Population - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Nov 2019
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Lifting Fallen Families

percent of the population serves.” So the Children of Fallen Patriots began to show the public how to support military families and the children who are left behind when parents are killed in combat, in training, or by suicide after war... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

13 Nov 2018
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Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

renting than any time in the last five decades, and Davis knew there was a market opportunity here. Yet Davis moved in the opposite direction of many real estate investors. He didn’t target big states with large suburban populations and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

unemployment that peaked at 28 percent, while more than 44 percent of the population slipped below the poverty line. And violent protests.So many years of protest, much of it fueled by anti-austerity anger and the inherent tensions from... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2020
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Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change

direction. MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Making Democracy Work Navigating the Populism Phenomenon Building a Strong and Prosperous Society Maintaining a Resilient Democracy View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

Bank estimated that 40 percent of the country’s population lacked access to electricity in 2016—“but we hope it encourages and inspires other leaders,” he adds. Entrepreneurs are key to Africapitalism, says Elumelu. That’s why the Tony... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Jan 2017
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HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa

Senior Lecturer John Macomber, far left, and students in the Africa: Building Cities course toured the Rappie Waste-to-Energy Power Project in Addis Ababa with developer Samuel Alemayehu of Cambridge Group Companies. With a growing View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business

gathered in Cumnock Hall. The world population is exploding, and resource use is skyrocketing, particularly in rapidly developing nations like China and India, said Nordan, president of the analyst group Lux Research. “If you do that math... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Utilities

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

relatively pro-business government and an energetic young population and growing middle class that make no secret of aspiring to a better quality of life, complete with all the consumer goods such an existence entails. The downside,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2002
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Books

bankruptcy laws) to creditors, and by spreading risk throughout the population (via deposit insurance and even the use of government-issued money). He discusses how the rise of big business provoked reforms that, by the early 20th... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2004
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Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)

two-year-old Hereford heifers to populate the farm my father had purchased just after World War II. We drove; the “girls” took the train. Dad had built a western-style, open-front pole barn in anticipation, and our somewhat skeptical... View Details

Keywords: Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

15 Oct 2019
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Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

the seminar also confront pressing global problems, including poor nutrition and obesity, food waste, population growth, and feeding the world’s hungry. “Tackling these challenges centers on leadership,” observes Alvarez. “The... View Details

17 Apr 2015
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A Driving Force for a Sustainable World

that having this distinction, people look at me differently, especially as a woman. It forces me to be a role model. It gives me a status I have to respect.” Being a woman in a male-dominated industry has provided Herlaut a unique perspective. At HBS, she was part of a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart

States, because we’ve brought all of the tools we’ve built to connect with underserved communities around the globe to populations right here, in our own backyard,” notes Risher. Thus far, Worldreader has reached 19 million readers in 48... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Case Study: Golden Ticket

2013–2014. I would attempt to get 40–50 percent market penetration before someone else gets the idea. That’s 500–600 customers. Then start selling the ancillary services. You have a geographic advantage in California, and there are lots of open spaces going east until... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Letters to the Editor

for HBS. Steve Taylor (MBA ’71) Park City, UT Is Current Capitalist Model Sustainable? The March Bulletin was uplifting. I was very pleased with the news about Al Gore visiting the campus and Garry Emmons’s article addressing the problem of a growing View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal health insurance... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
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Karmic Kickstart

Bhutan, a tiny South Asian country located high in the Himalayas with a population of under a million people, which has undergone incredible advances in infrastructure and education since the 1960s, when the king abolished serfdom and... View Details

Keywords: transitions; higher education; travel; reflection; cancer; Educational Services

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

the corridor, which was populated with glass offices, my workmates would kind of call me in and say, it's been not so good today, Perella just kind of reamed you a new one. So that was one. I was embarrassed by that. The other is, I... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Pricing Paradise

population is willing to pay $92 billion a year to protect, or not lose, the national parks and the service’s key programs such as education and historical preservation. Further studies by Bilmes and student researchers focus on... View Details