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- 10 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior
- 27 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
- September 2012
- Article
Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates Distance from One's Moral Compass
By: F. Gino and A. Galinsky
In four studies employing multiple manipulations of psychological closeness, we found that feeling connected to another individual who engages in selfish or dishonest behavior leads people to vicariously justify the actions of this individual and to behave more... View Details
Gino, F., and A. Galinsky. "Vicarious Dishonesty: When Psychological Closeness Creates Distance from One's Moral Compass." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 119, no. 1 (September 2012): 15–26.
- 1998
- Working Paper
Some Evidence on the Optimal Welfare State Based on Subjective Data
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
It is often difficult to evaluate all the costs and benefits of the welfare state. This paper suggests an alternative approach based on surveys of citizen satisfaction with welfare programs. In the first part of the paper we estimate the level of unemployment benefits... View Details
- January 2020
- Article
One of a Kind: The Strong and Complex Preference for Unique Treatment from Romantic Partners
By: Lalin Anik and Ryan Hauser
Individuals prefer romantic partners who universally treat others well (i.e., partners who exhibit trait-level generosity) and also prefer partners who treat them uniquely. Previous work supports both preferences, yet the literature has largely ignored what happens... View Details
Anik, Lalin, and Ryan Hauser. "One of a Kind: The Strong and Complex Preference for Unique Treatment from Romantic Partners." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 86 (January 2020).
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-120.pdf Who Is Governing Whom? Senior Managers, Governance and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms Authors:Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee Abstract We examine how organizational structure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Working PapersFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior Authors:Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Abstract While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much
Companies donate billions of dollars every year, hoping their generosity will not only help important causes, but also attract socially conscious consumers to their brands. What companies might not realize is that people focus less on the... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?
symmetry. Another feature—facial width-to-height ratio—was a mixed bag: People with high ratios were perceived as less trustworthy and more aggressive, which outweighed their perceived generosity and dominance. Sexual dimorphism—the... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
the digital sea changes happening around us is for leaders to adopt a learning mindset and show generosity toward other people and themselves. Digitally mature companies, as it turns out, are led by people who can transition from taking... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
let everybody know that thanks to the generosity of a good friend, [INAUDIBLE], there are copies of their book that she's generously provided for everyone here. You'll find them on the way out. I want to thank Harvard Business School,... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win
you're not happy," Stevenson quipped. Significance to others can be guided by a sense of fairness, generosity and caring, but do fairness, generosity and caring help you in your achievements? Should... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
heterogeneity. Some people are extraordinarily generous, and perhaps some folks fall on the other side of the spectrum, and then everyone else is in between. Certainly, we’d like to try to shift the distribution of generosity toward the... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
have created, balancing their generosity with the need to keep some of that value for themselves. Achieving this balance may not be as easy as it seems. Keystone organizations must make sure that the value of their platforms, divided by... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
generosity around wherever they are sued, but seem to be particularly targeting areas where they can get the biggest return on investment with more eyeballs on their brands. For example, Cohen and Gurun found they were more apt to spend... View Details
- 30 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators
Calling a game “Wall Street” brings out less generosity than calling it “Community,” even though the payoffs are identical. When negotiators use words like “ultimatum,” “opponent,” and “winning,” Bazerman says they can unknowingly set the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
management don't listen or don't know how, we can't tap the full power of the amazing talent in our own organizations. Listening is learning." Rosa Urtubi added that "listening is assuming the responsibility, generosity to do something... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
generosity and knowledge-bearing have not really been guiding factors in other industries: so why would they dominate the computer field? Instead, they suggest, laboring on open source brings developers and companies specific, tangible... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
of the policy on firms and employees, the researchers compared the outcome between regions with varying generosity in the loan-guarantee program. Firms that received loan guarantees, and their employees, enjoyed far more stability than... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
more to recognize the donors' generosity than to provide orientation. Temporary signposts are selectively erected to guide new arrivals at the start of a new school year or a new program, but they are removed within days, once their... View Details
Keywords: Education