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  • 12 Jun 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Public Action for Public Goods

Keywords: by Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer & Rohini Somanathan
  • 09 Nov 2022
  • News

Public Good

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn When she joined United Way Miami in August as the organization’s CEO, Symeria Hudson (MBA 1997) made a Friday her first day on the job so she could use the weekend to reflect on all she’d seen and heard. Going forward, she’s stuck... View Details
Keywords: nonprofit management; social enterprise; leadership; United Way; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 1983
  • Article

Public Insurance Provision and Non-Market Failures

By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
Keywords: Insurance; Failure
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Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Public Insurance Provision and Non-Market Failures." Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 8 (1983).
  • 2007
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Public Action for Public Goods

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
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Banerjee, Abhijit, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan. "Public Action for Public Goods." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 12911, February 2007.
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Public Action for Public Goods

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
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Banerjee, Abhijit, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan. "Public Action for Public Goods." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-061, April 2007.
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Private capital, public good

US in 2011, a nonprofit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress. “The vision of expanding opportunity, by applying the rigor and discipline of markets to public goals, is what compelled me to launch Social... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2014
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Private Sector, Public Good

Keywords: Management
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

this is not what business does or should do, Henderson said. “If managers can support public institutions and provide public goods and make money, why aren't they?” "They... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Apr 2016
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Data Collection is the Ultimate Public Good

  • 02 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy
  • 4 May 2012 - 2012
  • Conference Presentation

Corporate Power & Public Good

By: Lynn S. Paine
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Paine, Lynn S. "Corporate Power & Public Good." Paper presented at the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May 2012.
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Google Research, AI for Social Good Award, Public Health

By: Himabindu Lakkaraju
Winner of the 2021 Google AI for Social Good Award in the Public Health category. View Details
  • December 2013 (Revised December 2014)
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Reform in the Chicago Public Schools

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Katrina Flanagan
In 2012, the Chicago Teachers' Union went on strike over proposed reforms by the city's mayor, Rahm Emanuel. At the heart of the reforms, and the strike, was frustration over many decades of underperformance in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and a surge of... View Details
Keywords: Public Education; Public Goods; Samuelson Rule; Externalities And Pigouvian Corrections; Tiebout Sorting And Efficiency; Education; Labor Unions; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Chicago
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Weinzierl, Matthew, and Katrina Flanagan. "Reform in the Chicago Public Schools." Harvard Business School Case 714-027, December 2013. (Revised December 2014.)
  • 1978
  • Article

An Incentive Compatible Planning Procedure for Public Good Production

By: Jerry R. Green and Jean-Jacques Laffont
It is only recently that economic theorists have faced the fact that the proposed allocation mechanisms in economies with public goods might have bad incentive properties. In this paper we introduce a new planning procedure such that truthful revelation of the marginal... View Details
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Green, Jerry R., and Jean-Jacques Laffont. "An Incentive Compatible Planning Procedure for Public Good Production." Scandinavian Journal of Economics 80, no. 1 (1978): 20–33.
  • 28 Feb 2008
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Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India

Keywords: by Abhijit Banerjee & Lakshmi Iyer
  • October 2021
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CrisisReady: Private Data for Public Good

By: Tarun Khanna and James Barnett
In October 2021, CRISISREADY.io considers how and if it should scale operations. View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Ethics; Globalization; Governance; Government and Politics; Intellectual Property; Science; Technology
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Khanna, Tarun, and James Barnett. "CrisisReady: Private Data for Public Good." Harvard Business School Case 722-362, October 2021.
  • 2014
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Corporate Power and the Public Good

By: Lynn S. Paine
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Paine, Lynn S. "Corporate Power and the Public Good." Chap. 2 in Corporations and Citizenship, edited by Greg Urban. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014.
  • 2016
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Market Design for Altruistic Supply: Evidence from the Lab

By: Robert Slonim and Carmen Wang
Volunteer supply is widespread. Yet without a price, inefficiencies occur due to suppliers’ inability to coordinate with each other and with demand. In these contexts, we propose a market clearinghouse mechanism that improves efficiency if supply is altruistically... View Details
Keywords: Laboratory Experiments; Volunteering; Public Goods Provision; Market Design; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Economics
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Slonim, Robert, and Carmen Wang. "Market Design for Altruistic Supply: Evidence from the Lab." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-112, March 2016.
  • April 2019
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Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence

By: Andrea Blasco, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael Menietti
Understanding why employees go the extra mile at work is a key problem for many organizations. We conduct a field experiment at a medical organization to study motivations for employees to submit project proposals for organizational improvement. In total, we analyze... View Details
Keywords: Field Experiment; Innovation; Contest; Incentives; Free-rider Problem; Healthcare Organizations; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Performance Improvement; Perspective
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Blasco, Andrea, Olivia S. Jung, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael Menietti. "Incentives for Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 160 (April 2019): 214–229.
  • 2017
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The Private Provision of Missing Public Goods: Evidence from Narayana Health in India

By: Tarun Khanna and Budhaditya Gupta
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Khanna, Tarun, and Budhaditya Gupta. "The Private Provision of Missing Public Goods: Evidence from Narayana Health in India." Chap. 3 in India as a Pioneer of Innovation, edited by Harbir Singh, Ananth Padmanabhan, and Ezekiel Emanuel. Oxford University Press, 2017.
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