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      • November 2010 (Revised October 2012)
      • Background Note

      Farmland Investing: A Technical Note

      By: Ray Goldberg, Arthur I Segel, Gustavo Herrero and Andrew Terris
      This note seeks to provide an overview of farmland investing, the investment thesis behind investing in agriculture, how and why investors would choose farmland, and the general risks and return characteristics of this asset class. In recent years, a growing number of... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Investment; Investment Return; Risk Management; Property; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Asia; United States; South America
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      Goldberg, Ray, Arthur I Segel, Gustavo Herrero, and Andrew Terris. "Farmland Investing: A Technical Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 211-022, November 2010. (Revised October 2012.)
      • November 2010
      • Article

      Wealth and Jobs: The Broken Link

      By: Nitin Nohria
      This article discusses the weakening connections between business growth and job creation. The industrial economy of the 20th century ensured that growing firms would need to add workers, but the increasingly globalized and information-based economy of the early 21st... View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Economic Growth; Jobs and Positions; Employment; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; Value Creation
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      Nohria, Nitin. "Wealth and Jobs: The Broken Link." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010): 44.
      • October 2010 (Revised June 2021)
      • Case

      Bessemer Trust: Guardians of Capital

      By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
      Henry Phipps, Jr. made his fortune in the steel industry alongside one of America's most celebrated entrepreneurs—Andrew Carnegie. His wealth was administered in the form of trusts, which he hoped would provide a stream of income for his family and their descendants... View Details
      Keywords: Wealth; Asset Management; Family Business; Business History; Income; Entrepreneurship; Capital; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Bessemer Trust: Guardians of Capital." Harvard Business School Case 811-031, October 2010. (Revised June 2021.)
      • October 2, 2010
      • Book Review

      The Wealth of an Intellect

      By: Nancy F. Koehn
      Keywords: Wealth
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      Koehn, Nancy F. "The Wealth of an Intellect." New York Times (October 2, 2010). (Book Review.)
      • 1 Oct 2010
      • Conference Presentation

      I Give Therefore I Have: Charitable Giving and Subjective Wealth

      By: Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton
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      Chance, Zoe, and Michael I. Norton. "I Give Therefore I Have: Charitable Giving and Subjective Wealth." Paper presented at the Association for Consumer Research Annual Conference, Jacksonville, FL, October 1, 2010.
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave

      By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
      The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime... View Details
      Keywords: Safety; Wealth and Poverty; Selection and Staffing; Crime and Corruption; Income; Leading Change; Information Management; Argentina
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      Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave." Chap. 5 in The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, 175–204. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

      By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
      We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details
      Keywords: History; Natural Environment; Non-Renewable Energy; Values and Beliefs; Price; Poverty; Policy; Economy; United States
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      Di Tella, Rafael, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch. "A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism." In The Natural Resources Trap: Private Investment without Public Commitment, edited by William Hogan and Federico Sturzenegger. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
      • 2010
      • Book

      The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System

      By: as part of the Squam Lake Working Group Scharfstein, David S.
      In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations
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      Scharfstein, David S., as part of the Squam Lake Working Group. The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
      • April 2010
      • Case

      Manchester Bidwell Corporation: the Replication Question

      By: Toby E. Stuart, G. Felda Hardymon, James L. Heskett and Ann Leamon
      Bill Strickland, CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, must decide the best way to replicate his innovative, award-winning approach to curing poverty. Manchester Bidwell's approach, which provides both adult job-training tuned to fill the needs of local industries and... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Training; Competency and Skills; Jobs and Positions; Human Resources
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      Stuart, Toby E., G. Felda Hardymon, James L. Heskett, and Ann Leamon. "Manchester Bidwell Corporation: the Replication Question." Harvard Business School Case 810-097, April 2010.
      • March 2010 (Revised May 2013)
      • Case

      Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)

      By: Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini and Renee Kim
      In 2008, Andres Velasco, Chile's Finance Minister, was under mounting criticisms over his fiscal policy. As the world's largest copper producer, Chile was benefiting from the rise in copper prices, which had more than tripled since 2003. Copper revenues translated into... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Metals and Minerals; Investment Funds; Policy; State Ownership; Wealth; Chile
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      Alfaro, Laura, Dante Roscini, and Renee Kim. "Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-019, March 2010. (Revised May 2013.)
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage

      By: Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano
      We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals' usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of Americans have reduced medical care than have... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Health Care and Treatment; France; Germany; Great Britain; Canada; United States
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      Lusardi, Annamaria, Daniel Schneider, and Peter Tufano. "The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-079, March 2010.
      • 2010
      • Book

      Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism

      By: Peter Wehner and Arthur C. Brooks
      Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as... View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Moral Sensibility
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      Wehner, Peter, and Arthur C. Brooks. Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2010.
      • 2010
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      Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond 'Basic Needs'

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
      We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries... View Details
      Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Human Needs; Income; Adaptation; Economic Growth
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond 'Basic Needs'." Chap. 8 in International Differences in Well-Being, edited by Ed Diener, John Helliwell, and Daniel Kahneman, 217–247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
      • December 2009 (Revised May 2010)
      • Case

      Codevasf

      By: David E. Bell, Marcos Fava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro and Natalie Kindred
      With many countries facing scarcity of freshwater and farmable land, Brazil decided to leverage its wealth of both resources to attract global agribusiness players to the historically poor Sao Francisco Valley (SFV) in the country's northeast. To do so, Brazil was... View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Resource Allocation; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Supply Chain; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil
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      Bell, David E., Marcos Fava Neves, Luciano Thome e Castro, and Natalie Kindred. "Codevasf." Harvard Business School Case 510-042, December 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
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      Coming Out of Recession: The Role of Business in Alleviating Poverty

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Djordjija B. Petkoski
      Keywords: Economics; Business Ventures; Poverty
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Djordjija B. Petkoski. "Coming Out of Recession: The Role of Business in Alleviating Poverty." Development Outreach 11, no. 3 (December 2009).
      • December 2009
      • Article

      From a Declaration of Values to the Creation of Value in Global Health

      By: Jim Yong Kim, Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain and Michael E. Porter
      To make best use of the new dollars available for the treatment of disease in resource poor settings, global health practice requires a strategic approach that emphasizes value for patients, defined as health outcomes per dollar spent. Practitioners and global health... View Details
      Keywords: Globalization; Health Care and Treatment; Infrastructure; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Poverty; Value Creation
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      Kim, Jim Yong, Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, and Michael E. Porter. "From a Declaration of Values to the Creation of Value in Global Health." Global Public Health (December 2009).
      • November 2009 (Revised March 2013)
      • Case

      PureCircle

      By: David E. Bell and Aldo Sesia
      In December 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined that high-purity Rebaudioside A (Reb A), a natural and calorie-free product that a young company named PureCircle manufactured from the Stevia plant, could be used in beverages, foods, and as a... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Investment; Globalization; Leadership; Risk Management; Product Launch; Production; Performance Productivity; Business and Shareholder Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      Bell, David E., and Aldo Sesia. "PureCircle." Harvard Business School Case 510-032, November 2009. (Revised March 2013.)
      • 22 Oct 2009
      • Conference Presentation

      Charitable Giving and Subjective Wealth

      By: Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton
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      Chance, Zoe, and Michael I. Norton. "Charitable Giving and Subjective Wealth." Paper presented at the Association for Consumer Research Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 22, 2009.
      • August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
      • Teaching Note

      Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (TN)

      By: Lakshmi Iyer and John D. Macomber
      Teaching Note for [710004]. View Details
      Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Asia
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      Iyer, Lakshmi, and John D. Macomber. "Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 710-011, August 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
      • July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
      • Case

      The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana

      By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
      A U.S. government agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), provides aid to developing countries, focusing on poverty reduction through economic growth. It measures results through an economic rate of return based on increases in farmer incomes anticipated... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Investment Return; Measurement and Metrics; Welfare; Ghana; United States
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      Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Ghana." Harvard Business School Case 310-025, July 2009. (Revised May 2010.)
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