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- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
behaviors. Also, intrinsic motivation should be higher in people who create an organization and feel a sense of control over its direction. Hence, there is much less of a clear divergence between managerial... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
Brian Kenny: What motivated you to write the case? Why were you interested in it? Thales Teixeira: Some of my research is on the economics of attention and online reviews have amassed a vast amount of attention nowadays. View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
public-private partnership in the world. The core mission is universal service: going everywhere six days a week, and a seventh day for package delivery. Some people believe that only a public agency can be trusted to provide this kind of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54725 2018 The Oxford Handbook of Advice How the Other Half Thinks: The Psychology of Advising By: Blunden, Hayley, and Francesca Gino Abstract—This chapter integrates research on advice interactions, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
franca, or shared language, or in a local language-does not guarantee high performance. Recruiters may favor fluency over other capabilities. They may rely on external hires with language skills rather than grooming internal candidates with the capacity and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
What are shareholders good for? Maybe not as much as most people think. Basically, shareholders are supposed to provide three functions: money, information, and discipline. Let's examine each. Money. In theory, shareholders are supposed... View Details
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Using Technology to Help Reclaim Lives from Addiction
motivate healthy behavior. “As a student at HBS,” Loeb reflects, “I thought I would pursue a career at the intersection of television and computers. I never dreamed that, many years later, I would be using that concept to help View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the world's six billion people still live on less than $2 a day; a fifth get by on less than $1. At times, foreign aid has even worsened the plight of the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 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
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
do not waste. I hope it truly brings predictability to innovation that historically we just have not had before. Why do managers ignore the motivations of their customers? Is part of it because they are now awash with data and fetishize... View Details
- Profile
Lauryn Hale
Growing up in Detroit, Lauryn Hale inherited an interest in business from her father, an accountant. That interest was reinforced through her high school participation in LEAD, an innovative University of Michigan program that introduces young View Details
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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
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
if the government is subject to oversight, and whether bureaucrats and politicians are independent from one another. Companies should gauge the level of actual trust among the populace as opposed to enforced trust. For instance, if people... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
organization's culture affects its economic performance. The basic working hypotheses are that: (1) people put forth more effort and produce better results for organizations whose values they identify with, and (2) therefore, it's in the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)
months. I really got the space and the time to reflect on what was important to me and what direction I wanted to take next in my career. When I came back, people were actually more interested in the travel than they were about my career... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
for the next 9/11 Commission. Q: What has struck you most about your exposure to the intelligence community? A: When I meet people from the intelligence community, I am deeply moved by the sheer degree of passion they have to prevent... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
motivate a change? What are the goals and objectives of the change, and how will it be organized? How will performance be measured against those objectives? What technology will be used? EE: How have popular operations strategies such as... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
muckraker Lincoln Steffens as a personal hero and who confesses that his heart still quickens when he hears the songs of the International Brigade. At OPM, Navasky wrote later, “My Nation self still tended to regard the profit motive as... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
and people don't like buying or paying for it. Therefore it takes skillful marketing to attract the attention of people and motivate the desired purchase behavior you are... View Details