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- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
Abstract Agency theory suggests that the interests of opportunistic, self-interested agents conflict with those of principals. Stewardship theory suggests instead that executives' interests are aligned with company interests and that executives are thus more View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
intrinsically good and not subject to reevaluation on a case-by-case basis," writes Harvard Business School professor Lynn Sharp Paine in Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior...
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by Paul Michelman
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
respect. While the prestige and group identity that spring from working for a particular institution can be a motivating force for employees, it's pride in what they do—recognition of the intrinsic value of...
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by Theodore Kinni
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
a network of people who analyze, critique and place artwork in context, and are able to not only talk about the aesthetic richness of a piece at present, but also its historical value and place in the art world¹s hierarchy and development over time. "The...
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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
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 schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
creativity and intrinsic motivation of others. Our research suggests that most managers are not in tune with the inner work lives of their employees; nor do they appreciate how pervasive the effects of inner...
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- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
firms they work in? Are they specific to the firms that have developed them; or are they stars because they have some intrinsically special qualities and abilities? We have looked at investment analysts in research departments of...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
As a way to delve deeper into the link between motivation and creativity, Amabile and her husband, psychologist Steven J. Kramer, conducted a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products,...
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- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Furthermore, the manager will rely more on persuasion when employee motivation is more important for the execution of the project, when the employee has strong intrinsic or extrinsic incentives, and, for a...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
country innovated in ways to minimize physical contact during the test procedure, such as drive-through and phone booth testing facilities, which protected both medical staff and other patients. These sites motivated people to voluntarily...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
franca, or shared language, or in a local language-does not guarantee high performance. Recruiters may favor fluency over other capabilities. They may rely on external hires with language skills rather than grooming internal candidates with the capacity and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be happy—may have the perverse consequence of decreasing charitable giving, crowding out View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
perceptions, emotions, and motivation levels—on several dimensions of performance. People perform better when their workday experiences include more positive emotions, stronger intrinsic View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
create fertile soil for dynamic capabilities. The five micromechanisms are values-based decision heuristics; intrinsic motivation with positive emotions; an organizational control system based on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
were not women themselves—it was in the nature of hierarchies in companies and society. Ely: What you're saying is that the discourse on gender partly motivated you to write the book and to think about things differently. The research on...
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by Robin J. Ely
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
non-financial rewards leverage intrinsic motivation and, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not appear to crowd it out. Third, the responses to both types of incentives are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
around the different extrinsic and intrinsic motivations underlying each of these party's approach to the movie and, therefore, to the negotiation. The exercise allows exploration of the risks of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
and the multiple purposes for which goals are used, including planning, coordination, motivation, and evaluation. We explain why performance goals must pass three important tests: alignment with strategy, measurability, and linkage to economic value creation. This...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
Katie have recently done something that a number of our listeners also want to do, and that is to learn how to do interviews using the Jobs To Be Done technique. This approach to consumer research requires the interviewer to probe pretty deeply to understand the View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
restrictions and differential metadata add little strategic insight. Q: One motivation for using iTunes that you identify is the fast download time provided by Apple—you can enjoy the music you download almost instantly. But as broadband...
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