Work Engagement - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

that shows people are much more likely to give to a charity if that charity promises to never ask them again. This reinforces what Julian was saying: While some strategies might make short-run donations go up, they also could clearly dampen giving in the long run.... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

when there's another just down the hall. All of these reasons create a workplace in which authority is at best an uncertain means of influence. Your Formal Authority by Itself Cannot Generate Commitment You need more than people's simple compliance. You need them to be... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

Working on a $30 million historical epic about the Tang Dynasty to be set in China, Hollywood screenwriter David Franzoni struggled to make the story appeal to Western audiences. Then Franzoni hit upon an idea: tell the tale through the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

them to be more intuitive and divergent thinkers. Either you have it or you don't. But does research really support this idea? Our research confirms others' work that creativity skills are not simply genetic traits endowed at birth, but... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

10 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces

Knitting together a workforce with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and other demographic differences is challenging even for experienced managers, who must socialize those employees into the organization and also help them form new work... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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For Alumni - Health Care

For Alumni Making a Difference in Health Care Harvard Business School With more than 8,000 graduates working in all health care industries around the globe, our alumni play important roles from supporting faculty with research to helping... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

A Continuum of Innovation

understanding, and it has evolved into a course that also teaches design thinking and team effectiveness through practice in the real world. It takes place in the spring of the RC year for all 900-plus students and culminates in team-based project View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

13 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles

policies, agreements, and plans, as well as forums (like boards, family councils, and annual meetings of the owners) to develop the plans, agreements, rules, and policies, to address important issues and to work out differences. One very... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Davis

01 Mar 2023
What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

employees. Nikos Mourkogiannis cited four types of purpose that provide “sources of energy” for an organization: Heroism: The desire to change the world and society. Discovery: The challenge of adventure and innovation characterized by entrepreneurs willing to View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Leadership - Health Care

faculty, and alumni. Her work supports the life sciences within HBS, while identifying and extending engagement opportunities to mission-aligned enterprises around Harvard and the Boston biotech community.... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

to determine how to lift WTP in ways that don’t rely on scale 5 hrs Module 4 Creating Value for Talent Discover ways to make work more attractive for your employees, understand the difference between lowering WTS and reducing... View Details

05 Jul 2023
News

GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center

future alumni, and ensure that they have a place to connect, engage, and further their professional pursuits." The House—which will soon have a dedicated staff—offers approximately 3,000 square feet of event and work space equipped with a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2011
Book

Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber

Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details

Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry

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16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

Fox, the Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, analyzes efforts since the Kennedy administration to reform defense spending on aircraft, ships, submarines, tanks, missiles, satellites and other major weapons systems. The text is also available as a... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

03 Jun 2019
Blog Post

9 Lessons from the Class of 2019

program. Students come from all over the world with different industry backgrounds, passions, and goals and work together to combine their unique experiences with the education they gain at HBS. However, it is the students who decide... View Details

09 Nov 2023
Blog Post

The No. 1 Character Trait You Will Need to Succeed in Business

If you choose to pursue a career in business, I can guarantee that you will experience moments that will test you as never before. At times like those, what quality will you need more than any other? I believe that quality is courage. Imagine the following situations:... View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

movements. Approaches vary greatly, but many scholars attend closely to the subjects who receive, impose, resist, or recast race as a category. Their work erodes the image of exchange between equally situated agents and locates it in a... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

24 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

scholars from all over the world, here are my top 3 misconceptions from my experience at HBS. Myth #1: I don't deserve to be here. I initially struggled with imposter syndrome in the first few SVMP cases, feeling like I didn't have the seemingly prerequisite academic... View Details

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such situations, individuals View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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