Wealth And Poverty - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Sep 2024
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Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

needed. For example, a 2023 report from the Global Center for Adaptation suggests that over $100 billion per year is needed to invest in infrastructure, weather forecasting, and protecting agriculture in Africa to address both View Details

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

Environmental pressures, including the risk that we could destabilize the climate through the emission of green-house gases. Poverty and inequality, with fewer people taking greater pieces of the earnings... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2007
News

Letters to the Editor

Smart Choices Regarding your December cover story on Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97), CEO of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, I find it interesting that in the many articles written about the firm, the principals never seem to acknowledge the fact that their early View Details

Profile

Luis Cervantes

internship and employment at UBS, Luis gained exposure first to wealth management then investment banking. “It was military-type training within the financial sector,” Luis says. “I worked with the most... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

School Publishing) Public and philanthropic dollars are not enough to address global issues of poverty and disease, but innovative finance can bring governmental, commercial,... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

We Rise

made to limited partners when they formed True Wealth Ventures in 2015, and it is the philosophy that drives the firm today. Its requirement that there be at least one woman in a decision-making role on the... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

01 Dec 2000
News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

nation's cultural, intellectual, educational, and spiritual wealth is a very different thing from simply contributing to the gross national product," observes Brown. "You need to have a long-term vision that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Becoming a Consulting Expert

project is given to you, you’re the expert on that piece. Never mind if you’ve never studied that industry or heard of the company or thought about the products at all - someone’s gotta be the go-to person, and that someone is you. In a... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

problem, whereas a lot of companies were always looking at their customers were aging and aging out. They saw that as an opportunity to rethink how are they going to develop their wealth management products.... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

Ward - once synonymous with out-of-control crime rates, gang warfare, antiquated public housing, crumbling schools, and degrading poverty - have begun to show indications that there may be a way out of the... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

15 Oct 2019
News

Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, to organize an impact investing conference in Shanghai. (photo courtesy Harvard Center Shanghai) It takes drive and conviction for an MBA student to organize a... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Giving Advice

innovative approach to giving than writing checks to 501(c)(3) charities. It’s not an either-or; in fact, at high wealth levels, many individuals and families use both DAFs and... View Details

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Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society

to encourage more inclusive organizations and communities. Doing business in a divided world This report provides an overview of various dimensions of inequality in the United States, drawing from a wealth... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

knows quite a bit about the topic. "Capitalism has traditionally been about driving wealth and productivity through efficiencies in capital and labor," says Henderson, who... View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

01 Dec 2020
News

Up Your Time Affluence

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans’ research is driven by a fundamental question: What makes us happy? Is it having plenty of money? Or time? Research by Whillans... View Details

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

the political realm in 2017 and by comparison about $400 billion spent on philanthropy. If you look at the resources being spent in philanthropy—whether it’s related to climate change or poverty or... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC, who has pledged $1 billion of his own wealth to fighting climate change through the Grantham Foundation. “Time is not on our side. We should act as if we are... View Details

16 Dec 2020
News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

building a network of community leaders to establish and maintain these arisans, and share in the profit of any sales. It was another way for entrepreneurs in Indonesia’s villages to build View Details

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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