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  • July 2024 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: Bringing Systematic Investment to Philanthropy

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Alexander Bischoff and Sophia Pan
Melissa Berman, CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), evaluated her client’s philanthropy project and its mediocre performance. RPA was a segment of the Rockefeller Family Office’s Philanthropy Department, becoming an independent charity in 2002. Consistently... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropic Sector; Foundation; Due Diligence; Humanitarianism; Humanitarian Assistance; Grants; HNW Products And Services; Donations; Impact; Advisor; Advice; Consulting; Funding; Consulting Services; Family Business; Cost vs Benefits; Developing Countries and Economies; Private Sector; Spending; Mission and Purpose; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Evaluation; Nonprofit Organizations; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Experience and Expertise; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); United States
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  • 19 May 2003
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

developing countries. Raj De Datta The three of us come from very different backgrounds (entrepreneurship, private equity, and general management) but share a common passion for the problems of economic... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services
  • 11 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health means that no system is viewed with as much suspicion by so many people around the globe. Changing societal expectations and scientific and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Harvard Business School

leadership at HBS. Read the essay Andrew F. Brimmer "I do feel that the economic plight of blacks is a serious matter. So I bring the same economist's tool kit to that subject as other economists bring to examine other national View Details
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a rising standard of living to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • Portrait Project

Rohit Pursram

"To find fulfillment, don't exist with life. Embrace it." – Jim Beggs I hope to achieve balance between the depth and breadth of my life experiences, to pursue my passions of music, media, art, and economic View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

The Transformers

Zone (HCZ) and Youth Villages. The HCZ started modestly in the early 1990s with the idea of providing a range of support services to address the problems of poor families living in a single block of New York City. As one of Bridgespan’s early clients, HCZ needed help... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

people, rotating them, developing them, putting them in challenging assignments. Those are things you can actually do something about. What I am saying is that companies should clone the processes in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Article

Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Microdata

By: Jonathan Haskel and Raffaella Sadun
We explore the effects of planning regulation on the UK retail sector between 1997 and 2003 using micro-data from the UK census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Cost; Retail Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 20 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

Professors Ananth Raman and Roy Shapiro are two members of the HBS faculty team that developed the new Executive Education program, Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective. In this conversation with the Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 2004
  • Chapter

Banking Reform in India

By: Shawn A. Cole, A. Banerjee and E. Duflo
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; India
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  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Merton Named University Professor

in Economic Sciences for his work on the valuation of stock options, had held the George Fisher Baker Professorship of Business Administration at HBS since 1988. The John and Natty McArthur University Professorship was established after... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Emerging Market/Frontier Market Fellowship Resources

data   World Development Indicators: Statistics from the World Bank for almost 600 development indicators, dating as far back as 1960. Economist Intelligence Unit: Country reports and a tool to... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Lessons from a Megacity

Lima toll road in Peru. In Buenos Aires, despite Argentina’s economic difficulties, the team found a model transit system—including a new bus rapid transit system to alleviate congestion—that residents have embraced for its convenience... View Details
Keywords: April White; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
  • March 2025
  • Case

GiveDirectly: Can Direct Cash Transfers End Extreme Poverty?

By: Natalia Rigol, Benjamin N. Roth, Sarah Mehta and John Schultz
Founded in 2008, GiveDirectly was a nonprofit organization that used direct cash transfers—giving people cash via mobile money—to combat poverty worldwide. By August 2024, the organization had transferred over $800 million to poor people in targeted communities and... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Ethics; Growth and Development; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Research; Nonprofit Organizations; Poverty; Africa; Asia; Latin America; North and Central America; United States
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  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Africa's Way

conference will result in more faculty engagement and research in Africa," he says. Continuing Education in Cape Town While managing development in sub-Saharan Africa will be the primary focus of the March gathering, the conference has a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources

by Ann Kelly, Alumni Board President Kelly Whether you graduated last June or just celebrated a reunion with a number you don’t enjoy saying aloud, you may be among those alumni who see HBS’s contribution to your development as having... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

An Economy Undermined

became securities-trading companies more than money-raising companies. Meanwhile, an ideological war was developing in the country between those who believed government was largely the cause of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance
  • 07 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

and how these differences in terms of economic development affect appropriate policy choices. In particular, questions arise as to the role of cluster initiatives, an instrument that has become more widely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne