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- 19 Dec 2012
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Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
exploiting a Nester report’s connection to a mortgage’s residual income analysis? Residual income is the amount of disposable household income left over after paying for all costs of living. That analysis doesn’t include car-repair...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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Emerging Information
free delivery service and as ubiquitous as the telephone." But in 1994, "Internet" was hardly a household word in Eastern Europe, where Mueller first sought out prospective information providers - he was often greeted with the response...
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Paul Michelman
- 01 Feb 2001
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Classic Lines
Contemplating old furniture and oddities from the attic sounds about as exciting as watching paint dry — hardly the stuff of prime-time entertainment. Yet Antiques Roadshow, in which people present their household treasures for inspection...
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- 11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash
Nepal, households headed by women with digital savings accounts increased their education spending by 20 percent. On the other side of the equation, digitizing teacher salary payments in Liberia reduced the time and cost of collecting a...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
investment strategies. He also has applied this technology toward understanding broad aspects of the financial system, such as household consumption, the creation of financial products intermediaries, and the management and regulation of...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Plan B: The Brick Bank
Habitat for Humanity International to evaluate the viability of a new partnership with a microsavings institution in the Mekong Delta. “The intent of the program was to encourage poor and near-poor households to save for future...
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Julia Hanna
- 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate
the full size and development that they need. Dan Morrell: Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Naina Lal Kidwai and her sister lived in a household where business and social issues were important family concerns. When she visited her...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
A Look at Olook
2013—even as the national economy stalled. And fashion is one of its hottest sectors, according to e-bit, responsible for almost 14 percent of e-commerce sales, ahead of household appliances and cosmetics. Beisert says olook is poised for...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
household ledgers that detail the hearthside work of women in the agrarian age to photographs of the legions of women who ran the looms in New England mill towns after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Although she anticipated...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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The Exchange: Micro Management
randomized control studies started to emerge that all showed the same surprisingly lukewarm message about the impact of microfinance on livelihoods. Natalia Rigol: People expected to see shifts in household income, business growth, and...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
resurgence of interest in promoting value-chain development as a way to add value, lower transaction costs, diversify rural economies, and help increase rural household incomes. Using real examples, mostly from African countries, this...
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- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Launches DKMS, the cure blood cancer bank 1993 Becomes CEO, Coty Inc. 2001 Appointed Chairman, Coty Inc. 2006 Appointed Chairman, Anheuser-Busch InBev With entrepreneurial energy, Peter Harf has left a mark on consumer goods industries such as View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
technocrats than the country had ever seen and handed them their goals and benchmarks. When property-tax bills landed in mailboxes several weeks later, they reflected across-the-board cuts. The deepest, 30 percent, went to households with...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
startup formation has been on the decline since the early 1980s; and real median household income is well below its peak in 1999. Most economic gains have gone instead to the wealthy and big businesses. Today’s 5.1 percent unemployment...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time
40,000 US households in 2008 and over 30,000 in 2013. The first surprise? Despite the expansion of online content between 2008 and 2013 (think Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube), the number of sites and amount of time spent on them remained...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of U.S. View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
consumer finance? The household sector in America is huge, representing approximately $61 trillion of assets. And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size...
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