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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
events, messenger dislike is correlated with the belief that the messenger had malevolent motives (Studies 5A, 5B, & 5C). Studies 6A & 6B go further, manipulating messenger motives independently from...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
recipients’ motivation (Study 3c). We identify two constructs useful in determining the general effectiveness of ingratiation: excessive concern with image drives negative perceptions of backhanded...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
out of efficiency, cost, and risk mitigation issues. The elements are interdependent, yet not all stakeholders face the same image and branding exposure. Supply chains also translate to attenuated control; that is, your company can exert...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
by repositioning it as making "the most effective products as natural as possible." The company lost few existing customers and found that Jurlique's image was an asset in attracting Chinese consumers who liked the story of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
cost transparency would be helpful [in motivating buyers] if the price of the shirt was $10. But even at $35, we still saw an advantage to revealing the cost of production, which is interesting because the markup was five times the cost."...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they introduce a "greedy" signal and hence crowd out the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
gamification techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the performance consequences of gamified training by conducting a field experiment in a professional services firm. We find that the main...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
materials industry. USG was otherwise a solvent, growing company. Bankruptcy was an option, but a successful reorganization was by no means assured. How would USG keep its highly motivated (and non-unionized) workforce and continue to...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
industry who could also learn from knowledge spillovers. There were downsides to the new industry, however. The creation of the national image of a natural paradise enabled many businesses that were not environmentally sustainable to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
initiative program, including the effect of the initiative on employee engagement and motivation and on customer satisfaction. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111115-PDF-ENG InterfaceRAISE: Sustainability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
[$116 million] apiece (and a semiconductor fab needs multiple units), and has taken years to develop. Only a specialist who can sell to many customers can afford to do it. And there’s the rub—tool makers are motivated to sell to as many...
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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
decisions? O'Lear: I have been involved in microeconomic (company specific) upheaval. Prior to starting a company with two others, I worked at two high-tech companies: a privately held cardiac ultrasound imaging company and a VC-backed...
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by Susan Young
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
image of masculinity with an unconventional one and then set out to prove the new image—revealing mistakes strategically, for example, or competing in displays of sensitivity. Instead, the goal of proving one's masculine credentials,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Conflict Management Research (forthcoming) Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes inflating View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
C-Suite and the CEO what internal and external stakeholders are thinking and how this may affect corporate image in terms of credibility, confidence, trust, relationship, and reputation. In short, the new CCO must understand both the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
about food, business, and artistic vision. HBSWK: Both cases are about chefs that are pioneers in a certain kind of cuisine, faced with the issue of how to expand while remaining true to their culinary roots. How do you see them meeting those challenges? Khaire: The...
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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
and hence crowd out the motivation to volunteer? Since the strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved, the answer is theoretically unclear, and corresponding empirical evidence is mixed. To help counter this ambiguity, this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Critics have accused Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas producer, of eschewing market principles in favor of the foreign policy priorities of the Russian government, ever since the energy giant cut off the supply to Ukraine in January of 2006. The purported View Details
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Martha Lagace