Emotional Experience Of Leaders - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

Engaged workers are more productive. (iStock) iStock SUMMING UP: How Can We Prepare Leaders to Engage Their Associates? This month’s column elicited a number of reasons on why organizations around the world... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

work over their personal lives are less happy." The findings have professional and personal implications for workers at a time when many business leaders are embracing performance-based pay. About 75 percent View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

its emphasis on individual heroes, cycling is very much a team sport, one where the team supports the leader and works for his success. Riders help shield their leader from other cyclists in tight packs,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and constraints on the ability to View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

became a political leader during Reconstruction. Eventually, Kearns discovered that he is a descendant of Emanuel Cumbo, his 10th great-grandfather, who was born to parents who arrived in Point Comfort,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Until recently, having full sets of outcome measures for clinical conditions a was major limitation to implementing this part of the value-based health care agenda. That was changed in 2012 when View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

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Skydeck - Alumni

wilderness? How to Have Effective Conversations Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) on the rules of real talk On the Job Recipients of the 2024 Alumni Achievement Award share... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

me for the rest of my life. I hope this inspires others looking to get a similar transformational experience know that you can do it too! While these takeaways aren’t unique, this is my perspective. #1 You... View Details

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

depends on simultaneously addressing such conflicting demands, not choosing between them. Leaders need to become comfortable with multiple truths and inconsistency. They need to assume that resources are ample rather than scarce. And they... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

experiences, from the Illinois Lottery to Peoples Energy to the White House, has been reimagining a mature product or experience and making it fresh for the next generation.” More than mascara: “Our company has two brands: Black Opal and... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

reorient based on the new realities. While team launches set the course of a group at the moment it comes together, relaunches act as resets. The COVID-19 pandemic upending routines calls for relaunches to help View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

the implications of your research so far for business leaders who want to enhance creativity in their organizations? A: My answer to the previous question suggests managerial implications concerning time... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

widespread and the timing and nature of the end of the virus as we know it so uncertain that it is impossible to know what the parameters of such an end state. Business View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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About - Race, Gender & Equity

About The Race, Gender & Equity Initiative brings together a global, multidisciplinary community of Harvard Business School faculty, alumni, and students to champion projects and programs that advance understanding, generate tools and... View Details

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

SVMP Gave Me the Courage to Fail

discussions. The small teams provided safe spaces to test new ideas and learn about the case topic from a new perspective. In these teams, each of us was encouraged to lead the discussion, which was a new View Details

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

pricing can be found in the article Deconstructing the Price Tag.) The Brain Shopping Experiment In a series of experiments, participants went shopping—while lying on their backs inside a functional magnetic... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early... View Details