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  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

welfare enhancing. In this case, the net cost of both contracting directly on an aggregate measure and exploiting career incentives based on disaggregated measures is smaller than the cost of contracting directly on disaggregate measures.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial Behavior

By: Francesca Gino and Sreedhari D. Desai
Four experiments demonstrated that recalling memories from one's own childhood lead people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Moral Sensibility; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Organizational Culture; Behavior; Emotions; Personal Characteristics; Welfare
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  • April 2007 (Revised June 2007)
  • Case

Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (A)

By: Laura Alfaro, Eric D. Werker and Renee Kim
At the 2005 Group of Eight summit, world leaders agreed to relieve the world's poorest countries' debt burdens and double aid to Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; International Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Poverty; Welfare; Africa
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  • August 2011 (Revised May 2012)
  • Supplement

Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (B)

By: Tarun Khanna and Tanya Bijlani
Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore and has grown to twelve locations across India. The hospital plans to build 300-bed secondary-care hospitals in smaller cities across India, with a goal to operate 30,000 beds in... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Growth and Development Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Social Enterprise; Health Care and Treatment; Poverty; Welfare; Health Industry; Bangalore; Cayman Islands; Africa
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  • 13 May 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

ago. It has done more for China's small- and medium-sized enterprises than any government policy, ministry, or bank. Alibaba's only limits are those imposed by the speed at which these enterprises continue to grow. Health and welfare... View Details
Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

valuable balance for the welfare of the country, one could make a similar case for the balance achieved by the for-profit, nonprofit, and public sectors." The analysis and prescriptions Grossman offers make their own contribution to... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
  • Web

IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
  • Web

What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

this.” — Hans Hoogervorst, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands “Redefining Health Care presents a fresh, clear-eyed view of the problems of the American health care system, and shows how value-based competition is the... View Details
  • March 2007 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry Herman
Deals with approaches to alleviating poverty and how firms, governments, and NGOs are able to work together to accomplish these goals. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Nutrition; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare
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  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2010
  • Article

Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004

By: Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury
We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that politically connected firms with more extensive outsourcing activities have... View Details
Keywords: Political Economy; Accounting Information; Accruals Management; Campaign Contributions; Discretionary Accruals; Election Outcomes; Political Currency; Political Process; Social Issues; Political Elections; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Welfare; United States
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  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

identify the change to welfare when demand-enhancing effects are considered generally. Finally, we present some solutions to the challenge of identifying welfare effects, and we suggest guidelines for future... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial, and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

piping. Standard welfare economics teaches us that either subsidies or Pigouvian fines can solve that problem, but both solutions are problematic when institutions are weak. Subsidies lead to waste and corruption; fines lead to extortion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

addressed by recent studies. They argue that business groups are responses to different economic conditions and that, from a welfare standpoint, they can sometimes be "paragons" and, at other times, "parasites." The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

to protect waste management as an employment opportunity for the predominantly poor and female workforce, who are able to become formalized workers and access certain social welfare protections through the linking of social protection... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Steven Rogers

always been proud of maintaining my ethnic identity while also being a part of the broader community.” Rogers likes to say that he put an end to the cycle of welfare in his family, and he is quick to emphasize that he did not do it alone.... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Retail Trade
  • March 2007 (Revised December 2007)
  • Background Note

Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Laura Winig and Kerry Herman
Provides successful models of private-public sector cooperatives in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare
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  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

increasingly valuable offerings change where households go online, but not their general online attention patterns. This conclusion has important implications for competition and welfare in other markets for attention. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

and welfare. We find three main results. First, we show that allowing patent pools may reduce welfare when standards are negotiated and patent pools need to be ex-post incentive compatible. Second, we show that ranking combinations of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne