Youth Unemployment - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2020
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Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda

By: Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali

We design a labor market experiment to compare demand- and supply-side policies to tackle youth unemployment, a key issue in low-income countries. The experiment tracks 1700 workers and 1500 firms over four years to compare the effect of offering workers either... View Details

Keywords: Employment; Training; Competency and Skills; Developing Countries and Economies

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December 2017
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International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta

It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact... View Details

Keywords: Scaling Technologies; Youth Unemployment; Innovation In Nonprofits; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Cash Flow; Labor; Employment; Commercialization; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Nigeria

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Jobs and Social Innovation

26 Mar 2019
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SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE

a social enterprise. Misan is the cofounder and CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), an organization dedicated to tackling youth unemployment in West Africa. What motivated you to pursue a career... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Entrepreneurship

29 Mar 2019
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SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO WAVE

2013, NVC 2013 Winner) shares her insights on founding and leading a social enterprise. Misan is the cofounder and CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), an organization dedicated to tackling youth View Details

Gerald C. Chertavian

Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

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Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA

years. In this post, Misan Rewane (MBA 2013, NVC 2013 Winner) shares her insights on founding and leading a social enterprise. Misan is the cofounder and CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), an organization dedicated to tackling View Details

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Alex Angelopoulos

I still remember the feeling of emptiness while evaluating my career prospects when I graduated college in 2015. With youth unemployment at 50%, I was entering the workforce in one of the worst job markets... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Reducing unemployment among Palestinian youth and helping small businesses in the West Bank by establishing a cell-phone based job matching service. Business Track, 2005 Uplift Karen Grajwer Business Track... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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The Power of Cultural Understanding

people together to solve problems such as youth unemployment and climate change. HBS cases transmit cultural understanding throughout the world. The result is a very positive multiplier effect.” In the MENA... View Details

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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

graduation, returning to her hometown of Lagos, Nigeria, to make good on the organization’s mission to combat youth unemployment by identifying, training, and placing graduates of the program’s 3-week... View Details

28 May 2017
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HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire

company and social entrepreneurship focused on youth unemployment to name just two), investors, government ministers, and executives of pan-African companies. And, they were so close knit, and welcomed me... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene

population is under 25, and youth unemployment stands at 28 percent. “The human capital is there,” she says. “And they are thinking outside of the box.” In many ways, BulkWhiz, which has now grown to more... View Details

17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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Whither the Information Economy?

'75)Mercer Management Consulting As if that wasn't enough, he asserted that information, in part because of these characteristics, is diffusive and hard to contain, especially that containing high proprietary value. Any number of people from President Clinton to Bill... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Apr 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

the experience of having grown up in Africa and a desire to help solve the problem of unemployment among youth. Navid Rahimi, another classmate, joined the team along with two classmates from an HGSE course on entrepreneurship in... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

21 May 2018
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Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

so entrepreneurs can easily access working capital as they grow. The Hatchery will also house a culinary institute led by celebrity chef Rick Bayless and other high profile local chefs. This program will focus primarily on neighborhood View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?

search engine Baidu. Instead of striving and sweating for a good job, a home, and a family, it suggested a minimalist lifestyle of tang ping (“lying flat”). Although the post was later deleted by Communist Party officials, lying flat has nevertheless become a rallying... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

community transformation, currently works in six African countries. We challenge our youth to channel their rage into starting positive change projects. One participant in our Youth Leadership Program... View Details

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Growth within the EU has been sluggish, with high unemployment and low investment in R&D. The EU has launched a set of reforms to create a "single passport" system of mutual recognition within the EU for capital, services,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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