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- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
organizations: Businesses focus on commerce, while charities engage in activities that support social welfare. Increasingly, however, founders of social ventures interested in improving society are pursuing hybrid business models, which...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
“and then I’d explain the real science behind them all.” The experience stayed with Kundu, and just prior to enrolling at HBS, he created the Kundu Foundation, a charity devoted to helping people in need, both in the US and in India....
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Margie Kelley
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
accruing earnings for a charity instead of themselves, more targeting behavior and a more sluggish response to incentives should result. Results from an additional experiment add support to this explanation. When individuals select into...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
sustainable—engines of change were in fact corporations. In the province next to Veraguas, for example, the Nestlé company's dairy operation had a very similar effect to that of the bishop's movement. The big difference was that it made a profit. There isn't enough...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
intelligence firm for nearly $2 billion, he remained active in venture capital, start-ups and charity work. In 2009 he founded the risk management consulting firm K2 Global Consulting with his eldest son. That was also the year he asked...
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- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
other than Kremer’s adopted Prize4Life for their charity auctions and students across Harvard University took up the cause. A game-changer Since then, Prize4Life has accomplished many of its goals. In 2011, it awarded its first $1M ALS...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
higher charity care and medical education. After observing regulator leniency, beneficent hospitals demonstrate higher upcoding. Our results suggest that lenient enforcement assists beneficent nonprofits to obtain higher revenues in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
a popular ride, they had the option of purchasing a photo of themselves enjoying the ride. For the experiment, some visitors were told upon purchase that half of the photo proceeds would go to a charity. The results showed that visitors who thought the proceeds went to...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
consideration to your product." Estée set out to prove him wrong, telling Fiske that she would demonstrate Saks customers' interest in her products at a charity luncheon at which she was speaking. The event was held at the Starlight...
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- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
problem is that companies do CSR in fits and starts," Rangan says. "Programs are fragmented, and so they're not that effective in helping the community or the company." And then the CEO wakes up one day and realizes that "we're doing $50 million worth of View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
decision was very important for me and for all the firm’s partners. Also, given the extremely difficult financial environment we are in, I expect charities will be greatly affected. That’s why it’s incumbent on those who can to step up...
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- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
to fill out a brief questionnaire, choosing to answer a personal question about either a desirable behavior (such as charity work) or an undesirable behavior (such as cheating). The students could respond to only one of the questions,...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
effective in publicly soliciting donations to a range of charities than confederates seated in a regular chair. In Experiment 2, whites changed their private attitudes more following face-to-face appeals from black than white...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
charity that will sap the strengths of the profit-maximizing corporation, while journalist Martin Wolf maintains that the maximization of profit is far from universally accepted, and rightly so. Chicago Nobel laureate Gary Becker wonders...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing checks to View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, now 15 years old. Back in 1993, most people took a "spray and pray" approach to philanthropy—writing checks to charities and...
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by Roger Thompson
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
of what charity can look like the summer after college. With her Harvard degree in government in hand, she signed up for a service trip and was shipped to a remote area of South Africa to help with a construction project. As she unpacked...
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- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
data from hospitals, we examine mispricing via "upcoding," which involves misclassifying ailment severity. Archival analysis indicates less stringent regulatory enforcement of upcoding for beneficent nonprofit hospitals, defined as hospitals that provide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
out.” Gertsacov has clearly taken full advantage of his time here. A star HBS rugby and ice hockey player, he’s a gourmet chef whose Thai cooking lessons earned his section $1,600 in its charity auction. He also launched a monthly...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
Chicago, the British Library, Catholic Charities USA, Fundación Paraguaya, Goodwill Industries International, the Humane Society of the United States, and Musica Viva Australia. In any given year, about half of SPNM participants represent...
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