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  • June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Health Industry; Mozambique
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  • 03 Jun 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance

Keywords: by Cait Lamberton, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve & Michael I. Norton
  • 25 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

been connected before creates the potential to produce something new and useful." The question is how to reap the benefits of that while minimizing the inevitable misunderstandings. "Trying to make a movie... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 27 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Social Norms Versus Social Responsibility: Punishing Transgressions Under Conflicting Obligations

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Celia Moore & Lamar Pierce
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Does ‘Could’ Lead to Good? Toward a Theory of Moral Insight

Keywords: by Ting Zhang, Francesca Gino & Joshua D. Margolis
  • August 2020
  • Article

Does Spending Money on Others Promote Happiness? A Registered Replication Report

By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Jason Proulx, Iris Lok and Michael I. Norton
Research indicates that spending money on others—prosocial spending—leads to greater happiness than spending money on oneself (e.g., Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These findings have received widespread attention because they offer insight into why people engage... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Generosity; Well-being; Replication; Happiness; Behavior; Spending
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  • 12 Sep 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Jose Vasquez, London School of Economics

  • 20 Feb 2020
  • Op-Ed

Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.

raises and benefits so the hospital would not be forced to lay off its lowest-paid workers. In response, the State’s Attorney General (AG), charged with overseeing charities, criticized board members View Details
Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger
  • 21 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

gain access to workers' compensation data. Because the data were collected at the company level, the researchers limited their analysis to firms with only one plant, where the effects of an inspection on injury rates View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

My HBS Financial Aid Story: Why I Chose to Invest in My Future

skill set that will directly benefit me in my career. When I receive questions about financial aid from new HBS admits, I tell them three things: don’t be afraid to invest in your future, be thorough when explaining your financial... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are You a Level-Six Leader?

Builders are few and far between, but there is an even rarer type of leader who transcends the Builder: the Transcendent. Level-six leaders transcend their political party, their ethnic or racial group, and... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
  • 02 Mar 2021
  • HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

able to begin talking about such a difficult episode and fraught question.” Those opposed to reparations point to the fact that so much time has passed since the damage, and that neither the victims nor the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 May 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • 25 May 2021
  • Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

fluctuations. Zhang and her coauthors were curious whether the algorithm might help reduce racial inequalities by optimizing nightly rates for both white and Black hosts, so everyone could View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations
  • Web

About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies , the Harvard University Center for African Studies , and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University to identify new... View Details
  • 21 Feb 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Rodrigo Wagner, Tufts University

  • May 2024
  • Supplement

Forest Park Capital (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Betsy Harbison formed the search fund Forest Park Capital with the intention of purchasing a small business. The case conveys the details of Betsy’s final decision at the terminus of her search, between a software company... View Details
Keywords: Search Fund; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Tourism Industry; Web Services Industry; North America; Missouri
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Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Les Williams (MBA 2005)

strategy? Over the last 15 years I have worked in technology, real estate development, and entrepreneurship. During that time my compensation has varied, and I have adjusted my... View Details
  • Web

All Functions - Recruiting

students seeking employment. In some cases, compensation is rounded to nearest thousand. See detailed pages for exact figures. Percentages may not add to 100 due to rounding. Insights & Advice 14 Jul 2023 Becca Carnahan Building a Culture... View Details