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- 20 Jun 2017
- News
How Obama Won The French Election
- 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...
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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.
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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.
- 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...
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- 28 Dec 2018
- News
Answering a quick video call to help a blind person is ‘so awesome’
- 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...
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- 06 Sep 2013
- News
Cheater’s High: Why Not Playing Fair Feels So Good
- 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....
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- 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...
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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
- July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
The Robin Hood Army
By: Susanna Gallani
In 2014, Neel Ghose and a handful of friends spent one evening distributing excess food they had collected from local restaurants to the less fortunate people living under the Hauz Khas flyover in South Delhi. Four years later, this initiative had developed into The...
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Keywords:
Volunteer-based Organization;
Food Redistribution;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Food;
Human Needs;
Expansion;
Global Range;
Growth and Development
Gallani, Susanna. "The Robin Hood Army." Harvard Business School Case 119-007, July 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- 04 Nov 2015
- News
A New Study Suggests That Sleeping on a Decision Might Not Do Much
- 10 Feb 2017
- News
How to negotiate the best job package
- January 2015
- Case
Marie Trellu-Kane at Unis-Cité: Establishing Youth Service in France
By: Julie Battilana, Michel Anteby and Anne-Claire Pache
Marie Trellu-Kane is trying to decide how Unis-Cité should respond to French President Jacques Chirac's announcement in 2005 of a new national voluntary civil service program. Since 1994, Trellu-Kane and her co-founders had been creating and overseeing a civil service...
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Keywords:
Expansion;
Leadership;
Non-profit Management;
Government And Business;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Social Enterprise;
Paris
Battilana, Julie, Michel Anteby, and Anne-Claire Pache. "Marie Trellu-Kane at Unis-Cité: Establishing Youth Service in France." Harvard Business School Case 415-035, January 2015.
- June 2007 (Revised December 2008)
- Case
Marie Trellu-Kane at Unis-Cite
By: Michel Anteby, Julie Battilana and Anne-Claire Pache
Marie Trellu-Kane is trying to decide how Unis-Cite should respond to French President Jacques Chirac's announcement in 2005 of a new national voluntary civil service program. Since 1994, Trellu-Kane and her co-founders had been creating and overseeing a civil service...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Social Enterprise;
Paris
Anteby, Michel, Julie Battilana, and Anne-Claire Pache. "Marie Trellu-Kane at Unis-Cite." Harvard Business School Case 407-106, June 2007. (Revised December 2008.)
- 10 Jun 2017
- News