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- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
value-added products like yogurt. The entry of large multi-brand retailers like Walmart and Carrefour in the Indian market threatens to squeeze Amul's margins and undermine its low-cost distribution network. India's large young rural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested in a first round of funding to connect major cities. Should he invest again, this time in a rural roll-out, which may have lower financial returns but greater social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty, also increased the incidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Lenders, and the Politics of Household Debt Catherine S.M. Duggan and Alexander RoehrkasseHarvard Business School Case 710-048 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710048-PDF-ENG eHealthpoint: Healthcare for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
a business opportunity. Walson charged two dollars a month for this service, and by the middle of 1948 had 727 customers. He and other entrepreneurs soon began setting up similar "Community Antenna Television" systems in rural... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
in predominantly rural societies, increased income sets in motion forces that "restore the previous level of deprivation," thus thwarting individual motivation and the likelihood of emergence from conditions of mass poverty.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
that can turn these problems into opportunities. The book provides examples of business efforts that promote social good without sacrificing profit: a mobile communications rollout in rural China that "extended the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
start-up that provides clean drinking water to more than 64,000 rural villagers in India. The company uses a franchise model in which local entrepreneurs filter and sell water to members of their community. "In India, 87 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
required to accomplish such a planned massive expansion, from yet-to-be hit rural areas to overwhelmed urban health systems. As leaders consider how to tackle the task, they might look at the Harvard Business School case study of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
survey of randomly selected urban and rural colleges and document statistically significant differences in employment opportunities for rural and urban graduates. Our survey results also indicate that not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and opportunity gaps between urban and View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
910-418 The world's leading Thai agribusiness corporation and largest agribusiness investor in China, CP Group, is facing another crossroads in China as the country starts to undergo rural reform. The issues at hand for Chairman Dhanin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
lending, pawnbroking, refund-anticipation loans, and informal lending. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209107 Invest Early: Early Childhood Development in a Rural Community Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem: It's not clear whether the local agency flagging the potential... View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
poultry chicken he bred to address the nutritional and income needs of some of the poorest people on earth: India's rural villagers. As of November 2006, Keggfarms was supplying chicks to about 4 million poor villagers, generating incomes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
smartphones for the masses to similar other innovative technologies for rural households." Heaven forbid, Kapil Kumar Sopory even suggested that the problem is us. "Each one (of us) has his limited priorities and remains content... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
exploiting indigenous communities for the benefit of their new employers in the West? And a more hopeful question: Were there cases in which Western firms and rural Indian societies shared the licensing fees from herbal patents? "We... View Details
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
territories. The prospect of Chevron Texaco's multimillion dollar investment in Kazakhstan, for example, is threatened by poverty in that country's rural areas. A World Development Corporation project to rehabilitate agriculture after the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson