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- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of back-scratching is known as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
plans that are not legally married but that have a relationship approximating marriage as well as covering tax implications through pay that accounts for tax liability for covering benefits for all partners. Another important benefit is employer View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
create only the illusion of transparency - while delaying work. Donations yield reduced value because of inefficiency and security costs. A worse problem surrounds Madrid pledges. Pledges are not the same as cash, as Afghans found.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
million in property, along with much donated time and effort from employees at Satyam. It was, in a way, a gift back to the country that has allowed him to prosper. To understand just how transformative the work of EMRI is, one must first... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Development and Demographics Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
universities—instead of innovative work at smaller and newer organizations. To address this, the Verdis and Swartzes designed the Goodness Web to pool smaller, individual donations into larger, multiyear grants and to curate the most... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
some sort of compensation for it—through donations or subscriptions. That is the path forward. How is social media changing the consumption of information and the consumer’s ability to access a diversity of ideas? —Janet Simpson Benvenuti... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
forensic accounting, the ability to adapt to clients’ needs, especially on such an enormous scale, is crucial. He points to SecondBite’s relationship with Coles, one of Australia’s largest supermarket chains, which joined the food-reuse effort. The grocery store giant... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
charity sector, volunteering for a national breast cancer foundation and within her local community, often with her son in tow. She returned to finance in 2015, but her heart wasn’t in it. That’s when businessman and philanthropist Robert F. Smith approached her about... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
Ming Min Hui (MBA 2015) that revealed retention, and engagement with Boston Ballet outside of classes, was not as high as expected. In fact, about half of adult students attended one or two classes and didn’t return, and only about 15 percent of adult students were... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had taken the theory to the real world,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
found that when you get a $25 bonus for yourself, not much happens. But if you get $25 to spend on a teammate, it makes you happier, and in some cases, it can also improve the coordination of the team. On the customer side, we’ve done experiments where a company gives... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
graduates who want to put their skills to work in Africa. “I want to do whatever I can to counter the brain drain,” he says. And he believes that his donation will be multiplied because of the School’s ability to leverage its impact. “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
largest school districts in the country, the survey found that business is involved in 95 percent of America's school districts, but mostly in a fragmented array of efforts that focus on short-term benefits for students (e.g., donating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
any other bank in Grand Rapids. It was a niche bank with only one office and no tellers; instead, it had client service officers who would call customers by their name. The other unique thing about Grand Bank was corporate tithing. Ten percent of our pretax profits... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
million fund "for targeted programs, economic initiatives and community development projects." FEBRUARY 2 Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) recently donated $1 million to the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF), a... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
senior vice president at Symantec by day, and by night—well, at least seven or eight nights a year—a no-holds-barred guitarist, vocalist, and emcee for a band that donates its earnings to local schools. The Wildcats first came together 15... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
entertainment, cultural, and sports outlets to donate tickets to victims’ families, ultimately serving more than 85 percent of the families. Seeing the trash that covered the field where his son played football led him to get involved... View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy
to travel, time to see friends and family? Do you want to live somewhere new, give back to your community, or donate to organizations?” Being thoughtful about what you want your life to look like in retirement will determine your next... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Surprise Donation Ask By: Exley, Christine L., and Ragan Petrie Abstract—Individuals frequently exploit "flexibility" built into decision environments to give less. They use uncertainty to justify options benefiting themselves... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne