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- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
prosocial bonuses, a novel type of bonus spent on others rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier and more satisfied employees at an Australian bank. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Management. The company soon became one of the nation's foremost database marketing companies, helping hundreds of America's leading membership organizations and nonprofit groups with their fundraising and record-keeping efforts. "In helping View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
graduates develop new social ventures. The sum here is greater than the individual parts. Behind the numbers of conference attendees and fellowship recipients is a shift in attitude and understanding. Social enterprise isn’t about charity... View Details
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
define as the activities, structures, processes, and meanings by which organizations make sense of and combine multiple organizational forms. We propose that social enterprises that combine the organizational forms of both business and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
staff community projects program that organizes offsite charitable activities, such as Habitat for Humanity. In addition, Velocity rewards employees with $1,000 cash contributions to their charities of choice and peer to peer ‘flash’... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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Menning, Carol Bresnahan. Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy: The Monte di Pietà of Florence (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993). Gelpi, Rosa-Maria. The History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices (New York: St.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
are competitive enterprises — Rubicon produces high-qualitycakes, for example — that just happen to employ folksthat the rest of the labor market often won't hire," he says. "Wedon't operate on a charity basis because if you do... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
wages instead lead to lower effort with substantial targeting behavior. A reference-dependent theoretical framework suggests an explanation for this differential impact: when individuals place less value on earnings, such as when accruing earnings for a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
about choosing a cause if there are many things you’re passionate about? There’s a lot written about choosing specific projects or charities within a cause, but what if you’re interested in doing good, and there are many causes that speak... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
appreciative of warmth, shelter, a shower—all those things you generally take for granted." But, Petzel adds, he also feels an obligation to give back. Based in London, where he works for Goldman Sachs, he became acquainted with Community Action Nepal (CAN), a View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
develop the ideas behind the Savings for Working Families Act (S. 2023/H.R. 4106), sponsored by Senators Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Rick Santorum (R-PA), which was introduced in 2000. Currently, the SWFA has been incorporated in the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
giving patterns in the years leading up to the event, the year of the event, and the years after. All the events had definite effects on giving patterns, but the magnitude of the event determined the magnitude of the charity spike. For... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
becoming more competitive and moving up. "We can't expect government to be on the front line," he stated. "We have to step up and demonstrate the power of the market system." Businesspeople should be thinking about the inner city as a place to do... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
and donate part of the proceeds to a charity to feed the hungry. Not all PWYW strategies are created equal, however. Santana investigated data from a pet adoption agency in New York, finding that on average patrons paid close to the $150... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
the last decade is the dramatic increase in the number of companies concerned with corporate social responsibility, and the resultant rise in the range and variety that such efforts have taken. From "old" models in which companies either donated money directly to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
demonstrates the benefits of affiliating a business with charities and nonprofits. They include an increase in the bottom line and employee morale as well as a boost to the company’s brand and reputation. Plugged In: The Generation Y... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
clubs in NY, Chicago, Seattle, LA, Miami, and San Francisco. Check club calendars for details. Celebrating 30 Years of Fulbrights in London The British Friends of Harvard Business School is a British registered charity set up by the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
themselves and the charity, they respond very similarly to self risk and charity risk. By contrast, when their decisions force tradeoffs between money for themselves and the charity, participants act more averse to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
at 500 meters and silver at 1000, he showed his generosity and concern for those less fortunate by contributing his cash rewards from the U.S. Olympic Committee to a global charity that benefits children. Later this month, his picture... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
deductions and just submit your income on the back of a postcard. All this was met with a barrage of criticisms, primarily from two groups: charities concerned that it would undermine giving, and Realtors, home builders, and mortgage... View Details