Motivation - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 May 2014
HBS Seminar

Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

so excited about our future together and motivates me as Co-President. I’m looking forward to keeping our passionate LASO community alive and reinvigorating our membership base to serve one another, our greater Latinx community, the next... View Details

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

civilizations when we visited the 600+ year old Changdeokgung and Gyeongbokgung Palaces nestled in the middle of 20-year-old skyscrapers. South Koreans take tremendous pride in their past and it motivates them to build their country... View Details

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Instructor Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

performance of a case method instructor. Much of the instructor's impact on student learning takes place in the classroom. Although students bear co-responsibility for their learning, the instructor's effectiveness in motivating and... View Details

24 Feb 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele

Keywords: by George Serafeim; Accounting

05 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Linus Dahlander, European School of Management and Technology (ESMT)

18 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

Keywords: by Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker & Karen L. Murrell; Health

2006
Other Unpublished Work

Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry

By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson

Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Competition; Lawsuits and Litigation

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01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

business schedule and our middle-aged lack of energy. It's very rewarding." What is the most important thing you've learned about business since leaving HBS? Simple - people. As you rise, you have to motivate individuals, you have to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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 do such a poor job of engaging their employees. The dominant... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

years, which means the next few months will be critical until Mexico City's rainy season begins. That's still three months away.” The impending water crisis in the city where she grew up motivated Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023)... View Details

10 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Combining an Interest in Music and Business

remembered that I had once said that I wanted to use these two years to make a stop and reformulate my professional goals, to find out what motivates me and to explore different alternatives, things that I had never tried before. I... View Details

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

the writing of popular film scripts like The Matrix or Star Wars. Character behaviors, actions, and motivations hook the interest of readers at all levels, regardless of their professional experience with IT, while the plot sets up a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

encourage productivity, collaboration, and innovation. "But you can protect those gains if you remember the intention and motivation that sparked this movement in the first place." As economic clouds form on the horizon, these efforts... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster

early Facebook fad, planking is the act of lying face-down in an incongruous place. It is the epitome of digital narcissism and any hint of motive other than "look at me" just clouds the picture. By contrast, the ALS ice bucket... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

this?" 2. Remember the little picture At a time when her team was filled with fear and feeling burnt out, Andrus used small successes as a motivational tool. First, make sure everyone understands the long-term strategy, she says.... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

for Behavior Change Featured Exercises B. J. Fogg Behavioral Model: Identify prompts to improve users’ ability and motivation to engage in a desired behavior 6-8 hrs Module 5 Project Week - Ideate Practice generating ideas and evaluating... View Details

October 2020
Case

Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner

In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details

Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian state