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- September 2024
- Article
Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock
By: Patrick Agte, Arielle Bernhardt, Erica M. Field, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol
How do poor entrepreneurs trade off investments in business enterprises versus children's human capital, and how do these choices influence intergenerational socio-economic mobility? To examine this, we exploit experimental variation in household income resulting from... View Details
Agte, Patrick, Arielle Bernhardt, Erica M. Field, Rohini Pande, and Natalia Rigol. "Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock." American Economic Review 114, no. 9 (September 2024): 2792–2824.
- January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd
Kenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in dealing with the pervasive housing troubles in his country. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and home to more than 800,000 residents, yet only measures two square kilometers, roughly half the size of... View Details
Retsinas, Nicolas P., Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz, and John Dean Shepherd. "Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)." Harvard Business School Case 207-017, January 2007. (Revised May 2009.)
- December 20, 2007
- Article
Profit And Poverty: Why It Matters
By: Michael Chu
Commentary on investing in microfinance View Details
- 2007
- Chapter
Fighting AIDS, Fighting Poverty: Customer Centric Marketing in the Generic Antiretroviral Business
By: Rohit Deshpandé and Zoe Chance
Keywords: Health Disorders; Poverty; Product Marketing; Customers; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry
Deshpandé, Rohit, and Zoe Chance. "Fighting AIDS, Fighting Poverty: Customer Centric Marketing in the Generic Antiretroviral Business." In Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
- 10 AM – 11 AM EDT, 22 Oct 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Collective Impact: An Innovative Approach to Improving Public Education
In this webinar, Professor Grossman will describe an innovative approach to improving public education Collective Impact and how you can get involved to help transform public education in the communities you care about. View Details
- Article
From Blood Diamonds to Dirty Gold: How to Buy Gold Less Tainted by Mercury
By: Kristin Sippl
This is a quick and easy news article on the link between poverty, mercury pollution, and gold mining. It explains the problems in the jewelry industry as well as public and civil society attempts to address them. View Details
Sippl, Kristin. "From Blood Diamonds to Dirty Gold: How to Buy Gold Less Tainted by Mercury." The Conversation (December 22, 2015).
- September 2022
- Article
The Impact of Financial Assistance Programs on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Kaiser Permanente
By: Alyce S. Adams, Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Jinglin Wang, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Most hospitals have financial assistance programs for low-income patients. We use administrative data from Kaiser Permanente to study the effects of financial assistance on health care utilization. Using a regression discontinuity design based on an income threshold... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Utilization; Financial Assistance; Health Care and Treatment; Social Issues; Poverty; Health Industry
Adams, Alyce S., Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Jinglin Wang, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. "The Impact of Financial Assistance Programs on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Kaiser Permanente." American Economic Review: Insights 4, no. 3 (September 2022): 389–407.
- 2002
- Book
Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky
Retsinas, Nicolas P. and Eric S. Belsky, eds. Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2002.
- October 2, 2010
- Book Review
The Wealth of an Intellect
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Keywords: Wealth
Koehn, Nancy F. "The Wealth of an Intellect." New York Times (October 2, 2010). (Book Review.)
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
Corruption, Poverty, and Global Finance Thank you for your excellent article about global poverty in the March Bulletin. I’m delighted to see these issues getting more attention. This year marks the 45th year of my involvement in the... View Details
- Article
Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India
By: Erica Field, Rohini Pande, John Papp and Natalia Rigol
Do the repayment requirements of the classic microfinance contract inhibit investment in high-return but illiquid business opportunities among the poor? Using a field experiment, we compare the classic contract which requires that repayment begin immediately after loan... View Details
Field, Erica, Rohini Pande, John Papp, and Natalia Rigol. "Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India." American Economic Review 103, no. 6 (October 2013): 2196–2226.
- 2008
- Chapter
Public Action for Public Goods: Theory and Evidence
By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
This chapter focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective... View Details
- 2015
- Report
Growth & Shared Prosperity
By: Karen G. Mills
In June 2015, nearly 75 experienced leaders from across business, government, labor, academia, and media gathered at Harvard Business School to discuss a topic of increasing concern in America: How can our nation continue to remain competitive while also providing a... View Details
Mills, Karen G. "Growth & Shared Prosperity." Report, U.S. Competitiveness Project, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2015 (With contributions from Joseph B. Fuller and Jan W. Rivkin.)
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
As the second president of the Costa Rica–based EARTH University, Arturo Condo (DBA 2000) is following his passion for education that has a demonstrable impact on the world. “EARTH’s students have the potential to lift people out of View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
Thrive! helps communities of color Roughly 84 percent of children born into poverty will live in poverty for the rest of their lives. Thrive! is a software-as-a-service that helps local governments break the... View Details
- September 2008
- Article
Where Oil-Rich Nations Are Placing Their Bets
By: Rawi Abdelal, Ayesha Khan and Tarun Khanna
Abdelal, Rawi, Ayesha Khan, and Tarun Khanna. "Where Oil-Rich Nations Are Placing Their Bets." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 9 (September 2008): 119–128.
- December 2019
- Case
Noiler
By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
In 2019, Nigerian entrepreneur Dr. Ayoola (Ayo) Oduntan is accelerating distribution of Noiler, a genetically optimized breed of poultry, to smallholder farmers across Nigeria. The bird was bred to be productive as a source of both meat and eggs and to thrive in the... View Details
- Nov 2015
- Audio
Prospects for Shared Prosperity: Findings from the 2015 Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
prosperity in America? Do they see the lack of shared prosperity as a problem, either for society or for their companies? Are they satisfied with an economy that is growing strongly in aggregate, or do they care more about outcomes such as income equality, middle-class... View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Scaling a Fintech Startup for the Greater Good
Keywords: Financial Services
- November – December 2010
- Article
Robin Hood under the Hood: Wealth-based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help
By: F. Gino and L. Pierce
Gino, F., and L. Pierce. "Robin Hood under the Hood: Wealth-based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help." Organization Science 21, no. 6 (November–December 2010): 1176–1194.