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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Donation Experiment By: Katerina Linos, Laura Jakli & Melissa Carlson 2021 | American Political Science Review 115, no. 1 As government welfare programming contracts and NGOs increasingly assume core aid functions, they must address a... View Details
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Is Life Nasty, Brutish, and Short? Philosophies of Life and Well-Being

By: Michael I. Norton, Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin and Elizabeth W. Dunn
Three studies examine the extent to which laypeople endorse Thomas Hobbes' (1651) view of life as "nasty, brutish, and short" and explore the relationships between this philosophy and well-being. We asked participants to answer two binary choice questions: Is life... View Details
Keywords: Happiness; Satisfaction; Welfare
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  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

successful deployment by credible players (e.g., EDS in systems integration and outsourcing, services such as waste cleanup and welfare recipient job placement for government agencies, and many advertisers and advertising agencies), it is... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

sold - the stability, the pay, what more could I really want? I had made it so far from being the little girl on welfare helping her momma with her younger siblings. I was set to return to P&G for a second internship, and since I had... View Details
  • 09 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

negotiations is that family members generally prefer to reach mutually acceptable outcomes in their negotiations. This constructive attitude is due in no small part to the strength of family ties: Typically, family members are genuinely interested in one another's... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 09 May 2023
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Robin Williams’ Son Help Other Families Heal Addiction and Depression?

Keywords: Re: Lauren H. Cohen; Health; Entertainment & Recreation
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Globalization - Faculty & Research

State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil By: Paula Rettl 2025 | Working Paper | Faculty Research How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support parties that propose... View Details
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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Xin Meng, Nancy Qian & Xiaoxue Zhao
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

welfare of the overall firm and to its members if less powerful participants are to follow. So far we have focused on the implications of the drives to bond and to acquire and the interplay between them. The drives to learn and to defend... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • November 2008
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Getting off the Hedonic Treadmill, One Step at a Time: The Impact of Regular Religious Practice and Exercise on Well-Being

By: Daniel Mochon, Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
Many studies have shown that few events in life have a lasting impact on subjective well-being because of people's tendency to adapt quickly; worse, those events that do have a lasting impact tend to be negative. We suggest that while major events may not provide... View Details
Keywords: Health; Religion; Behavior; Happiness; Welfare
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

spending Savings and Loan bailout Chrysler bailout Breakup of AT&T Influence: Medium-Low 90 1990 s Family and Medical Leave Act Americans with Disabilities Act Welfare reform Antitrust action initiated against Microsoft Influence:... View Details
  • January 2011
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Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time

By: Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
Disagreements about the optimal level of wealth inequality underlie policy debates ranging from taxation to welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of "regular" Americans into these debates, by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Policy; Perspective; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Income; Demography; Debates; Welfare; Diversity; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
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  • 28 Oct 2022
  • Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Shirley Verónica Cardona (MBA 2012)

Tell us about your life before HBS. As a first-generation Latina who was raised by a single mom, I’ve always felt a deep urgency to advocate for those whose voices have historically been marginalized. To that end, after college I worked with a Brazilian NGO to... View Details
  • April 2008 (Revised May 2008)
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Commonwealth Care Alliance: Elderly and Disabled Care

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Individuals enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, known as dual eligibles, are among the highest-cost beneficiaries in the US. Commonwealth Care Alliance, a small nonprofit insurer and care delivery system in Massachusetts, operated under a public demonstration... View Details
Keywords: Programs; Public Sector; Alliances; Policy; Age; Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Welfare; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Digital Lending and Financial Well-Being: Through the Lens of Mobile Phone Data

By: AJ Chen, Omri Even-Tov, Jung Koo Kang and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman
To mitigate information asymmetry about borrowers in developing economies, digital lenders utilize machine-learning algorithms and nontraditional data from borrowers’ mobile devices. Consequently, digital lenders have managed to expand access to credit for millions of... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; AI and Machine Learning; Welfare; Well-being; Developing Countries and Economies; Equality and Inequality
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  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

The “Manila Water Company” case made me feel even more strongly about designing a career with social welfare as a goal, not just as an option. It also made me think differently about investing and want to encourage investing in businesses... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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Selected Digital Historical Resources – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us A New Vision An Essay by Professors Michel Anteby and Rakesh Khurana Introduction The Hawthorne Plant Employee Welfare Illumination Studies and Relay Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and... View Details
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By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details