Motivating People - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Dec 2019
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How Selfish Motives Drive People To Make Dumb Mistakes

21 Feb 2022
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How to Motivate Your Team When People Keep Quitting

Keywords: Resign; resignation

19 Dec 2022
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What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

25 Oct 2017
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The Motivations Behind Giving

10 Jan 2020
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New research finds people are selfishly motivated (even if they are unaware of it)

23 Oct 2013
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Three Things that Actually Motivate Employees

24 Apr 2014
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Motivation through hard knocks

Ask Creighton Taylor (MBA 2014) what he does as copresident of the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU), and he replies, “Too much!” Laughing, he qualifies: “It’s been great. My favorite part is that I get to give back to the School and View Details

25 Apr 2012
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What Doesn't Motivate Creativity Can Kill It

13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

working to understand their motivations and tracking their reactions to cultural and political events. Her unique insights have made her a regular on CNN and a fixture on the pages of the Boston Globe. And Hessan and I discussed her... View Details

26 Nov 2013
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Want to motivate new hires? Surprise them with a raise

23 Mar 2017
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Incentives Don’t Help People Change, but Peer Pressure Does

02 May 2016
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Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math

Cares, and Big Picture Learning, Math Hoops is a fast-paced board game that challenges student teams to solve math problem on a 24-second clock. Now in use in schools across the country and tied to Common Core state standards, the game is supported by NBA and WNBA... View Details