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- 24 Jul 2018
- Op-Ed
4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World
harness the power of business to address some of society’s most significant problems, not as a separate part of employees’ lives—businessperson by day, volunteer by night—but as an integrated whole, working in a profitable company that...
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by George Serafeim
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
mainstream press, led to the 2011 book The Progress Principle—a guide for managers who want to provide catalysts for progress among their employees. But the research also revealed a more meta result: Amabile realized the extent to which people View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
low "excludability" in the sense that the designed artifact must be shared. Our paper is based on an empirical study of a commons organization created to design new school buildings. We argue that the design commons organization induced teachers to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
desire to appear prosocial and not to appear greedy—relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Experimental results support this possibility. Individuals with past histories of volunteering are less...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards
detail, nonprofit boards are often larger, have more committees, and have a very different trustee life cycle. Further, as Chapter Seven describes, the heart of the governance process is a volunteer nonexecutive chairman and View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51050 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry Abstract—Volunteers provide a large source of labor in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved, the answer is theoretically unclear, and corresponding empirical evidence is mixed. I overcome this ambiguity by examining individuals for whom the greedy signal strength is likely weak—those with public...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers working towards ideological, rather than financial, ends. Their founders are often intense,...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
will require leaders who can build and lead what he terms "dual operating systems," staffing innovative networks with volunteers from the existing hierarchy, comprising a "guiding coalition" that can coordinate the...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
information and assumptions went into the process, and to know how susceptible the conclusion is to small changes." Referring to an example of Royal Dutch Shell's early scenario planning efforts, Hugh Quick volunteered that "I...
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by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
focuses on improving health care access, investing nearly 500,000 skill-based volunteer hours since 2004. It works with non-profit community health centers that provide primary care to underserved communities to build health worker skills...
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- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
so that volunteers (often customers, but also others) can easily contribute content (opinions and ratings for Zagat guides), "stuff for sale" (eBay online marketplace), behavioral data (Google's search engine algorithm), and...
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by Jim Heskett
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
helping intentions; in other words, those participants who did not dehumanize outgroup victims were the individuals most likely to report volunteering for hurricane relief efforts. Internet Companies' Growth Strategies: Determinants of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
hundred and fifty volunteers helped screen and interview the applicants who met the September 6 deadline. Winning applicants then received hands-on coaching from McKinsey & Co. and Springboard to help them refine their business models...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
service program called Unis-Cite, in which youth, particularly from the disadvantaged immigrant population, volunteered nine months of their time to work on community projects. Based in Paris, France, Unis-Cite had begun to expand to...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on the pillars of health, housing, citizenship, income, and education. After...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
uses volunteers to analyze what users do online—what websites they visit, how long they stay there, and, for the top 100 e-commerce sites, what specific products they purchase. By putting together the two databases—combining more than...
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- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
discussing doing something empirical to test this notion of an ethical gap," Deshpandé says. The team developed 62 questions based on the principles in their newly created codex, and then pilot-tested their survey with volunteers...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
online than with the community outside their door. Companies often limit their community engagement to contributions to nonprofits or organizing volunteer opportunities. "Traditionally, the way these companies engage is through a...
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