positive Professional Image (2005) In today's diverse... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

studied reflect the makeup of 80 percent of US and 90 percent of worldwide companies. The most important “implication is that the precautionary motive to preserve the buffer was inhibiting sales before,” says Kim. “Policymakers can take... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

01 Mar 2008
News

Reimagining China and India

KHANNA: “The countries are inverted mirror images of each other.” Lots of books have been written about modern China and India, but nearly all deal with one or the other — not both. HBS professor Tarun Khanna set out to fill the breach... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management; Retail Trade

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

data sources and illustrate how they can be used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income in New York City, suggesting that similar View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

what makes them tick. Here, she discusses stickK, an application that motivates people by forcing them to put skin in the game of self-improvement. Netflix Wins Big by Betting on "House of Cards" Anita Elberse The TV drama... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

doesn’t work. You Might Also Like: Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

amount is objectively more than $5,” Zhang says. In cases in which a seemingly petty amount is exchanged, but the giver does not intend to focus on precision, an explanation of the true motivation helps mitigate the negative effects, the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

are irrationally motivated to complete arbitrary sets of tasks, donations, or purchases—and organizations can take advantage of that, according to new research by Kate Barasz, Leslie John, Elizabeth Keenan, and Michael Norton. Plus: The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2021
Blog Post

A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

financing. If you teach marketing, understand how Black images are portrayed and exploited. Treat it like any other area. For alumni, give resources to support the Black community at HBS and beyond. Use your money and your time to create... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

Image by Edmon de Haro The US Postal Service prides itself on delivering through rain, sleet, and snow—but what about serious debt? After 11 straight years of losses and declining first-class mail volumes, the USPS saw one glimmer of hope... View Details