Giving and Philanthropy - Publications - Faculty & Research

2025
Working Paper

Incentive-Compatible Recovery from Manipulated Signals, with Applications to Decentralized Physical Infrastructure

By: Jason Milionis, Jens Ernstberger, Joseph Bonneau, Scott Duke Kominers and Tim Roughgarden

We introduce the first formal model capturing the elicitation of unverifiable information from a party (the "source") with implicit signals derived by other players (the "observers"). Our model is motivated in part by applications in decentralized physical... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Infrastructure; Information Infrastructure

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17 Jul 2008
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A Replication Study of Alan Blinder’s “How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?”

Keywords: by Troy Smith & Jan W. Rivkin

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Generative AI - Alumni

a Harvard Business School alum” gives GPT a perspective to write from. Tone: Consider how you want to be perceived by the person reading the cover letter. Asking GPT to write a conversational or compelling cover letter will inform the... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Preparing Global Leaders

Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During the past academic year, 52 percent of HBS cases published were... View Details

28 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

codified until some years later after the success of the start-up." More founders would be advised to emulate Scott in giving thought to the kinds of cultures they are trying to create. As I point out in the book, "The task of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

siblings cited a deep regard for the School and a desire to pay tribute to their parents. "We wanted to give back to an institution that means a lot to us," says Harris H. Simmons (MBA '80), who succeeded... View Details

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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment (joint with Andrew Charlton)

By: Laura Alfaro

We identify a new type of vertical foreign direct investment (FDI) made up of multinational subsidiaries producing intermediate inputs, which are of similar skill intensity to the final goods produced by their parents, and which are overwhelmingly located in high skill... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)

As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

09 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

Donald Trump's victory may be a surprise—but not to astute marketers. Here are six important lessons from Trump's brand marketing playbook: Give consumers a job. The best marketing campaigns always call on consumers to do something. For... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as meaningless. We suggest that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the processes... View Details

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

legacy this upcoming year. LASO Priorities for 2021-2022 Our priorities this year are focused on community building, sustaining and celebrating LASO history and tradition, fostering a strong pipeline of... View Details

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

likely to spend extra time on a project with team members than those not eligible for extra rewards. Willing to give up happiness to spend time with colleagues. The research team also studied US Census time-use survey data between 2010... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

company can divest a subsidiary through a tax-free spin-off, management must first decide how corporate overhead will be allocated between the subsidiary and the parent. The allocation decision can be complicated by management's... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

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Clubs & Consulting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

recommendations for review. Projects run from October to April. If you think your organization could benefit from the services of our club, please complete the interest form by September 4. Created by Harbus News Corporation at HBS, the Harbus Foundation provides... View Details

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Clubs - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Clubs 46ms Student-led clubs and activities give students the opportunity to become better informed about and engaged in issues View Details

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

observed. Individuals want a sense of mastery and pleasure; relationships are important to success. The most common reason people give him and Nash is, "I want to make a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

which a person is given an amount of money, and then must decide how much of the money to give to a partner. Every dollar participants give is tripled. However, it is the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Jan 2023
What Do You Think?

How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

they want to give back. We had that too a generation ago. It was called a pension plan, and it gave back to the people who put the C-level folk in those mahogany offices. Welch was a product of the time when... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

prepared. Finally, always carve out 10 minutes at the end of the agenda to take the pulse of your team. My method is “share thumbs at one”. Count three, two, one. On one, everyone gives a thumbs up, down, or sideways. I do a quick read of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

The Heart of Business—Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

How to unleash “human magic" and achieve improbable results.

Having recently stepped down as Chairman and CEO of Best Buy, Joly shares the leadership principles – illustrated by multiple vivid and concrete stories -- that underpinned... View Details

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