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- 2014
- Working Paper
Opting Out of Good Governance
By: C. Fritz Foley, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein and Eric Zwick
Cross-listing on a U.S. exchange does not bond foreign firms to follow the corporate governance rules of that exchange. Hand-collected data show that 80% of cross-listed firms opt out of at least one exchange governance rule, instead committing to observe the rules of... View Details
Foley, C. Fritz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein, and Eric Zwick. "Opting Out of Good Governance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19953, March 2014.
- 2007
- Working Paper
Public Action for Public Goods
By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
- 16 Jan 2019
- News
The Key to Good Leadership
- May–June 1996
- Article
Do Better at Doing Good
By: V. K. Rangan, Sohel Karim and Sheryl Sandberg
Rangan, V. K., Sohel Karim, and Sheryl Sandberg. "Do Better at Doing Good." Harvard Business Review 74, no. 3 (May–June 1996): 42–51.
- Article
Opting Out of Good Governance
By: C. Fritz Foley, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein and Eric Zwick
Foley, C. Fritz, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Jonathan Greenstein, and Eric Zwick. "Opting Out of Good Governance." Journal of Empirical Finance 46 (March 2018): 93–110.
- 1978
- Article
An Incentive Compatible Planning Procedure for Public Good Production
By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
It is only recently that economic theorists have faced the fact that the proposed allocation mechanisms in economies with public goods might have bad incentive properties. In this paper we introduce a new planning procedure such that truthful revelation of the marginal... View Details
Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "An Incentive Compatible Planning Procedure for Public Good Production." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 80, no. 1 (1978): 20–33.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India
By: Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer
Banerjee, Abhijit, and Lakshmi Iyer. "Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-062, February 2008.
- December 2012
- Course Overview Note
Good Practices for Supervising an EC Independent Project
By: Ian W. Mackenzie
Spurred by the notion that Faculty Supervisors (FSs) can make a significant contribution to the educational value and overall success of Independent Projects (IPs) to students, this note offers a set of good practices which can be used to guide the policies and... View Details
Keywords: Independent Projects; Faculty Supervisor; Project Manager; Student Evaluation; Projects; Groups and Teams
Mackenzie, Ian W. "Good Practices for Supervising an EC Independent Project." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 713-469, December 2012.
- April 2017 (Revised May 2023)
- Teaching Plan
Delivering the Goods at Shippo
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
Teaching Plan for HBS No. 817-065. View Details
- 02 Dec 2014
- News
Good news! Hiring to pick up in 2015
- 14 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Rainmakers: Why Bad Weather Means Good Productivity
- 21 Apr 2021
- News
Doing Well While Doing Good
- 2013
- Article
Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings? On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending
By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom and Michael I. Norton
When are the emotional benefits of generous behavior most likely to emerge? In three studies, we demonstrate that the hedonic benefits of generous spending are most likely when spending promotes positive social connection. Study 1 shows that people feel happier after... View Details
Keywords: Money; Prosocial Spending; Social Connection; Well-being; Donations; Charitable Giving; Warm Glow; Social Relationships; Gift Giving; Happiness; Relationships; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society
Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom, and Michael I. Norton. "Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings? On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending." International Journal of Happiness and Development 1, no. 2 (2013): 155–171.
- 28 Mar 2012
- News
The good intentions that will kill your business
- Mar 12 2019
- Testimonial
Doing Well, While Doing Good
- 19 Apr 2019
- News
Tiger’s Back, and That’s Good News for Other Troubled Brands
- Article
Pricing Experience Goods in Information Goods Markets: The Case of eBusiness Service Providers
By: Shane Greenstein and Sarit Markovich
Greenstein, Shane, and Sarit Markovich. "Pricing Experience Goods in Information Goods Markets: The Case of eBusiness Service Providers." International Journal of the Economics of Business 19, no. 1 (February 2012): 119–139.
- 2009
- Working Paper
The Devil Wears Prada: Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making
By: Roy Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou
Although the concept of luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to luxury goods. This paper demonstrates that mere exposure to luxury goods... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Ethics; Marketing; Behavior; Power and Influence; Luxury
Chua, Roy Y.J., and Xi Zou. "The Devil Wears Prada: Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-034, November 2009.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software
By: Frank Nagle
As firms increasingly rely on crowdsourced digital goods, understanding their impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of one such good, non-pecuniary (free) open source software (OSS). The results show a... View Details
Nagle, Frank. "Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-062, January 2015. (Revised June 2015.)