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- 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.)
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong In every life there is room to improve—particularly if we redirect our efforts in the direction of greater good for all beings.... View Details
- 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
- August 2017
- Teaching Note
Cotopaxi: Managing Growth for Good
By: Andy Wu and Laura Huang
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-488. View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Public Action for Public Goods
By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
Banerjee, Abhijit, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan. "Public Action for Public Goods." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-061, April 2007.
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
For the Good of Society
granted today—the nonprofit sector and philanthropy—didn’t exist in the mid-‘90s. The idea of being of service to others, to help break cycles of intergenerational poverty, has felt to me as the highest possible calling. What a privilege... View Details
- 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
- Book
Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good
Supercorp is based on a 3-year study involving more than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and... View Details
Kanter, Rosabeth M. Supercorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Opportunity, Profits, Growth, and Social Good. New York: Crown Business, 2009.
- 28 Mar 2012
- News
The good intentions that will kill your business
- 2022
- Chapter
Redirecting Rawlsian Reasoning Toward the Greater Good
By: Joshua D. Greene, Karen Huang and Max Bazerman
In A Theory of Justice, John Rawls employed the ‘veil of Ignorance’ as a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial thinking. By imagining the choices of decision-makers who are blind to biasing information, one might see more clearly the organizing... View Details
Greene, Joshua D., Karen Huang, and Max Bazerman. "Redirecting Rawlsian Reasoning Toward the Greater Good." Chap. 15 in The Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, edited by Manuel Vargas and John M. Doris, 246–261. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Turning Point: In Good Company
Aparna Piramal Raje (MBA 2002) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Aparna Piramal Raje (MBA 2002) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) There have been many turning points in my journey of living with bipolar disorder over the last 20 years. HBS has been an integral part of the... View Details
- August 1995
- Article
Environmental Taxes on Intermediate and Final Goods When Both Can Be Imported
By: J. J. Rotemberg and James M. Poterba
Rotemberg, J. J., and James M. Poterba. "Environmental Taxes on Intermediate and Final Goods When Both Can Be Imported." International Tax and Public Finance 2 (August 1995): 221–228.
- 04 Apr 2016
- News
Data Collection is the Ultimate Public Good
- 28 May 2019
- News
Impact: Toward the Greater Good
Recognizing that business is an important driver in creating prosperity both for individuals and for communities around the world, Harvard Business School educates leaders who have the capacity to address complex challenges View Details
- November 26, 2019
- Article
Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good
By: Karen Huang, Joshua D. Greene and Max Bazerman
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
Huang, Karen, Joshua D. Greene, and Max Bazerman. "Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 48 (November 26, 2019).
- April 2008
- Teaching Note
Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad (Brief Case)
By: Michael Beer and Elizabeth Collins
Teaching note for case # 2175 View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- News
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning Favors the Greater Good
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision-making by denying decision-makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options. Veil-of-ignorance reasoning was... View Details
- July 2016
- Article
Taxation, Corruption, and Growth
By: Philippe Aghion, Ufuk Akcigit, Julia Cagé and William R. Kerr
We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive benefits from public infrastructure.... View Details
Keywords: Endogenous Growth; Public Goods; Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Taxation; Economic Growth
Aghion, Philippe, Ufuk Akcigit, Julia Cagé, and William R. Kerr. "Taxation, Corruption, and Growth." Special Issue on The Economics of Entrepreneurship. European Economic Review 86 (July 2016): 24–51.