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10 Jul 2024
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visible in college and at the workplace. Her father was a university professor and her mother worked for a media company. “I’m in media now, too, so that is really special to me,” Joseph says. Her father recently retired as senior vice... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

2013
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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

By: Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Justine Burns, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James and Michael I. Norton

This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey data from 136 countries were examined... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Psychological Universal; Prosocial Behavior; Well-being; Happiness; Spending; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Canada; Uganda; South Africa; India

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15 Oct 2019
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Level of campus sexual violence largely unchanged, survey says

18 Nov 2009
Working Paper Summaries

India Transformed? Insights from the Firm Level 1988-2005

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Anusha Chari

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

true economic performance is. The evolution of the 2 parallel universes of financial and accounting reporting systems appears to be a historical accident rather than a manifestation of 2 competing views of what profits should be. Aligning... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

2021
Chapter

Generating Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge: International Research Collaboration on a Hemispheric Level

By: James E. Austin, Gabriel Berger, Rosa Amelia González, Roberto Gutiérrez, Iván D. Lobo and Alfred Vernis

Provide insights on how social entrepreneurship (SE) knowledge can be more effectively generated by universities through the entrepreneurial creation and effective management of a knowledge network centered on international collaborative research; illuminate how one... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Knowledge; Networks; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Global Range

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03 Nov 2016
HBS Seminar

Olav Sorenson, Yale University

11 Sep 2014
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Petra Moser, Stanford University

12 Mar 2019
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Giorgos Zervas, Boston University

14 Feb 2018
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Ruomeng Cui, Emory University

04 Feb 2025
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Anocha Aribarg, University of Michigan

28 Nov 2018
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Jon Jachimowicz, Columbia University

05 Feb 2012
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Harvard Conference Seeks to Jolt University Teaching

01 Dec 2015
HBS Seminar

Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

07 Nov 2016
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Vishal Gaur, Johnson, Cornell University

23 Oct 2024
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Rosa Ferrer, University of Pompeu Fabra and BSE

15 Apr 2025
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Hal Hershfield, University of California, Los Angeles

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New Levels of Capitalism: Finance - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links New Levels of Capitalism: Finance The rapidly growing industry required an extraordinary amount of capital for construction and... View Details

02 Mar 2012
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Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University

27 Sep 2016
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