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  • 19 Jan 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: How do I lead in a crisis? What roles does the Board play? What are the emotional needs of people who lay... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Profile

Michael R. Bloomberg

Bloomberg Philanthropies works to improve lives by focusing on the arts, education, the environment, government innovation, public health, and accelerating the pace of Black wealth accumulation. In 2017, together with Harvard Kennedy... View Details
  • Article

Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness

By: Melanie Rudd, Jennifer Aaker and Michael I. Norton
Across six field and laboratory experiments, participants assigned a more concretely-framed prosocial goal (e.g., making someone smile or increasing recycling) felt happier and reported creating greater personal happiness after performing a goal-directed act of... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Goal Framing; Affective Forecasting; Goals and Objectives; Happiness; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 22 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

Foundation (DRK) – a venture philanthropy firm. The Initiative also partially funded my internship through its Summer Fellows Program, a sponsorship designed to help students explore career opportunities in social enterprise.  In... View Details
  • Web

Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets

interested in the study of Africa. Global Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s large collection of business leaders’ oral histories includes interviews of business and philanthropy in Peru... View Details
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Motivated Errors

By: Christine L Exley and Judd B. Kessler
In three sets of experiments involving 5,432 subjects, we show that agents make more errors when doing so allows them to justify selfish behavior. We show that errors relating to addition arise when they can help to justify selfishness but are eliminated when selfish... View Details
Keywords: Information; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Reaching Out

a global institution devoted to expanding low-income women's economic access, participation, and power. The second half of her summer was devoted to fieldwork with ImpactPartners, a venture philanthropy organization that assists... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance
  • Profile

Jeff Nelson

upon others. They’re a guide to how you might approach different situations after you leave HBS.” HBS activities have already opened opportunities for applying newly learned business practices. Through the Harbus Foundation, a student-run nonprofit, Jeff led a... View Details
  • 18 Nov 2021
  • News

Strength in Numbers

opportunity to invest in preventative care, earlier diagnosis, and a support system closer to the onset of illness.” The data also reveals that, despite such apparent needs, mental health philanthropy is rarely prioritized; most large... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Crowdfunding as 'Donations': Theory & Evidence

By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Toke Reichstein and Francesco Rullani
For a wide class of crowdfunding approaches, we argue that the reward structure (for funders) is closer to that of charitable donations to public goods than it is to traditional entrepreneurial finance. Many features of the design of crowdfunding platforms can... View Details
Keywords: Crowdfunding Platforms; Entrepreneurial Finance; Free-riding; Voluntary Contributions To Public Goods; Online Technology; Entrepreneurship; Social and Collaborative Networks; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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  • January 2013
  • Supplement

The Great East Japan Earthquake (E): Yamato Transport's Response

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Leonard Kosinski, Christina Royce, Anna Stetsovskaya and Evgeny Vasilyev
CEO Kikawa of Yamato Transport gave orders to his managers right after the triple disaster hit the Tohoku region of Japan to do whatever it takes to save lives and not to worry about costs. He also felt that he had to confront the government to make donations to the... View Details
Keywords: Japan; Earthquake; Yamato Transport Company; Natural Disasters; Business and Shareholder Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Transportation Industry; Japan
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  • March 2022
  • Article

When Less Is More: Consumers Prefer Brands that Donate More in Relative versus Absolute Terms

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Anne V. Wilson and Leslie K. John
When trying to make a good impression on consumers through charitable giving, is it better for brands to maximize the overall dollars they donate or how much they give in relative terms; for example, the proportion of profits? Across five studies we show that consumers... View Details
Keywords: Cause-related Marketing; Charitable Donations; Generosity; Altruism; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Brands and Branding; Consumer Behavior
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  • Profile

Leo Markel

Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? I came to Harvard Business School to further develop my leadership ability. While confident in my analytical skills, I recognized that I did not have the leadership skills necessary to achieve my... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Other Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government
  • 10 Aug 2022
  • News

Generosity Multiplied

wasn’t all already here on the platform. We’ve created a really good marketplace, and match funding is the key that unlocks a lot of the potential.” Now Reed wants to share the platform’s design—what he calls “phil-tech” for philanthropy... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 26 May 2016
  • News

Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results Chairman and Cofounder, The Bridgespan Group When Tom Tierney announced that he intended to step down from the top spot at Bain & Company, several of his colleagues thought he should have his head... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 18 Sep 2017
  • News

Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact

findings from the 1,020 responses: philanthropy is “extremely” or “very” important to more than 63 percent of respondents; a sense of responsibility is the primary motivation (84 percent); and almost half of the survey’s participants... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Scientific Research and Development Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • July 2005 (Revised June 2006)
  • Case

Narayana Murthy and Compassionate Capitalism

By: William W. George, Shailendra Jit Singh and Andrew N. McLean
Narayana Murthy's roles at Infosys Technologies--as a co-founder, longtime CEO, and nonexecutive chairman and chief mentor--has been marked by explosive growth, demanding management challenges, and widely lauded company leadership. His personal leadership philosophy... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Economic Systems; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Biography; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • September 1998 (Revised May 2004)
  • Case

Becton Dickinson: Ethics and Business Practices (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine
Becton Dickinson's Global One-Company Operations Group must decide on the company's global policy on gifts, gratuities, and business entertainment. A central issue is whether the policy should be established centrally and made uniform worldwide or whether it should be... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Ethics; Law; Organizational Culture; Business Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Global Strategy; Trade; Business or Company Management
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  • Web

Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

a corporate philanthropy objective and the work a nonprofit can carry out locally, nationally, and internationally. I worked on translating social service programs into an investment product such that a sophisticated funder can look at it... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. That's the insight into the secret of happiness by HBS professor Michael... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert