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- 04 Apr 2012
- News
Is It Better to Promote From Within?
- 03 Feb 2016
- News
Ethical investing - putting your money where your mouth is
- January 10, 2022
- Article
The Link Between Income, Income Inequality, and Prosocial Behavior Around the World: A Multiverse Approach
By: Lucia Macchia and Ashley V. Whillans
The questions of whether high-income individuals are more prosocial than low-income individuals and whether income inequality moderates this effect have received extensive attention. We shed new light on this topic by analyzing a large-scale dataset with a... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Behavior; Income Inequality; Behavior; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Income
Macchia, Lucia, and Ashley V. Whillans. "The Link Between Income, Income Inequality, and Prosocial Behavior Around the World: A Multiverse Approach." Social Psychology (January 10, 2022): 375–386.
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Liberals: Obama Doesn't Compromise, He Caves
- 23 Mar 2016
- News
You’re Excited, Not Nervous. You Just Keep Telling Yourself That.
- 20 Jun 2017
- News
How Obama Won The French Election
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
appear prosocial and not to appear greedy—relates to individuals' volunteer reputations. Experimental results support this possibility. Individuals with past histories of volunteering are less responsive to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM EDT, 20 Apr 2016
Alumni: 101
There are 80,000+ HBS alumni around the world. Welcome to your new network. Before you go off and forget about us, join us for a primer on how to be an HBS alumnus. We'll have beer and wine and snacks and information regarding joining Alumni Clubs, using the Alumni... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment During WWII
By: Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
This paper documents that the Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for Black men than for white men and the Black-white gap was larger in counties with higher levels of... View Details
Keywords: State Capacity; Institutions; War; History; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Government Administration
Qian, Nancy, and Marco Tabellini. "Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment During WWII." Review of Economic Studies (forthcoming). (Pre-published online May 22, 2025. Available also from KelloggInsight, HBS Working Knowledge, and NBER.)
- 28 Dec 2018
- News
Answering a quick video call to help a blind person is ‘so awesome’
- 4 PM – 6 PM EDT, 18 Apr 2017
- HBS Alumni Events
Alumni 101
There are 80,000+ HBS alumni around the world. Welcome to your new network. Before you go off and forget about us, join us for a primer on how to be an HBS alumnus. We'll have beer and wine and snacks and information regarding joining Alumni Clubs, using the Alumni... View Details
- 21 Apr 2017
- News
Can a French Political Upstart Ride Obama's Strategy to Victory?
- February 2007 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Wikipedia (A)
By: Karim R. Lakhani and Andrew P. McAfee
Wikipedia has emerged as a robust model for content production by volunteers working asynchronously on the Internet with a unconventional model for distributed decision making. The "Articles for Deletion" process in Wikipedia provides unique insight into the inner... View Details
- March 2009 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Yelp
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, David Chen and Aaron Smith
Yelp was a popular online destination for reviews of local establishments, written by volunteer Internet users and read by 60 million people per month. However, the company was far from profitable. The CEO needs to decide between two options to increase the revenue.... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
Cheater’s High: Why Not Playing Fair Feels So Good
- December 2018 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Instituto Dara: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale
By: Julie Battilana, Marissa Kimsey, Priscilla Zogbi and Johanna Mair
Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Instituto Dara in 1991 to help poor families break the cycle of poverty and illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on... View Details
Keywords: Social Innovation; NGO; Scaling; Health; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Non-Governmental Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Poverty; Health Industry; South America; Brazil
Battilana, Julie, Marissa Kimsey, Priscilla Zogbi, and Johanna Mair. "Instituto Dara: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale." Harvard Business School Case 419-048, December 2018. (Revised July 2023.)
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Instead Of Showing Off Wealth, Some Show Off Busy Schedules
Kevin P. Mohan
Kevin Mohan joined the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School in 2012 after a long career as a private equity investor. He teaches Negotiation in the MBA program and the Owners, Presidents, and Managers program. He also teaches War... View Details