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non-financial reward. The analysis yields three main findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four... View Details
  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others, was published in July 2019 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. “Passion, like a smile, is contagious.” In the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

problem-solving process. To pursue the efficacy of collaboration the research team developed a straightforward experiment that mirrored real-world problem-solving work. Rather than start from scratch, they customized a platform called View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

supervisors and chatted with workers in green jumpsuits. She then sped over to DSNY headquarters, just a few blocks north of City Hall, to discuss the details of the agency’s emergency snow response with her executive team. “Don’t screw it up,” Tisch deadpanned before... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

the company, not the person. A bus might come by and knock the (top) person over." There are several assumptions implicit in these two items. First, there are limits within which pay can elicit performance. Above a certain amount of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 08 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate

anthropological database of more than 1,200 pre-industrial societies, and links these historic conditions to modern data, such as the Standard Demographic and Health Surveys, which offer large-scale household survey data worldwide. These surveys View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

  • 30 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

could Kate have done differently to get a better outcome? "We spend a lot of time talking both about what emotions we elicit in others based on our behavior, and what we need to do to manage our own emotions. There are lessons on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports
  • 16 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

produce incremental market share in a crowded market—then it’s not worth pursuing,” he says. IMPLICATIONS FOR MANAGERS The implication for managers is that sharp incentives can be effective in eliciting creative effort from employees—but... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
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Working Groups Update | About

community members understand the insidious history of antisemitism and feel equipped to recognize and combat antisemitism and hatred more broadly. We will also examine episodes at the School that have elicited concerns among Jewish... View Details
  • 08 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Building a World of Trusted Leaders: Taking the MBA Oath

continue to advance and create sustainable and inclusive prosperity. In exercising my professional duties according to these principles, I recognize that my behavior must set an example of integrity, eliciting trust and esteem from those... View Details
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

people, he said. Providing charity with dignity is "giving them a hand up, rather than a handout." Rasul wanted Ballard to contribute to the community, and for employees to become involved as well. But when a partnership with United Way failed to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild
  • 20 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

We all enjoy sharing jokes with friends, hoping a witty one might elicit a smile—or maybe even a belly laugh. Here’s one for you: A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when, suddenly, a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

Getting defensive or staying silent are two common ways that people tend to react when faced with conflict or thorny topics that elicit ardently opposing views. These studies in conversational psychology suggest that engaging in tough... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 13 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

competitive context cued negotiators to the traditionally "masculine" nature of the interaction, and the ambiguity in certain industries allowed these cues to elicit different negotiating behavior from men and women. These... View Details
Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn
  • 12 Dec 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

any entrepreneur looking to build a business around an unconventional product that elicits multiple reactions: How do you balance fun and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? Clocky... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 24 Jan 2011
  • HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

particularly since it can also be taught as an example of managing the postcrisis recovery of a flagship corporate brand. No Clear Answer The question of why the Taj employees demonstrated such loyalty elicited a variety of responses from... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Research Summary

Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

  • 03 Dec 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

month's question elicited responses across the spectrum of recommended ways of managing them. At one extreme was Sherpa, who said, "Any sort of 'brilliant jerk" is simply another form of psychopath. Psychopaths have no place in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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