Business
Protests Matter to Companies
Women’s March protests convinced companies to select more female board members.
Chana R. Schoenberger
Health
The Divided Hospital
Incivility between doctors and nurses leads to higher rates of patient death and medical errors.
Technology
How to Fight Online Falsehoods
An international study suggests remedies for online disinformation like accuracy prompts and crowdsourcing are broadly effective across cultures and nations.
Organizational Development
Improving Health Care in the DRC
Performance-based incentives, auditing, and feedback boost performance at health centers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Education
How Schools Reproduce Social Station
Classrooms shape students’ ideas of merit differently, depending on their social class.
Human Rights
The Search for Human Rights
Google search trends worldwide suggest that human rights will continue to resonate with resistance movements in the Global South.
Philanthropy & Funding
India’s Corporate Philanthropy
Indian companies tend to spend required social outlays on important stakeholder groups.
Human Rights
The Invisible Woman
Women of color confront multiple forms of invisibility in the workplace.
Environment
Air-Pollution Knowledge Is Power
Tweets about local air quality from US embassies around the world reduced local pollution and improved health.
Social Services
Discipline, Punish, and Palliate
Palliative measures such as needle-exchange programs form a third model of neoliberal urban-poverty governance alongside policing and paternalism.
Philanthropy & Funding
The Displeasing Helpful Hand
People who receive help earlier in a task feel better about the aid than those who receive it toward the end.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Seal of Approval
Certification helps legitimize nonprofits and boosts their fundraising, even in authoritarian contexts.
Business
The Dance Between B Corps and Incumbents
Regular corporations and B Corps continue to fight for dominance over the corporate social responsibility label.
Philanthropy & Funding
Giving Time vs. Giving Money
Charitable donors prefer to give time instead of money because they feel they have more control over their donated time.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Elites, Citizens, and International Organizations
The public trusts major international organizations far less than the ruling class.
Human Rights
When Discrimination Meets Meritocracy
Hiring managers focus on qualities they deem relevant to the job, even if applying those qualities may be discriminatory.
Leadership
The Negative Influence of Dominant Leaders
Bossy managers can induce staffers to be less supportive of colleagues.
Advocacy
Nonprofit Capture
Corporate donations tend to generate supportive regulatory comments from their nonprofit recipients.
Business
Punished for Pro-Social Work
Employees who volunteer for social impact work may see careers harmed by sexist biases.
Education
The Unintended Impact of Diversity Awards
Targeted scholarships may draw underrepresented groups away from more lucrative funding.
Organizational Development
How Anonymous Self-Organized
The hacktivist collective built a framework to encourage and guide participation without direct oversight.
Collaboration
Collaborating to Solve Homelessness
Partnerships between nonprofit service providers and government agencies to address homelessness are more effective when the former play a leading role.
Technology
Chinese Food-Delivery Workers, Unite!
AI-driven food-delivery platforms create greater distrust and labor unrest among gig workers.
Cities
The Wages of Police Violence
Police violence leads to worse educational outcomes and youth mental health in the immediate vicinity of incidents.
Philanthropy & Funding
Citizen-Donors of the World
People who have moved tend to be more inclined to donate to non-local causes.
Business
Boycotts and Corporate Boards
Social movement boycotts increase board turnover, especially when board members are sympathetic to the cause at issue.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Alienation of Impact Reporting
Social-impact reports using language imported from business, finance, accounting, and corporate human resources cause nonprofit employees to feel estranged from their own values and the purported values of their organizations. A Research article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Human Rights
How Colombia Faces Its Past
States that undergo a process of transitional justice are selective about the international norms they adopt. A Research article from the Fall 2019 issue.
Health
Pay, Productivity, and Depression
Performance-based pay forces many employees to choose between leaving or suffering mental illness. A research report from the Summer 2019 issue.
Education
The Persistence of Black College Students
Black students attend college at greater rates than expected, given their socioeconomic disadvantages, and thereby attain more degrees than expected.
Impact Investing
The Paradox of Socially Responsible Investing
Funds that invest in social goals inevitably confront tensions with the goal of making money.
Social Services
Incarceration and Unemployment
Being imprisoned hurts people’s prospects for employment by taking them out of the job market.
Leadership
How a Janitor Put a Man on the Moon
NASA motivated employees by making a connection between their everyday work and the agency’s loftiest goal.
Philanthropy & Funding
Choosing the Best Charity
Charitable givers see their decisions as subjective and view “effectiveness” as one among many criteria that should guide their donations.
Philanthropy & Funding
How Foundations Make an Impact
Research shows that foundations are motivated by impact in their grantmaking.
Education
When Funding Moves Away From Universities
Foundations are shifting their higher-education funding to outside organizations that promote initiatives they favor.
Social Enterprise
Harmonizing Tension of Hybrid Organizations
Social enterprises must navigate the contradictory pulls of social and for-profit goals without tipping too far to one side.
Economic Development
Bidding for Development Aid
For-profits and nonprofits play different roles in bidding for international development contracts.
Cities
Nonprofit Crime Reduction
Community organizations devoted to reducing crime have shown results.
Education
Teaching to the Life Test
The ability of teachers to improve students’ non-cognitive abilities may have greater importance than test scores.
Cities
The Right Soil for Innovation
The idea for a New York City botanical garden needed a suitable milieu to flourish.
Nonprofits & NGOs
A Limited Right of Association
Not every group could gain corporate rights in de Tocqueville’s America.
Arts & Culture
The Mortality of Arts Nonprofits
The funding ecosystem has a greater role to play in the survival of nonprofits than their internal structure.
Advocacy
How Political Donors Band Together
The ultrarich are teaming up to make politics more partisan.
Cities
Nonelected Community Representatives
Community-based organizations play a larger role in deciding development projects than local politicians.
