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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

city’s resurgence. He spearheaded the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, fought poverty with new programs that became national models, and turned around a failing school system. He also reduced carbon emissions by 13 percent, increased New... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

Assessing an organization's impact on a large-scale societal issue such as poverty is a complex and costly effort. In the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, for example, an organization like Oxfam America could be expected to provide data... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Portrait Project

Navroz D. Udwadia

to never take "no" for an answer. Above all else, I want to have the courage to never ever look away when confronted with the dignified poverty that grips my country. How can I afford to? 300 million people live on a dollar a... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • News

Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed

In a series of posts on LinkedIn, Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), co-chief investment officer and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, has written an extensive examination of modern capitalism. “I believe that all good things taken to an extreme can be self-destructive and... View Details
Keywords: capitalism
  • Portrait Project

Karen Sein

tragedies of difference often stemmed from the absence of opportunity. My education showed me new juxtapositions wherein abject poverty coexisted with opulent wealth. But the saddest image I saw was the disparities in health care, a... View Details
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Plastic Bank, a global network of micro-recycling markets that empower the poor to transcend poverty by getting paid to collect plastic waste in their communities. The Plastic Bank is an ecosystem that provides an opportunity for the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

emerging markets was a stronger calling. “Facing inequality and poverty can be depressing, and I could see an alternative life for myself where I wouldn’t be face to face with it every day,” Nneka said. “Yet I just felt this call to try... View Details
  • April 2019 (Revised April 2020)
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Reaganomics: Impact and Legacy

By: Tom Nicholas, John Masko and Matthew G. Preble
During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan and his administration instituted several far-reaching economic policies that had both near- and long-term impacts on such aspects of the U.S. economy as monetary policy, inflation, the tax structure, and the role of... View Details
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Business and Government Relations; Leadership; Taxation; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Inflation and Deflation; Money; Economy; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Economic Growth; Equality and Inequality; United States
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  • January 2011
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Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time

By: Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
Disagreements about the optimal level of wealth inequality underlie policy debates ranging from taxation to welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of "regular" Americans into these debates, by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Policy; Perspective; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Income; Demography; Debates; Welfare; Diversity; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
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  • 26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

passionate about giving back to society and is particularly interested in supporting women and children. She has served on UNICEF’s board of directors since 2005 and recently joined the board of the Robin Hood Foundation, an organization that fights View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance
  • 25 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

As the daughter of newly freed slaves on a Louisiana plantation, Sarah Breedlove's prospects at birth in 1867 foretold grinding poverty and toil. Over time, she graduated from the cotton fields to the washtub, marrying at the age of 14... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 22 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands

back in 2012, I was hoping to graduate and work in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. My goal was to contribute to eradicating energy poverty and improving general welfare. At that time, petroleum accounted for roughly 80% of the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Thesis Completed at the Faculty of the Humanities at Utrecht University for “Living Standards in British Africa in a Comparative Perspective, 1880–1945: Is Poverty Destiny?” Marlous van Waijenburg : 2010: Winner of the IISG-Volkskrant... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

It's not often that a best seller inspires academic research. If anything, it's usually the other way around. But Harvard Business School Associate Professor Diego A. Comin was motivated by reading Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2001
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Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

Vicente Fox, who was then governor of the state of Guanajuato. “I didn’t want to abandon the business or my research, because both were important to me,” recalls Ramirez. After Fox’s historic victory last summer, Ramirez joined a team of six development and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

Are people who travel in town cars and on corporate jets different—on a psychological level—from you and me? Does the availability of luxury goods "prime" individuals to be less concerned about or considerate toward others? The answer from new research seems... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 2001
  • Book

The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth

By: Josh Lerner and Paul Gompers
Keywords: Money; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Wealth
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  • 15 Nov 2018
  • Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

investments. Through Solara’s IoT-enabled systems with dynamic pricing, digital payments, and booking features, farmers can operate their own irrigation businesses, serving their non-pump owning neighbors water at rates below current diesel-irrigation prices. Our... View Details