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- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
Veteran entrepreneur and public education innovator Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) is on a mission to get kids excited about math. In addition to his profit-sector job as executive chairman of ANC Sports Enterprises, Daugherty has been the driving force behind NBA Math... View Details
- May 2019
- Supplement
Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (C)
By: Doug J. Chung
Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain. The company’s products consisted of home electronics and accessories. The company was noted for its excellent customer service and a fair “one-for-all” HR policy. Historically, the salespeople had been compensated... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Change Management; Behavior; Electronics Industry; Sweden
Chung, Doug J. "Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 519-095, May 2019.
- 31 Dec 2019
- News
How Selfish Motives Drive People To Make Dumb Mistakes
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments, co-written with Julie Holland Mortimer of Boston College and the National Bureau of Economic Research. The paper was updated earlier this year. Their findings about how to motivate... View Details
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Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive x Intergroup Threat Model to Understand How Monoracial Perceivers' Sociopolitical Motives Influence Their Categorization of Multiracial People
By: Arnold K. Ho, Nour Kteily and Jacqueline M. Chen
Ho, Arnold K., Nour Kteily, and Jacqueline M. Chen. "Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive x Intergroup Threat Model to Understand How Monoracial Perceivers' Sociopolitical Motives Influence Their Categorization of Multiracial People." Personality and Social Psychology Review 24, no. 3 (August 2020): 260–286.
Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence
We investigate the factors driving workers’ decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning... View Details
- January 2017 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (A)
By: Doug J. Chung
Kjell & Company was a Swedish retail electronics chain. The company’s products consisted of home electronics and accessories. The company was noted for its excellent customer service and a fair “one-for-all” HR policy. Historically, the salespeople had been compensated... View Details
Keywords: Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Change; Decision Making; Electronics Industry; Sweden
Chung, Doug J. "Kjell and Company: Motivating Salespeople with Incentive Compensation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 517-090, January 2017. (Revised May 2019.)
- 1 May 1995
- Conference Presentation
The Work Preference Inventory: Assessing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives
- July 2019
- Article
I Know Why You Voted for Trump: (Over)inferring Motives Based on Choice
By: Kate Barasz, Tami Kim and Ioannis Evangelidis
People often speculate about why others make the choices they do. This paper investigates how such inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen... View Details
Keywords: Self-other Difference; Social Perception; Inference-making; Preferences; Consumer Behavior; Prediction; Prediction Error; Decision Choices and Conditions; Perception; Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction
Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Ioannis Evangelidis. "I Know Why You Voted for Trump: (Over)inferring Motives Based on Choice." Special Issue on The Cognitive Science of Political Thought. Cognition 188 (July 2019): 85–97.
- July 24, 2019
- Editorial
How to Make Even the Most Mundane Tasks More Motivating
By: Jaewon Yoon, A.V. Whillans and Ed O'Brien
People want purposeful work, and managers know it. That’s why companies try to inspire employees with mission statements about the impact their work can have. Ikea tells employees they’re “creating a better everyday life”; Microsoft says they’re “empowering every... View Details
Yoon, Jaewon, A.V. Whillans, and Ed O'Brien. "How to Make Even the Most Mundane Tasks More Motivating." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 24, 2019).
- 06 Mar 2017
- News
To Motivate Employees, Show Them How They’re Helping Customers
- Web
Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others Course Number 1816 Associate Professor Ashley Whillans Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Career Focus This course gives students frameworks and tools for (i)... View Details
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Contagion or Restitution? When Bad Apples can Motivate Ethical Behavior
By: F. Gino, J. Gu and C. B. Zhong
Gino, F., J. Gu, and C. B. Zhong. "Contagion or Restitution? When Bad Apples can Motivate Ethical Behavior." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45, no. 6 (November 2009): 1299–1302.
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through
By: Holly Dykstra, Shibeal O'Flaherty and A.V. Whillans
Behavioral interventions often focus on reducing friction to encourage behavior change. In
contrast, we provide evidence that adding friction can promote long-term behavior change when
behaviors involve repeated costly efforts over longer time horizons. In... View Details
Dykstra, Holly, Shibeal O'Flaherty, and A.V. Whillans. "The Buy-In Effect: When Increasing Initial Effort Motivates Behavioral Follow-Through." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-020, October 2023.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Moral Mind Reading: Meta-Perceptive and Motive-Judgment Accuracy Across Moral Motives
By: J. Lees, L. Young and A. Waytz
- 26 Nov 2013
- News
Want to motivate new hires? Surprise them with a raise
- 13 Jun 2025
- News