Passion - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

If you really like something you keep doing it, sometimes after it's no longer appropriate to do it.— Howard Stevenson "The only problem is, when you look at those characteristics, passion is often addictive," said Stevenson.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jun 2020
Book

It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward

serial entrepreneur and leadership coach. Unleashed, their second book, reflects the married couple’s passion for sharing the knowledge and experience they have gained through years as “accelerators of action.” Kristen Senz: How did you... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

business wisdom as old school, we found ourselves wondering if they were right. For years we had watched new management ideas come and go, passionately embraced one year, abruptly abandoned the next. "What really works?" we... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

leadership style. Click to watch. Book Excerpt from What to Ask the Person in the Mirror-Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential Recognizing Your Passions As a leader, you do need to be aware of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

Exeter Business School. You Might Also Like: More Proof That Money Can Buy Happiness (or a Life with Less Stress) The Pursuit of Passion Propagates Privilege Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of... View Details

Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

a connected group of very passionate supporters” "The way brands came in to social media wasn't sensitive to the medium," says Jill Avery, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, who spent a decade managing brands for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

high-stakes player contracts involving millions of dollars. He intuitively understood that emotions were an important factor in dealing with people as passionate as athletes. "The last thing I wanted to do was create an excuse for a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

28 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

we've found that even when people passionately disagree, they usually have some shared values or common beliefs that can bring them together. Hedge your claims. “I think it's very possible that the pandemic may overwhelm our medical... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

unabashed about expressing his individuality. He speaks passionately and directly, unafraid to let his personality shine and to make himself vulnerable. But Wallace wants everyone in his company to feel and behave like this. As he... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

that with early-stage companies, the idea doesn’t matter so much as the quality and passion of the entrepreneur who is pushing it; while others invest in the idea and replace the founder with a professional management team when needed.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

associate Arthur McCaffrey. It's also one they are passionate about and determined to solve. As they write in a new working paper that they're preparing for an academic journal, there are more than three billion people in the world who... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

Skies." Nike insists that you "Just Do It." The most successful brands also allow their consumers to co-create brand meaning. “Let's Make America Great Again” is an inclusive call to arms with a powerful goal that each voter can interpret for himself. It... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

17 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

Older Internet users may remember the battles over the commercialization of the Web in the early 1990s, when the first Mosaic browser was introduced. Back then, pioneering adopters passionately condemned the first Web advertisers and... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

16 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

"passions" and the "impartial spectator." What did he mean by this? A: Smith believed that much of human behavior was under the influence of the "passions"—emotions such as fear and anger, and drives such as hunger and sex—but these View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

08 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

bring to life the stories of a diverse and passionate array of changemakers, through projects like Pathways to a Just Digital Future and our Glass-Shattering Leaders case series, and our teaching material collections. Role models are one... View Details

Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

$60 million from investors that included Kleiner Perkins—didn’t close for another two years. No one wants to be a quitter. Psychology professor Angela Duckworth tapped into the zeitgeist with her famous TED Talk and best-selling book, Grit: The Power of View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

great leadership the desire to achieve it, and of course constant training to adapt to new ways of working.” David Deans said that greatness “has little to do with working together in a traditional office environment People that come together for a common cause that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

on the stairs—the room was completely packed. Sir Alex himself seemed perfectly at home in our classroom, and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. They lined up to engage with him after class as well, and he met with many students more informally later in the afternoon.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

dissatisfaction ("hygiene factors") are completely separate from those that determine true satisfaction ("motivators"). Insufficient financial compensation, for example, falls into the former camp. But having sufficient compensation will not lead to View Details