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- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
women into a 18 month program. They give them intense therapy. And then they also go through training classes. So they learn basics like business skills, how to write a resumé. They get apprenticeships with local companies. WIR has...
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- 14 May 2020
- Blog Post
A PRIDE Farewell
and share joyful moments in their days; we join forces with student leaders across campus to financially support local relief efforts; and our community continues to find heroes in unexpected places—for example, Dr. Anthony Fauci, a...
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- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
was my work with a power plant, the UN Framework Convention for Climate Change, or local county governments, financial returns often superseded the "green value" of projects. I quickly learned that beyond health or environmental...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
is to improve quality,” he said, “because better health is cheaper than bad health.” This new model, he noted, takes into account obstacles to care that are present in developing countries, such as poor transportation, and also harnesses the role of the health-care...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
level," notes Ebrahim. "It doesn't disappear into other government agencies. The reasoning is that you can't achieve results without an accountable, locally embedded authority directly championed by the country's executive leadership. In...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
national leaders are largely paralyzed either by politics or by budgets. In practice, local leaders can often take more pragmatic action, faster. Mayors can influence municipal purchasing, building zoning for density and efficiency, taxi...
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- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
shareholder funds or as trying to subvert democratic institutions, she said. She suggested, however that there are three reasons to at least explore the topic including: Growing global corruption, particularly when business gets close to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
supplies, food, and other essential commodities. They’re doing everything from providing critical funding to donating space for medical services, as the ICCP Group did when it offered its property, the World Trade Center Manila, and...
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Margie Kelley
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
effects of their submissions on the other individuals in the workplace. We also find that offering employees project funding to implement their own proposals potentially backfires, undermining participation. And solicitations emphasizing...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
across the five boroughs through June, alleviating the burden of having to shop for themselves and their families. APRIL 9 Massachusetts COVID-19 Relief Fund was established with $13 million in donations from View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
technical, financial, and administrative resources to these innovative clinicians and facilitates the development of the ideas so they eventually become medical practice. While successful on many dimensions, Parrish is faced with the dilemma of stable, long-term View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
start-up that provides clean drinking water to more than 64,000 rural villagers in India. The company uses a franchise model in which local entrepreneurs filter and sell water to members of their community. "In India, 87 percent of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
Despite increased attention to public education in recent years, today’s schools are still not producing graduates equipped to meet the demands of the 21st-century economy, many business leaders contend. Most Americans seem to agree. Although they generally approve of...
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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Standards Board (GASB) required local governments to publicly report their OPEB liabilities. But GASB did not require cities to fund their OPEB shortfalls. As a result, even the worst View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
and towns not (yet) known for entrepreneurship. Throughout the summer of 2013, the MBAs Across America team will travel across country in an RV, making week-long stops to record and promote the stories of local entrepreneurs, to help with...
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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel Abstract Since the dawn of...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
crafting Senegal's post-pandemic economic recovery plan and an emergency youth-jobs plan; working with the country’s health ministry to set up a local vaccine manufacturing plant; securing vaccines for the country; helping to obtain...
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Maureen Harmon
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
particular, supportive incumbent industrial structures for input and output markets are strongly linked to higher establishment entry rates. We also find substantial evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
much of her first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to...
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Sean Silverthorne