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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond 'Basic Needs'

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries... View Details
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Human Needs; Income; Adaptation; Economic Growth
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  • July 2021
  • Article

Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms

By: Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato
We study the growth of online peer-to-peer markets. Using data from TaskRabbit, an expanding marketplace for domestic tasks at the time of our study, we show that growth varies considerably across cities. To disentangle the potential drivers of growth, we look... View Details
Keywords: Two-sided Market; Two-sided Platforms; Peer-to-peer Markets; Platform Strategy; Sharing Economy; Platform Growth; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Market Design; Network Effects
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    Capitalism at Risk

    The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before and raised living standards to new heights. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 came within a hair’s breadth of triggering another Great... View Details

    • Article

    Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults

    By: Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu and Fawwaz Habbal
    Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Age; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    Manuscript Variations of Dabistān-i Maẕāhib and Writing Histories of Religion in Mughal India

    By: Sudev J Sheth
    A text that has found renewed interest among scholars of early modern India is the Persian compendium of religion called Dabistān-i Maẕāhib. Written between 1645 and 1658, the Dabistān presents a lively ethnographic and historical account of customs and habits of... View Details
    Keywords: Manuscripts; Religion; History; India
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    • Web

    Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

    transcript(s), essay, official standardized test scores, two recommendations, acceptance of policies, and application fee. Read the full details of the application process. Required for Master of Science: All materials required for the... View Details
    • 17 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 17, 2006

    that the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System Standard has attracted companies with superior environmental performance. After developing quasi-control groups using propensity score matching, I also find that adopters subsequently... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2012
    • Report

    Sweden's Position in the Global Economy

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    In the spring of 2012, the Swedish economy is, as many of its peers, facing a difficult and uncertain economic environment. While these challenges are real, the Swedish economy looks much better prepared to deal with them than many of its peers. Following its own... View Details
    Keywords: Economy; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Policy; Globalization; Competitive Advantage; Sweden
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    • Program

    Authentic Leader Development

    Summary Companies need to be developing leaders who exhibit high standards of integrity, take responsibility for their actions, and make decisions based on enduring principles rather than short-term expedience. The best leaders are... View Details
    • Program

    Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

    Summary All organizations—even those with sophisticated models of risk exposure—are vulnerable to disaster. In most organizations, risk management attempts to avoid disasters by emphasizing compliance, internal controls, and conformance to View Details
    • January 2016
    • Case

    Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
    This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    $15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

    categorized these organizations using standard classifications used by the nonprofit world. So, what did we find? Scott directed funds to larger organizations The average Scott grantee took in five times more revenue than the typical... View Details
    Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
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    Dissertation: Is the Ideal Worker Still Real? Sources and Consequences of Men's Professional Identities

    My dissertation examines the implications of men's changing lives for their work identities and for gender inequality in organizations. Current theories of workplace gender inequality hinge upon the widely-shared cultural image of an "ideal worker,"... View Details

    • 26 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 26, 2006

    high-definition (HD) technology created a need for a format with greater storage capacity. Instead of agreeing on a single standard for a new HD disc, however, key players had formed two rival camps. The Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats each... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    Kodak Company, 1972–1983 William S. Farish Standard Oil of New Jersey, 1937–1942 James A. Farrell United States Steel Corporation, 1911–1932 Marshall Field III Field Enterprises (Chicago Sun/Parade Publications), 1941–1956 Marshall Field... View Details
    • 21 Feb 2007
    • Op-Ed

    What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

    As Ban Ki-moon begins his tenure as secretary-general of the United Nations, the world's poor continue to cry out for help and hope. One-sixth of the world's population lives in "deep poverty"—generally defined as surviving on... View Details
    Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
    • 05 Dec 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr
    • 16 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

    unionized, it paid well, offered benefits, and was secure. But manufacturing employment has steadily declined, from about 25% of the U.S. labor force in 1970 to less than 10% today. Now a decent living entails more than a generous wage;... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    learned? Keywords: Accounting Standards ; Bank Runs ; Financial Accounting ; Financial Reporting ; Social Media ; Banks and Banking ; Financing and Loans ; Investment Portfolio ; Interest Rates ; Debt Securities ; Risk and Uncertainty ;... View Details
    • 08 Sep 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

    less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace