Populism - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

jobs, and justice. All of our focus areas are looking at vulnerable populations and helping people find a path out of poverty. And the initiative that you saw was GetCalFresh, which is one of our big food initiatives in California, to... View Details

08 Aug 2018
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Getting Life Back in Balance

community––it interacts with citizens on a daily basis and is completely accountable to the people it represents,” he says. Wattle Range is a region in southern South Australia made up of 13 towns, with a population of 11,677. The region... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

private sector, for one, do more. “There is a responsibility, particularly in a global economy, for corporations to invest in educating children around the world,” she says. “A lot of the insecurity in the world stems from populations... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2006
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Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass

It doesn’t take long before entire populations are removed, and that’s what has happened. Why don’t people seem as impassioned about protecting endangered fish as they do about, say, saving trees? People talk about the world becoming a... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

taken up by the population overall. So I think there's a lot we can learn about metaphors and visual language and how we can help people understand a crisis through those tools. That's exactly the same thing that we're trying to do with... View Details

09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

million people living there in the region where they want to build a park. And so McKinsey went in, I led the team-- we went in to look at alternative ways to build economic-- sort of alternative economic livelihood for the local View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

Walt Whitman termed “the pulse of the continent.” As the century drew to a close, railroads dominated both freight and passenger traffic over long distances. But in densely populated cities, horse-drawn streetcars were still the most... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

Pitchfork populism over the issue reached a crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers’ cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Sep 2011
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Green Day

best locations to generate it are far from the densely populated areas that need it. Wind-generated electricity traveling from western Kansas to St. Louis, for example, loses up to 15 percent of its energy en route. The Grain Belt... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love

re-create the transparency and social accountability that would come if a couple met offline through a mutual friend. The app populates a user’s dating profile with information and current photos from Facebook; recently Hinge added... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

from where it is grown to the tables where it is consumed. The global population is rising, with the United Nations projecting it to swell to 9.7 billion from its current 7.7 billion by 2050. “We also have to solve the calorie deficiency... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

07 Sep 2021
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Growing Home

were about 50 people, and we started to hold meetings with the mayor of Mito, who agreed to support the project through deregulation, by providing tax incentives, and by communicating with the city’s population so the project could move... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

05 Aug 2016
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Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

says Amadio. In fact, Amadio and two classmates—David Gellis (MD/MBA 2010), today medical director of Population Health at Boston-based Iora Health, and Vinod Nambudiri (MD/MBA 2010), now an internist, hospitalist, and associate program... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

percent of the population has credit cards. Go-Jek drivers offered their customers rain gear and surgical masks as protection against the streets’ noxious fumes. And all Go-Jek drivers received road safety training; gone were the... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Mar 2014
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Feedback

Hunter (MBA 1981) via LinkedIn IN RESPONSE: David, I would go a step further. Yes, there is a lot that can be done to improve care delivery; your idea is a good one, though even that is just a Band-Aid on the bigger problem. When the larger ecosystem results in... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

16 Oct 2013
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Progress Through Preservation

build as sponges to soak up rainwater and storm runoff. "It's not just about preserving land," says Rogers, "but making it useful for communities." Overpopulation? As the population grows, the need for those local parks and natural areas... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; Real Estate

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

Still, women entrepreneurs—11 percent of the US working population in 2013, according to a report by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor—receive significantly less venture capital money than their male counterparts. HBS Assistant Professor... View Details