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Jenny Holzer Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest… 2015 | About

Jenny Holzer Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest , 2015 Jenny Holzer (American, born 1950), Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest , 2015, Carrara White marble bench. Courtesy of the artist and Cheim & Read . © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member... View Details

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Charitable Lead Trust - Alumni

distribution to your heirs Expert management services provided by Harvard at no cost to you Accelerated charitable income tax deduction in some circumstances Membership in the John C. Whitehead Society How it Works You can create a trust... View Details

12 Jul 2017
Book

What Jane Austen and Mel Brooks Can Teach Us About Finance

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Marwan Chaar

not even the energy companies we blame the most. We as a society are responsible for our environmental impact. I hope to change the way people produce and consume energy, starting in the region of the world that is the most wasteful: the... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit

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 Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit Credit and... View Details

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

When North Carolina governor Pat McCrory recently signed into law the Public Facilities Privacy & Securities Act, in response to a Charlotte city ordinance that, among other things, would have prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

March 2022
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Ukraine: On the Border of Europe and Eurasia (B)

By: Rawi Abdelal, Jonathan Schlefer and Cressida Arkwright

Supplements the (A) case. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 raised questions about democratization and a possible reshaping of the global order. It arose from deep roots in the history of both nations but also turned on contingent decisions by their... View Details

Keywords: Global Order; Social Issues; Government Administration; History; War; Ukraine; Russia

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winter 1992
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Challenging Conventional Explanations of Cooperation: Negotiation Analysis and the Case of Epistemic Communities

By: James K. Sebenius

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Cooperation; Negotiation; Civil Society or Community

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credits

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

09 Oct 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Marry Rich, Poor Girl: Investigating the Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Outcomes in India

Keywords: by Reshmaan Hussam

19 Jul 2011
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Brightening the Future

School is really about developing leaders who make a difference in the world,” he observes. “By adjusting their business paradigms to put more emphasis on adding value to society and focusing on the needs of the poor, business leaders can... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

how CEOs from major companies around the globe—Becton Dickinson, IKEA, Tata Group—made a positive difference for their employees, their customers, their community, and society while not neglecting profits. Beer cowrote the book with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Mike Cohen

impact I can have on my immediate family might not be as great as the impact they had on me, I have come to realize that it is my obligation to provide a better future for society as a whole. Injustices are still rampant in American View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Visual Collections

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

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Lynda Benglis Migrating Pedmarks 1998 | About

Lynda Benglis Migrating Pedmarks , 1998 Lynda Benglis (American, born 1941), Migrating Pedmarks , 1998, bronze with black-and-white patina. Courtesy the artist and Cheim & Read . © 2020 Lynda Benglis / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights View Details

12 Nov 2014
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Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions

Keywords: by Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis & Sunny Li Sun

24 Oct 2014
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Individual Experience of Positive and Negative Growth Is Asymmetric: Global Evidence from Subjective Well-being Data

Keywords: by Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos & Michael I. Norton

20 Jan 2011
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Testing Coleman’s Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia

Keywords: by Mikolaj J. Piskorski & Andreea Gorbatai; Publishing

01 Apr 2008
Working Paper Summaries

No Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments

Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore & Max H. Bazerman

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

HBS professor emeritus George C. Lodge's idea of a World Development Corporation has been percolating for years—he wrote a seminal article on the proposal in Foreign Affairs in 2002 (reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge). The WDC would be a for-profit organization that... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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