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- 27 Dec 2011
- News
Start the New Year with Progress
- 14 Jun 2021
- Op-Ed
When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative
narrative and turn stressful moments into meaningful ones. Expect to do well How we think about an outcome influences our actual results. This insight has been demonstrated for years through the use of medical placebos. In one study,...
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by Francesca Gino
- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
When receiving their performance reviews, most people find such feedback conversations to be difficult, no matter how skilled the feedback-givers are. In a recent survey I conducted of 360 working adults, 89 percent said they were not...
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by Francesca Gino
- 06 Dec 2011
- News
How to Save an Unproductive Day in 25 Minutes
Justine Murray
Justine is a doctoral student in the Micro Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. Her research interests include callings, meaningful work, time, money and happiness and how individuals account for each of these factors when making decisions about...
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- 15 Sep 2011
- News
Three Ways to Turn Setbacks into Progress
- August 2023
- Technical Note
Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling
By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Work can be a means to a financial end, a stepping stone to higher-level jobs, or a meaningful end in itself: a calling. The technical note provides an overview of two different ways people can pursue a calling: with an internal focus or external focus.
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- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 07 Mar 2013
- HBS Seminar
Mike Toffel, Harvard Business School
- 10 May 2013
- News
Women and Work: A Harvard Prof’s Take
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
would I be able to pick up the necessary skills to succeed in a new role and build meaningful relationships with the team and the entrepreneurs? Would I enjoy this experience? I had some previous experience View Details
- 28 Mar 2013
- News
Advancing the World's Leading Women
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
challenges, but also their ideas, asking "What do you wish your organization or your boss would do differently?" I cherry-picked my sample, choosing people who went to top colleges and were working in blue chip companies. You would expect...
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- 04 Jul 2011
- News
Declaring Independence in the Workplace
- 11 Oct 2021
- News
Tapping into Our Inner Captain in Times of Crisis
- 06 Apr 2015
- News
Spire's Peter Platzer: the boss who never fires anyone
- Research Summary
Overview
I am a field researcher studying the relational nature of work. Organizations are inherently social institutions and provide myriad opportunities for relationship formation. My work begins with the simple insight that all relationships are not equal: interpersonal...
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- May 2011
- Article
The Power of Small Wins
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
What is the best way to motivate employees to do creative work? Help them take a step forward every day. In an analysis of knowledge workers' diaries, the authors found that nothing contributed more to a positive inner work life (the mix of emotions, motivations, and...
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Creativity;
Interpersonal Communication;
Employee Relationship Management;
Leadership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Emotions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Groups and Teams;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Working Conditions;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Skills;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Performance Productivity;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Happiness;
Perception;
Trust;
Time Management;
Resource Allocation;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Managerial Roles
Amabile, Teresa M., and Steven J. Kramer. "The Power of Small Wins." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011).
- Research Summary
My research is concerned with the way in which people find their way to meaningful and satisfying work. I am also interested in the way in which the culture and productivity of business organizations are enhanced when individuals are able to move toward work activities...
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- January 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Trouble at Tessei
By: Ethan Bernstein and Ryan W. Buell
In 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen ("bullet") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues, and employee turnover are at or near all-time highs, even as the...
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Service Management;
Employee Engagement;
Employee Motivation;
Leadership And Managing People;
Quality Improvement;
Efficiency;
Japan;
Operational Transparency;
Employee Coordination;
Transparency;
Leadership;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Employees;
Quality;
Transportation Industry;
Japan
Bernstein, Ethan, and Ryan W. Buell. "Trouble at Tessei." Harvard Business School Case 615-044, January 2015. (Revised October 2015.)