Videos
Altruistic Capital
Altruistic Capital: How We Can Make Work More Fulfilling
A short introduction video to the concept of Altruistic Capital
How to Build Altruistic Capital
An interview with Wise Society at the 2023 World Business Forum with Nava Ashraf on the Lab’s research on leadership, inclusion, and how to build (and deplete!) altruistic capital.
Other Interviews and Documentaries
Flipping The Ladder – A Documentary Film by GANT
This documentary follows three potential career switchers on their journey toward a new direction in life. Professor Nava Ashraf brings her expertise on Altruistic Capital to explain how serving others can create personal fulfilment and meaning in work and career.
Human Nature and Human Development
Keynote lecture at the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE 2018)
Altruistic Capital
Part of the Marshall Institute Lecture Series on Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship 2017/18
Self-Interest of Economics and the Need to Create Happiness
Keynote lecture at the ebbf UK conference 2019: Collaborative Business: How organisations & people can transform each other?
In Conversation with…
Luigi Zingales
Professor Zingales discusses how to create efficient ways to allocate buying power to the final user or beneficiary to bring in the element of competition in the third sector.
Alvin Roth
Using the example of kidney exchange, Professor Roth explains how he and his colleagues redesigned the market for kidney transplants to ensure that more people would benefit from a transplant.
Sir Ronald Cohen
Sir Ronald Cohen talks about his new book, On Impact: A Guide to the Impact Revolution.
Rebecca Henderson
Professor Rebecca Henderson talks about her new book, Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World.
Articles
Tips Rise as Locked-In Customers Show Their Appreciation (18 Apr 2020, The Wall Street Journal)
How to get people to behave better? Use carrots, not sticks (21 Sep 2018, The Guardian)
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity (29 Jun 2016, Forbes)
Cynicism about purpose is a disease that needs fighting (4 Apr 2016, Financial Times)
How to Increase Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill (22 Jan 2013, Forbes)
Volunteers on the frontline of services delivery (11 Dec 2012, The Guardian)
No margin, no mission? Motivating agents in the social sector (13 Mar 2012, CEPRs Policy Portal)