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      Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness
      The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
      In trying to encourage good moral conduct, it's common for a company to come up with a list of don'ts—wording policies such that they focus on...
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      • July 24, 2019
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      How to Make Even the Most Mundane Tasks More Motivating

      By: Jaewon Yoon, A.V. Whillans and Ed O'Brien
      Managers constantly encourage employees to think about why they do the work they do in order to give them a sense of purpose and fight against demotivation. But our latest research—with nearly 4,000 working adults in the U.S.—suggests that this hyperfocus on purpose...  View Details
      Keywords: Employees; Motivation And Incentives; goals And Objectives; Perspective
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      Yoon, Jaewon, A.V. Whillans, and Ed O'Brien. "How to Make Even the Most Mundane Tasks More Motivating." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 24, 2019).
      • December 2018
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      Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance

      By: Suraj Srinivasan, Iris Leung and Quinn Pitcher
      Set in 2016, “Bata India versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance” compares the strategies and financial performance of two Indian footwear companies. Bata India had long been the market leader in footwear in India, but its leading market position was being challenged by...  View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Strategy; Operations; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Analysis; Apparel And Accessories Industry
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      Srinivasan, Suraj, Iris Leung, and Quinn Pitcher. "Bata versus Relaxo—Analyzing Performance." Harvard Business School Case 119-050, December 2018.
      • 2015
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      A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

      By: Gary P. Pisano
      The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to...  View Details
      Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations
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      Pisano, Gary P. "A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-036, September 2015.
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      Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness

      By: Melanie Rudd, Jennifer Aaker and Michael I. Norton
      Across six field and laboratory experiments, participants assigned a more concretely-framed prosocial goal (e.g., making someone smile or increasing recycling) felt happier and reported creating greater personal happiness after performing a goal-directed act of...  View Details
      Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Goal Framing; Affective Forecasting; goals And Objectives; Happiness; Philanthropy And Charitable Giving
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      Rudd, Melanie, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton. "Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 54 (September 2014): 11–24.
      • July–August 2014
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      The Crisis in Retirement Planning

      By: Robert C. Merton
      Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration...  View Details
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      Merton, Robert C. "The Crisis in Retirement Planning." Harvard Business Review 92, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2014): 43–50.
      • 2008
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      On Competition

      By: M. E. Porter
      Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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      Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
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      Managing Human Capital

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein

      The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal...  View Details

      Keywords: Human Capital; Hiring; Socialization; Performance Management; Compensation And Benefits; Talent Development And Retention; Structure
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      Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness
      The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
      In trying to encourage good moral conduct, it's common for a company to come up with a list of don'ts—wording policies such that they focus on...
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