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  • February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Sarah Nam, Sisi Pan and Eric Werker
During the summer of 2014, Alan Knight, general manager of corporate responsibility at the integrated steel and mining company ArcelorMittal, observed the unfolding of an Ebola epidemic in Liberia and other countries in West Africa with great concern. On the one hand... View Details
Keywords: Ebola; Epidemics; Ebola Private Sector Mobalization Group; EPSMG; Civil War; Sovereignty; Change Management; Judgments; Development Economics; Geopolitical Units; Globalized Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Safety; War; Wealth and Poverty; Welfare; Crisis Management; Mining Industry; Liberia
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  • January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
  • Supplement

Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (B)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd
Keywords: Projects; Wealth and Poverty; Kenya
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  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Reunited and It Feels So Good

During several days of engaging academic programs and lively social events held in October both on and off campus, more than fifteen hundred alumni and guests from the MBA... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

skills, she notes, she is thankful for every day. As a senior executive, Marshall works to balance -- and satisfy -- the needs of her shareholders, customers, and employees. Her work with CARE often gives... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 28 Sep 2023
  • News

What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups

global business in the future. Writing for his Substack newsletter 99% Tech, Lazarow, a managing partner at Fluent Ventures and author of Out-Innovate, notes, “Dalio believes that existing reserve currencies, including the US dollar,... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

societies toward what political scientists and development economists call extraction since they tend to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few. In an extractive state a few people are in charge View Details
  • January 2007 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico

By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Farmacias Similares, serving Mexico's low-income sector, grew to $600 million sales and 3,400 drugstores while deep reforms to help the poor swept the public health system. Adjacent to each store, for $2 per visit, medical clinics provided access to doctors for 2.3... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Poverty; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry; Mexico
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  • Web

Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Course Overview Course Content The MOC course is concerned with the determinants of competitiveness and economic development viewed from a bottom up, microeconomic perspective. While sound macroeconomic factors affect the potential for... View Details
  • Comment

Comment to Martin Weitzman's 'Stochastic Income and Wealth'

By: Diego Comin
Keywords: Wealth; Compensation and Benefits
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  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

new era of wealth creation and a new episode of capitalism. People's desires, needs and wants have radically changed, but corporations have remained distant View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Leadership and Happiness - Course Catalog

and others’. Unfortunately, most leaders have to learn this fact by hard experience. Furthermore, they are never exposed to the expanding science of happiness, which contains a wealth of information on how... View Details
  • Web

Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

organization founded in 1994 by Professor Porter. The ICIC seeks to spark the revival of inner cities by bringing market-based approaches to economic development in these distressed areas. Its mission is to help inner cities create jobs, income View Details
  • April 2011 (Revised February 2016)
  • Case

Jamaica's Anemic Growth: The IMF, China and the Debt(th) Trap

By: Rafael Di Tella and Natalie Kindred
This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican economy showed relatively strong growth in the 1960s but stagnated in the 1970s. By the end of that decade,... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; International Finance; Crime and Corruption; Poverty; Private Sector; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Jamaica
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  • 13 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

Building sufficient cash reserves to launch a business and managing subsequent fundraising are challenges for every entrepreneur, but they are particularly daunting tasks for women. Women often come up short of cash at start-up and, when... View Details
Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart
  • October 2018
  • Article

Africa Rising? A Historical Perspective

By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent economic boom has raised hopes and expectations to lift the regions’ ‘bottom millions’ out of poverty by 2030. How realistic is that goal? We approach this question by comparing the experiences of three front-runners of region-specific... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Economy; Transformation; Poverty; History; Africa
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  • Web

Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1) - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
  • November 2018 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

The Rise of Populism and Italy's Electoral 'Tsunami'

By: Rawi Abdelal, Dante Roscini and Elena Corsi
Italy’s March 2018 elections led to a populist government that included the right-wing League and the anti-establishment 5 Star Movement. To respect their electoral promises, the two parties came up with a budget plan that provided for a public deficit at 2.4%, a... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Economies; Unemployment; Extremism; Political Elections; Immigration; Poverty; Social Issues; Government and Politics; Financial Condition; Financial Markets; Italy
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  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-048 Associação Saúde Criança: Trying to Break the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Love and Money - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics View Details
  • 22 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

Steven wrote over 1,000 pages of blogs to communicate with his team. This provided an incredible wealth of information from which to draw and synthesize what we now believe are some pretty interesting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services