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18 Mar 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Thanks for Nothing: Expressing Gratitude Invites Exploitation by Competitors

Keywords: by Jeremy Yip, Kelly Kiyeon Lee, Cindy Chan, and Alison Wood Brooks

2015
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Lennox-Choate

In 2013, Howard Fischer (hedge fund founder) and Eric Jacobsen (serial entrepreneur and private equity investor) established Gratitude Railroad as a community of impact investors in nine different "tracks." Each track represented a different concept for using... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investing; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Social Change; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; United States

2016
Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Teaching note for case 316-047 View Details

March 2016
Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

June 2010
Article

A Little Thanks Goes a Long Way: Explaining Why Gratitude Expressions Motivate Prosocial Behavior

By: A. Grant and F. Gino

Keywords: Behavior; Society

December 2022
Article

Kindness in Short Supply: Evidence for Inadequate Prosocial Input

By: Jennifer E. Abel, Preeti Vani, Nicole Abi-Esber, Hayley Blunden and Juliana Schroeder

In everyday life, people often have opportunities to improve others’ lives, whether offering well-intentioned advice or complimenting someone on a job well done. These are opportunities to provide “prosocial input” (information intended to benefit others), including... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Input; Gratitude; Feedback; Advice; Behavior; Interpersonal Communication

Article

Give What You Get: Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus Apella) and 4-Year-Old Children Pay Forward Positive and Negative Outcomes to Conspecifics.

By: Kristin L. Leimgruber, Adrian F. Ward, Jane Widness, Michael I. Norton, Kristina R. Olson, Kurt Gray and Laurie R. Santos

The breadth of human generosity is unparalleled in the natural world, and much research has explored the mechanisms underlying and motivating human prosocial behavior. Recent work has focused on the spread of prosocial behavior within groups through paying-it-forward,... View Details

Keywords: Prosociality; Reciprocity; Cooperation; Gratitude; Affect; Behavior

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27 Nov 2013
News

The Big Benefits of a Little Thanks

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Gratitude Invites Exploitation by Competitors By: Yip, Jeremy, Kelly Kiyeon Lee, Cindy Chan, and Alison Wood Brooks Abstract—Previous research has revealed that expressing gratitude motivates prosocial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jul 2022
Video

MBA Program Chair Jan Rivkin’s Message to the Classes of 2023 and 2024

02 Jun 2021
News

Four Tips To Help Create A Culture Of Authentic Appreciation At Work

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

I graduated from Harvard Business School last month with 900 indomitable classmates as part of the Class of 2021. I feel a deep sense of gratitude to my family, friends, colleagues, and everyone else who made this journey from Bombay to... View Details

24 Nov 2021
Blog Post

What Are You Grateful For?

For many in the U.S., Thanksgiving marks the beginning of the holiday season and is a day to gather with family, friends, and loved ones. In that spirit of gratitude and thanks, we reached out to our Admissions student ambassadors and... View Details

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MBA Fellowships 2012

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

grateful for was the opportunity to understand and live through a wide variety of circumstances. It built my empathy towards others and instilled in me a sense of gratitude for the small things in life. I went to MIT undergrad and studied... View Details

09 Oct 2015
Blog Post

3 Myths About HBS

to prospective applicants, I realize that these “themes” persist, as so many people ask the same questions that I did over two years ago. It has now been a little over two years since I first entered my section classroom, and I find myself smiling with View Details

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MBA Fellowships 2013

18 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

effects of white privilege on a daily basis like many of us feel the effects of racism. Now take the feelings of inclusion, relief, safety, and gratitude and describe the opposite. Recognizing your privilege also means recognizing someone... View Details

May 2024
Article

Relational Attributions for One’s Own Resilience Predict Compassion for Others

By: Rachel Ruttan, Ting Zhang, Sivahn Barli and Katherine DeCelles

Existing work on attribution theory distinguishes between external and internal attributions (i.e., “I overcame adversity due to luck” vs. “my own effort”). We introduce the construct of relational resilience attributions (i.e., “due to help from other people”) as a... View Details

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Forecasting and Prediction; Attitudes; Behavior