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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes

By: Katherine L Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay and Max H. Bazerman
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss aversion, we propose a new type of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Policy; Government Legislation; Outcome or Result; Welfare
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  • 29 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Insights from My First Year at HBS

classes are all taught through case method, which means there are no lectures. Instead, professors facilitate a discussion on the case the class reads the night before. I initially found it challenging to speak up and speak out on topics where I had a different point... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

HBS Faculty Member Honored

Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility,” the coauthors propose a way for firms to contribute to social welfare without sacrificing corporate success. Porter was also honored (with coauthor Elizabeth Olmsted... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS

Yunus Microlending pioneer Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, told HBS students in April that “all human beings are entrepreneurs, even the poorest of the poor,” as he discovered after helping beggars in Bangladesh... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Alumni News | Book Briefs

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights: The Escalating Battle over Who Decides What We Eat by David E. Gumpert (OPM 5, 1981) (Chelsea Green Publishing) Do Americans have the right to get their food from farmers, neighbors, and local producers? Yes, say Gumpert... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 12 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

primarily by the sale of the glasses themselves. VisionSpring is what organization scholars call a "hybrid" social venture, since it combines the social welfare logic of a nonprofit and the commercial logic of a for-profit business. When... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Water for Life

for reliable, affordable water service. Nearly two of every three gallons of water pumped through the dilapidated distribution system were lost or stolen. Desperate for a remedy, the Philippine government invited the private sector to... View Details
Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

  Working PapersThe First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures Authors:Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman Abstract This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June

moderate discussions among prominent business leaders from around the world. The topics to be considered -- such as "The Future of the European Welfare State," "Entrepreneurship in Europe," "Corporate Governance: Converging toward a... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 25

  Working PapersAnger and Regulation Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan DubraNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009 Abstract We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2014
  • Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

exclusively on advancing US welfare with particular attention on reforms that will improve American wages” While these transactions naturally attract growing attention, inversions are merely the most visible manifestation of these... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
  • July 2009 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

From Little Things Big Things Grow: The Clontarf Foundation Program for Aboriginal Boys

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Michael Vitale
This case focuses on the growth of an innovative non-profit institution that motivates aboriginal children to attend school by harnessing their love of football. View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Welfare; Education; Sports; Service Industry
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  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

receive a 5 percent pay increase, and want to know whether to be happy or not, you find out the increases of your colleagues to create meaning of the 5 percent. People do not choose less for themselves. If I ask people whether they would... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • Student-Profile

Sagar Saxena

While applying for graduate programs, Sagar Saxena (he/him) was unsure about whether he had the right background to pursue a PhD in Business Economics at HBS because he had not taken graduate-level courses in mathematics or economics.... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

the history of work where the nature of work as we’ve known it has been disrupted, whether we embrace it or not,” says Neeley, author of Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere. “All or nothing is... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • Web

Building Trusted Organizations - Course Catalog

organization’s ability to deliver products and services they can trust, or through breaches of integrity —when questions of motives, personal ethics, and a commitment to others’ wellbeing come into play. It... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

Delphi debt, or to speculate on future Delphi bond prices. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210002-PDF-ENG Denmark: Globalization and the Welfare State Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2013
  • News

All in Good Time

Andrea Silbert Financial analyst. Grassroots organizer. Social entrepreneur. Candidate for political office. These are just a few of the titles held by Andrea Silbert (MBA 1991 / MPA 1992) over the years. Now president of the Boston-based Eos Foundation, a... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264038 Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

  Publications September 2014 Cambridge University Press Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare By: Trumbull, Gunnar Abstract—Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne