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- June 2017
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MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid
By: Lynda M. Applegate, José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
In January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income... View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Wealth and Poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
Applegate, Lynda M., José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta, and Aldo Sesia. "MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid." Harvard Business School Case 817-073, June 2017.
- 10 Nov 2010
- News
Ask Not What Your Company Can Do for You...
- 13 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Ask A Coach: How Do I Find a Mentor?
Career & Professional Development breaks down answers to some of the most common questions we get from alumni at all stages of their career journey. Q: I’m feeling stuck in my career and hoping to find a mentor who can guide me in... View Details
- 26 Nov 2016
- News
Four Ways to Prepare to Ask for a Raise
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
company." The intangibles represent the "soft skills" that are familiar to business leaders – but with a twist. "As a CEO," Norris says, "you may not have had to reach agreement with others. But for board... View Details
- 16 May 2014
- News
Health cuts ‘wrong way’ to reform system, Harvard expert says
- 27 Oct 2014
- News
Here’s what one Harvard expert sees as Cincinnati's competitive edge
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
How to Start a New Job Remotely, According to Experts
- 10 Jun 2020
- News
Experts on How to Stay Emotionally Connected While Socially Distant
- September 2018
- Article
Do Experts or Crowd-Based Models Produce More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia
By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu
Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares the accuracy of crowd-produced and expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective,... View Details
Keywords: Online Community; Collective Intelligence; Wisdom Of Crowds; Bias; Wikipedia; Britannica; Knowledge Production; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Dissemination; Prejudice and Bias
Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu. "Do Experts or Crowd-Based Models Produce More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia." MIS Quarterly 42, no. 3 (September 2018): 945–959.