Is the Key to Successful Prosocial Nudges Reputation?
If warm glow is built to promote our reputation, then it should be triggered when we give.
If warm glow is built to promote our reputation, then it should be triggered when we give.
How can we increase contributions to public goods—to get donors to give more to charity, citizens to vote, households to consume less energy, drivers to carpool, and patients to take all of their antibiotics? One of the best ways is to make contributions more observable.
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Perception of peer rank, or how we perform relative to our peers, can be a powerful motivator.
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Social norms messaging campaigns are increasingly used to influence human behavior, with social science research generally finding that they have modest but meaningful effects.
MassRobotics, a nonprofit founded by several MIT alumni, is advancing an industry that will play an increasingly important role in our lives.
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Natalia Levina, PhD ’01, and Rumman Chowdhury, SB ’03, spoke at the second annual Social Media Summit@MIT, a virtual gathering hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, in late March.
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How Far Could Pension Funds Drive Sustainable Investing?
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In a new book about the history of Kendall Square from the MIT Press, author Robert Buderi chronicles the area's biggest successes in innovation.
This report by Fei Qin, an Associate Professor in Management at the University of Bath, and Thomas A. Kochan, the George M. Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, describes what the authors believe to be a state‐of‐the‐art learning system at IBM Corporation and traces the effects of...