Motivating Professionals - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

and measure yourself against accordingly. Learn quickly what your true "drivers" are—what really motivates and energizes you—and then pursue a career that is coherent with them. If you follow your passion with competence (heart) and... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

long term, financial and otherwise—than is readily apparent. All of us can get carried away with a seemingly good idea taken to excess. Everyone knows the famous movie line, when Gordon Gekko told us that “greed is good.” Do any of us really think that greed alone is... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts

Hajim (MBA 1964) and Glenn Plaskin Skyhorse On the Road Less Traveled is the story of Edmund Hajim, an American financier and philanthropist who rises from dire childhood circumstances to achieve professional success and personal... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate ourselves." Senior Lecturer... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur

people before coming to HBS, I shot my hand up in the air, and we proceeded to have at it, as to how you motivate people to follow a new course of action. I now teach at HBS, and I have never forgotten John’s kindness to me. In fact, I am... View Details

Keywords: Dean

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

leaders, yet many professionals are too stressed to know where to start. Burton provides deep insights and easy practices based in neuroscience, brain training, and positive psychology to help professionals... View Details

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

Jennings was reduced to ending the show by acknowledging “our new computer overlords.” At IBM, the mood was euphoric, but Ferrucci had always had an ulterior motive for developing Watson. “I actually was pre-med in college and aspiring to... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

people would still find it useful to cooperate. Those questions motivated me really early on, but I had a very vague sense of it. My dissertation at Harvard was just an algorithm for solving mathematical programming problems as... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

COVID-19 response. In a recent blog post, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative connected with several first and second year fellows to hear about their work. “Being able to see the impact my work is creating on people on a day-to-day basis helps keep me View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

judgments." Several Bulletin authors considered the sometimes contentious relationship between profit motive and business responsibility in the politically tumultuous 1960s. "Is profit really our goal?" asked Harry L. Smith (36th AMP) in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

forward. Abrams and Hodgson also elevate and share the experiences of other successful founders including, Jules Pieri of The Grommet, Alisa Clark of Glory Professional Services, and Sheila Jordan of Knowledge Architects. Aramco Brat: How... View Details

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