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Happiness on Tap: Piped Water Adoption in Urban Morocco

By: Florencia Devoto, Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, William Pariente and Vincent Pons

Connecting private dwellings to the water main is expensive and typically cannot be publicly financed. We show that households' willingness to pay for a private connection is high when it can be purchased on credit, not because a connection improves health but because... View Details

Keywords: Water Supply; Urban Development; Household; Credit; Well-being; Morocco

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01 Mar 2010
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What Happened to Leadership?

IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military... View Details

Keywords: Management; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1998
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Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development

having a profound effect, for we are spending a significant portion of the fund this year on a variety of activities, including recruiting tenured faculty, providing support for the development of rising junior faculty, and bringing business practitioners to the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2011
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Letters to the Editor

50-Plus Years of Entrepreneurship I was disturbed by the June Bulletin's infographic showing that HBS had been teaching entrepreneurship for only 50 years (page 7). As a student at HBS, I took Management of New Enterprises, an excellent... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2002
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Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference

Joseph Yam (fourth from left), chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), and Vincent Lee, administrative assistant to the HKMA chief executive (third from left), with HBSA-HK copresident Hamilton Tang (MBA '90),... View Details

28 Mar 2019
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California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) , in partnership with the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC), the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC), and the HBS Club of San Diego (HBSCSD), the event was the sixth... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future

remarks on implementing sustainability in a Fortune 500 corporation. The entire event was brilliantly moderated by Ali Aslan, world-class international journalist. Vincent Dessain (MBA 1987), the head of the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 May 2014
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Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

discussion of "The Capitalist's Dilemma"—the challenges of innovating for long-term growth and job creation—in the Harvard Business Review. The team of more than 150 people (see below) collaborated using the OI Engine platform developed View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over time. We address this gap... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107047 Chongqing Tiandi Harvard Business School Case 207-019 In late 2000, Vincent Lo, a prominent Hong Kong developer was invited by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

for the limitless possibilities associated with California and the West. And in keeping with the entrepreneurial dynamism that is so much a part of today's information technology explosion, "the City by the Bay" has always been a magnet... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

understanding how this revolution is uncovering the simple but unfamiliar truth that space is a place: a place where countries, markets, and each of us can play a vital role in realizing some of our biggest, boldest dreams. 11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m. EDT The Future of... View Details

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exam. Copyright © 2025 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved. Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Course Number 1180 Professor Vincent Pons Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27... View Details

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