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  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Taylor R. M. Keen

master," he says admiringly. After college, Keen served as a management trainee for Bath Iron Works, the Maine shipbuilding firm. Guided by the Native American philosophy that "any decision you make should consider the welfare of the next... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality

By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
Recent influential work finds large increases in inequality in the U.S. based on measures of wealth concentration that notably exclude the value of social insurance programs. This paper shows that top wealth shares have not changed much over the last three decades when... View Details
Keywords: Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Taxation; Insurance; Welfare
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  • March 2000
  • Background Note

Fall Before Rising, A: The Story of Jai Jaikumar (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Richard Compton Squire, Sarah Patricia Vickers-Willis and Harry James Wilson
What is the relationship between good fortune, professional success, and a moral obligation to other people? Jai Jaikumar, who as a youth was saved by a shepherd woman after a tragic mountaineering accident in the Himalayas, and who later rose to the top of his... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; History; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Familiarity; Perception; Welfare
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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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  • 03 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Business of Animal Protection Club

limited concentration at Harvard Business School? That issue is animal protection. The change in attitude towards animals is undeniable. Animal welfare ballot initiatives receive bipartisan support across red and blue states. Roughly... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Going Public: Shari P. Hubert

smile talks about her experience tutoring a single mother on welfare as a volunteer in Boston City Hospital's Adult Literacy Program. "This woman was smart, motivated, and capable," recalls Hubert, who met with her student twice a week,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

nurtured and maintained. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415783135 2013 pub The Welfare State as an Investment Strategy: Denmark's Flexicurity Policies By: Daemmrich, Arthur, and Thomas Bredgaard Abstract—No abstract available... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

of the domestic economy. Moreover, we illustrate that gray markets may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length transfer prices between international subsidiaries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

and Jonathan T. Kolstad Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We consider the welfare economics of firm entry when input supply is inelastic. Prior studies suggest that with elastic supply of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets serve to justify regulatory intervention. I argue that this causal logic must sometimes be reversed. For certain areas of regulation, its function must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

  Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

transactional planners responded to these differences in standards of judicial review; that these differences in judicial scrutiny created differences in outcomes for the minority shareholders; and that differences in outcomes created a social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

countries; seemingly successful governments that had managed to reform economies were defeated by newcomers that promised more emphasis on the welfare state. This clash was interesting to us. Many economists advocate including a tax... View Details
Keywords: by 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
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Real Conflict

competing operations, driving employees toward public welfare systems, and creating urban sprawl. The savings to Wal-Mart customers appears large in relation to the surplus that it passes on to its stockholders. In recent years, the... View Details
Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • Profile

Mallika Ahluwalia

welfare grant policy," Mallika says. "It gave me exposure to many different stakeholders." But the job also revealed weaknesses in the program's approach. "On the one hand, the monthly food rations were essential –... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

which recruits at-risk youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops). It monitors employee progress and tries to quantify the costs each represents to society. It then tracks how that cost structure changes due to the nonprofit's intervention. "If employees go off View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

University Elections

Media. Los Angeles, CA. Richard N. Zare, AB ’61, Ph.D. ’64. Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor in Natural Science, Stanford University. Stanford, CA. Candidates for HAA Director The purpose of the Harvard Alumni Association is to promote the View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

The Meaning of Ramadi

servant leadership is the only leadership model that works over the long run. Simply put, servant leadership demands that a leader place the mission’s goals and values first, the team and its individuals second, and the leader’s own View Details
Keywords: Donovan Campbell; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

increase their allocation to growth stocks as a result of their desire to optimally increase their overall allocation to equities. We also explore the welfare implications of adopting the optimal dynamic rebalancing strategy vis-à-vis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne