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- 30 Aug 2012
- News
Fundraiser makes the most of time at convention
- January 2019
- Article
Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study
By: Christine L. Exley and Stephen J. Terry
We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for themselves, higher wages lead to higher effort with...
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Reference Points;
Wage Elasticities;
Labor Supply;
Effor;
Volunteering;
Prosocial Behavior;
Wages;
Motivation and Incentives;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Behavior
Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry. "Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study." Management Science 65, no. 1 (January 2019): 413–425.
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
presentation that outlines the major initiatives currently under way at HBS. The presentation is being designed so that a club officer or a member of the board can deliver it with ease at club sessions and other meetings. In addition, the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
chronologically, how your offer has changed, and how that reflected what you picked up over the course of time as you grew the company and had more experience supporting companies, hiring interns, and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
access even further by offering crucial support services to those close to the college-readiness gap. Welcome, Scott!Scott Pulsipher: Thank you so much for having me, Bill.Kerr: Scott, give us a few of the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
leadership down, you're highlighting important visibility from the employees upwards into how they're contributing to how this company's performing overall.Petitti: Yeah. Another stat for you. Seven percent of people who work at large...
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- 09 May 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
‘My Bad!’ How Internal Attribution and Ambiguity of Responsibility Affect Learning from Failure
- 29 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)
The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are connecting with some View Details
- 30 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Return on Political Investment in the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
render the most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. "The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented," Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a...
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- 08 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Truth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor
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by Christina Fong & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
- 23 Feb 2021
- News
Dan Koh Named Labor Department’s Chief of Staff
Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, who has been nominated by President Biden to serve as secretary of labor, has tapped Dan Koh (MBA 2011) to serve as his chief of staff,...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
Having grown up in Pakistan, Tarim Wasim (MBA 2005) and other Boston-based students and professionals started the Association for the Development of Pakistan (ADP) in 2003 to support the best local...
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- 2007
- Chapter
Legal Origin vs. the Politics of Creditor Rights: Bond Markets in Brazil, 1850-2002
By: Aldo Musacchio
This paper explores the question: Do institutions persist over time and determine current economic outcomes? Specifically, does the adoption or inheritance of a legal tradition in the past determine the subsequent course of institutional and financial development? This...
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- 2014
- Working Paper
Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
Since the 1990s, several Western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against 'bio-piracy'. We explore conditions under which firms and local stakeholders share rents from such patents. Our...
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Keywords:
Rents From New Technology;
Local Stakeholders;
Herbal Patents;
QCA;
Fuzzy Set Analysis;
Qualitative Case Studies;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Patents;
Emerging Markets;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna. "Bio-Piracy or Prospering Together? Fuzzy Set and Qualitative Analysis of Herbal Patenting by Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-081, February 2014.
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
the downsides of the cluster phenomenon. After the French tire maker Michelin introduced radial tire technology—which in effect doubled a tire's useful life—Akron tire companies quickly began to lose their edge. The Akron firms faltered...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
part of these events, identifying sponsors who could provide consistent support year after year, fine-tuning the conference surveys, and examining the viability of developing...
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- 06 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
This husband, father and former pilot in the Marine Corps takes on HBS and his vision of changing communities for the better.
support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. My wife, five month old son, and I are very excited for this chapter of our lives. I’m looking forward to developing a foundational...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
economies, and accounting/control. Thanks to the support of our colleagues in Executive Education, this five-module program will be rolled out in New York City starting in January. The reunions subcommittee...
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