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HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction Credit in Pre-Industrial Society Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of... View Details

1971
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Some Social Issues in the Community Development Corporations Proposal

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Social Issues; Civil Society or Community

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25 Feb 2015
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Thick as Thieves? Dishonest Behavior and Egocentric Social Networks

Keywords: by Jooa Julia Lee, Dong-Kyun Im, Bidhan L. Parmar & Francesca Gino

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

It's clear that inequality in America has grown at a fast clip in recent years. From 1980 to 2010, the top 1 percent's share of income has doubled from 10 percent to 20 percent, while the income share of the bottom 90 percent fell from 65 percent to 52 percent. Those... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Oct 2011
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Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

Keywords: by Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias & Nikolaos Trichakis; Health

27 Oct 2010
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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

Keywords: by Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, John Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James & Michael I. Norton

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 half or less of the annual... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

It will take weeks for rescuers to comb through the gruesome wreckage of Manhattan, months to piece together the madness behind the attack. We can only speculate right now about the motives that drove men into the air, into the buildings. We can only shudder at how the... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

April 5, 1987
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A War That None Can Afford to Win

Keywords: War

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1995
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Multiparty Negotiation in Its Social Context

By: J. Polzer, E. Mannix and M. Neale

Keywords: Negotiation; Society

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The Economy of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft on Eugenics, Economics and the Great Depression

By: Sophus A. Reinert

The early twentieth-century weird writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is today best remembered for his genre defining style of academic noir pulp fiction. Yet in focusing on certain tropes of his work, such as the many memorable monsters he created to populate his... View Details

Keywords: H.P. Lovecraft; Society; Economics

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2002
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Ranking National Environmental Regulation and Performance: A Leading Indicator of Future Competitiveness?

By: Daniel Esty and Michael E. Porter

This chapter from The Global Competitiveness Report analyzes the differences among countries in environmental performance and the link between environmental outcomes and national environmental policy choices. The chapter reveals the findings from an exploration... View Details

Keywords: Society; Strategy

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28 Jun 2010
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Reflections on a Hypothesis: Lessons for Policy, Research, and Corporate Practice

By: Michael E. Porter

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Keywords: Society; Strategy; Canada

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27 Apr 2012
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Regional Competitiveness and the Role of Business

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation was prepared with the assistance of Professors Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Niels Ketelhohn. The author is grateful for their important contribution to this research. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Society; Mexico

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