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Video Clips - Creating Emerging Markets

Suresh Krishna Suresh Krishna Base Of The Pyramid Suresh Krishna, founder of the largest manufacturer of industrial fasteners for the auto industry in India, explains his “dharma of business”: to lift as many people out of poverty as he... View Details
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Latin America - Global

expanding equity ownership, poverty alleviation, and fostering deeper community collaborations. October 2024 EVENT Entrepreneurship Event in Mexico City LARC hosted a breakfast in Mexico City, bringing together a diverse group of social... View Details
  • 04 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid

  • October 2020
  • Case

HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks

By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks
Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Rural Entrepreneurship; Economic Development; Black Entrepreneurs; Economic Growth; Credit; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Rural Scope; Development Economics; Race; Investment; Decision Making; Banking Industry
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    Brian L. Trelstad

     

    Brian Trelstad is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the General Management Unit and the Faculty Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He teaches elective courses on Social Entrepreneurship and Systems... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; health care; service industry; emerging market private equity; private equity (other); venture capital industry
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    U.S. Competitiveness

    2016 YAHOO! FINANCE External How improved infrastructure could end America’s vicious cycle of poverty Re: Rosabeth Moss Kanter 15 Sep 2016 CNBC: SQUAWK BOX External Harvard study shows U.S. losing competitive edge Re: Michael Porter 17... View Details
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    Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship

    David Baker Co-Founder & COO, MBAs Across America MBA 2014 Joseph Baron Co-Founder & CEO, Janus Biotherapeutics MBA 1999 Nancy M. Barry President, NBA Enterprise Solutions to Poverty MBA 1975 Ruzwana Bashir CEO, Peek.com MBA 2011 Marla... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Game On

    Plus in Sarasota, where more than half the students live below the poverty line. A pickleball player herself, Kahler was granted three sets by the foundation and launched a before-school club for her fifth graders. “Students cannot thrive... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
    • 21 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

    As more than 50 countries hold elections in 2024, far-right politicians and policies look poised to gain ground, continuing a years-long trend evident in Europe, the United States, and South America. These movements often stoke grievances about international trade,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne

      Sandra J. Sucher

      Sandra Sucher, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, is an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust, her third book, is based on two decades of global research on how companies build stakeholder trust and how,... View Details

      Keywords: apparel; banking; brokerage; clothing; fashion; financial services; furniture; hotels ＆ motels; retail financial services; retailing; service industry
      • 29 Mar 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850

      Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
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      Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

      Plant-Based Agribusiness (1) Policy (44) Political Elections (33) Pollution and Pollutants (4) Poverty (3) Power and Influence (72) Practice (1) Prejudice and Bias (60) Price Bubble (6) Price (36) Private Equity (17) Private Ownership (1)... View Details
      • January 2007 (Revised April 2011)
      • Case

      Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico

      By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
      Farmacias Similares, serving Mexico's low-income sector, grew to $600 million sales and 3,400 drugstores while deep reforms to help the poor swept the public health system. Adjacent to each store, for $2 per visit, medical clinics provided access to doctors for 2.3... View Details
      Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Poverty; Pharmaceutical Industry; Retail Industry; Mexico
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      Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

      Confronting Climate Change Food & Agriculture Innovation will reduce agriculture impacts and help farmers adapt The Green Revolution in the 20 th century dramatically increased crop yields and reduced global poverty by half. [25] These... View Details
      • May 2018
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      The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness

      By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley and Michael I. Norton
      Two samples of more than 4,000 millionaires reveal two primary findings. First, only at high levels of wealth—in excess of $8 million (Study 1) and $10 million (Study 2)—are wealthier millionaires happier than millionaires with lower levels of wealth, though these... View Details
      Keywords: Income; Well-being; Happiness; Wealth; Money; Attitudes; Situation or Environment
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      • April 2009
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      Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi

      By: Rawi Abdelal
      By the turn of the century, oil had already made the tiny emirate of Abu Dhabi rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams. A sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), has invested extra oil revenues abroad for more than thirty years and amassed a... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Sovereign Finance; Wealth; Diversification; Abu Dhabi
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      Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

      access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without controversy. While many hailed it as a way to end... View Details
      • 01 Jan 2007
      • News

      Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

      success alone. In a country where one-third of the population lives beneath the poverty line, he is an advocate of political and economic reform and a champion of investing in the bottom of the business pyramid. "I believe business should... View Details
      • 25 Jul 2023
      • Blog Post

      Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

      utilizes their MBA skills to bring significant value and capacity to both the business and its community. Leading into his first year at HBS, McClain was a Summer Fellow with the Harlem Children’s Zone, an education non-profit that aims to end intergenerational View Details
      • 06 Jul 2023
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      Home Economics

      donors—“you don’t naturally have a feedback loop”—and you have to build strategic alliances. “No nonprofit is going to achieve big objectives alone,” Laidler-Kylander explains. Trickle Up invested in 41,000 women living in extreme poverty... View Details
      Keywords: April White