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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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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Public Action for Public Goods

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Public Action for Public Goods

By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

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
  • 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
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • News

Private Sector, Public Good

Keywords: Management
  • 4 May 2012 - 2012
  • Conference Presentation

Corporate Power & Public Good

By: Lynn S. Paine
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  • 04 Apr 2016
  • News

Data Collection is the Ultimate Public Good

  • December 2013 (Revised December 2014)
  • Case

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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  • 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
  • Awards

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
  • 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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  • 28 Feb 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India

Keywords: by Abhijit Banerjee & Lakshmi Iyer
  • October 2021
  • Case

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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  • 2014
  • Chapter

Corporate Power and the Public Good

By: Lynn S. Paine
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

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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  • April 2019
  • Article

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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  • 05 Aug 2015
  • News

Leveraging MBA Skills for the Public Good

Caryl Brackenridge (MBA 1965) didn’t think too much about being one of eight women to pioneer enrollment in the full-time MBA program at HBS. With two years of post-college teaching experience and two brothers, Brackenridge was used to holding her own in a discussion... View Details