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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
knowledge management into the future of Danone. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608067 Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Harvard Business School Case 208-019 In an activist role, the hedge View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups
Ray Dalio (photo via Bridgewater Associates) and Alex Lazarow (photo by Lindsay Upson) In a recent conversation with Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010) gleaned three insights (and one bonus) from the global hedge fund leader on...
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HBS - The year in Review
family’s income and assets—will also be considered in determining aid. This change will help better account for intergenerational wealth differences and help remove a barrier for outstanding candidates from lower socioeconomic...
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- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
with unequal endowments, trust is initially lower yet remains relatively stable. The difference seems partly due to the fact that equal start positions increase subjects' inclination to condition their trust decisions on wealth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
minorities to majority populations, particularly historically disadvantaged minorities, there's also income gaps, but the wealth gap is just really huge.” What’s more, minority-owned private equity funds...
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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
at affordable rates the HBS Impact Investment Fund is part of an important local ecosystem working to build greater equity and diversity in business ownership, and ultimately in wealth creation . The View Details
- 06 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Leaders Lose Their Way
In recent months several high-level leaders have mysteriously lost their way. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former head of the International Monetary Fund and a leading French politician, was arraigned on charges of sexual assault. Before that...
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by Bill George
- 2019
- Working Paper
Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households
By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
The federal government currently spends over $100 billion per year on policies aimed to increase fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption among low income households. These include price-, nutrition education-, and access-related interventions. Currently, the government...
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Bi-level Optimization;
Optimal Subsidies;
Public Policy;
Food Policy;
Central Planner;
Government Administration;
Poverty;
Food;
Nutrition
Levi, Retsef, Elisabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis. "Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households." MIT Sloan Research Paper, No. 6053-19, November 2019.
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Research - Global
2024 Case Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners: Leading the Energy Transition By: John Macomber and Maxwell Nii Laryea A leading global infrastructure fund debates whether and when to become engaged in the electrolysis and distribution of...
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
seven large institutions. These direct investments perform better than public market indices, especially buyout investments and those made in the 1990s. Outperformance by the direct investments, however, relative to the corresponding private equity View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2022
- Case
VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey and Anjali Raina
Set up in 2008, VidyaGyan was a residential school for children in grades 6-12 from low-income rural families in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It was the brainchild of Shiv Nadar and Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian, who recognized the enormous potential hidden...
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Non-profit;
Education;
Social Enterprise;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Wealth and Poverty;
Demographics;
Equality and Inequality;
Performance Evaluation;
Opportunities;
Education Industry;
South Asia;
India
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey, and Anjali Raina. "VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide." Harvard Business School Case 622-077, January 2022.
- July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
Propel
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the...
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Public Entrepreneurship;
Govtech;
Food Stamps;
EBT;
Mobile App;
User Research;
Financial Services Referrals;
Grocery Marketing;
Customer Discovery;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Business Model;
Research;
Social Enterprise;
Poverty;
Welfare;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Applications and Software;
Technology Industry;
United States
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - 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...
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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
payments to its pension fund and drawn down all the fund’s cash until there was nothing left but a $50 billion unfunded liability. Capital markets had deemed the island an unacceptable risk. “They had lost access to traditional capital,...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409033 PublicationsTaxing the Bandit Kings Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:Yale Law Journal Pocket Part (forthcoming) Abstract The rise of significant inbound...
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- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of...
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What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?
By: Eric D. Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmand
Nongovernmental organizations are one group of players who are active in the efforts of international development and increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers...
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Non-Governmental Organizations;
Growth and Development;
Welfare or Wellbeing;
Poverty;
Service Delivery;
Crime and Corruption;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Decision Making;
Resource Allocation;
Product Development;
Framework
Werker, Eric D., and Faisal Z. Ahmand. "What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 2 (Spring 2008).
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HBS - The year in Review
The installation celebrates the generosity of the newly established Bridgitt and Bruce Evans Contemporary Art Fund at the School. 26th New Venture Competition Launched The 26th annual HBS New Venture Competition, held in Klarman Hall in...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
both partners. For the bank, the partnership with a major art institution gives access to cultural, symbolic, and social resources, which can add value to and differentiate wealth management services. From the perspective of the bank, the...
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Sean Silverthorne