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Publications from the Applied Cooperation Initiative
Publications from the Applied Cooperation Initiative
About the MIT Applied Cooperation Initiative
We are a team of researchers who apply lessons from the social sciences to increase contributions to real-world public goods.
Here, leadership is not a title or a person. It’s a process. We begin with self-awareness, then combine science-based frameworks, personalized coaching, and practical applications to develop leaders.
Leadership at MIT is not a title or a person. It’s a process. We begin with self-awareness and combine science-based frameworks, personalized coaching, and practical applications to develop leaders.
We are a small but mighty team dedicated to helping MIT students develop as dynamic leaders equipped to collaborate with others to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Leadership combines the confidence to confront big challenges with the humility to know you can’t solve them alone. This is the driving concept behind the MIT Leadership Center—because the future demands it.
Getting people to adopt behaviors that increase energy conservation and reduce costs for the environment requires a multipronged approach.
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.