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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing checks to View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
100 entrepreneurs show up in Cabarete, to share ideas and work on some things. We have components of what we do, that our charity environmentally-based and technology-based. One of the projects I'm trying to put together for August, we're... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-049.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbsolute Return for Kids Harvard Business School Case 309-036 Absolute Return for Kids [ARK] is a charity with strong financial support—what are the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
charity that will sap the strengths of the profit-maximizing corporation, while journalist Martin Wolf maintains that the maximization of profit is far from universally accepted, and rightly so. Chicago Nobel laureate Gary Becker wonders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
PublicationsFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior Authors:L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn Publication:In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
door to success. Getting the sequence wrong could have led to failure. Though often overlooked, sequencing matters greatly in negotiation. Whether you're trying to get the "right" people to attend a charity event, invest in a... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
of what charity can look like the summer after college. With her Harvard degree in government in hand, she signed up for a service trip and was shipped to a remote area of South Africa to help with a construction project. As she unpacked... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
the long run. This last element is critical, for there is not enough charity or taxpayer money to make a sustainable difference; only the profit motive can do that. Earning And Learning Rather than merely applying superficial aid, the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
countries that differ greatly in terms of wealth (Canada, Uganda, and India). Finally, in Study 3, participants in Canada and South Africa randomly assigned to buy items for charity reported higher levels of positive affect than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
of those children. Using data from an online charity that solicits donations for school projects, we found that proposals accompanied by images of older African American students (Grades 6-12) led to fewer donations than proposals with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
data from hospitals, we examine mispricing via "upcoding," which involves misclassifying ailment severity. Archival analysis indicates less stringent regulatory enforcement of upcoding for beneficent nonprofit hospitals, defined as hospitals that provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
out.” Gertsacov has clearly taken full advantage of his time here. A star HBS rugby and ice hockey player, he’s a gourmet chef whose Thai cooking lessons earned his section $1,600 in its charity auction. He also launched a monthly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
Chicago, the British Library, Catholic Charities USA, Fundación Paraguaya, Goodwill Industries International, the Humane Society of the United States, and Musica Viva Australia. In any given year, about half of SPNM participants represent... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
package and used her time to get involved in various volunteer and charity activities while remaining active in her industry. After teaching a course at the annual cable television marketing convention, she founded Allen Strategies, a... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
new fund. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317036-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-052 Charity or Bribery? Filip Kowalski, a senior manager at the pharmaceutical company Healthgen, leads sales for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
on racial equity and social justice matters. As reported in the Boston Globe, the group wants to support the “chronically underfunded Black and brown-led nonprofits” and “drive a sea change in how money is doled out,” making the work “less about View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
sustainable—engines of change were in fact corporations. In the province next to Veraguas, for example, the Nestlé company's dairy operation had a very similar effect to that of the bishop's movement. The big difference was that it made a profit. There isn't enough... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
the Lewis and Clark Trail combined with two subsequent annual rides — helped raise almost $500,000 for Children’s Hospital in Seattle. Next summer he plans to complete the U.S.A. Four Corners Tour, a two-month, 14,000-mile odyssey that follows the outer perimeter of... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services