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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
investment officer, Brian Trelstad, must decide whether or not to fund two for-profit ventures. The first provides clean and accessible shower and toilet facilities in urban areas, serving a critical need for low-income populations—its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
young people and companies in need of skills. Year Up’s core program offers skills training and a six-month internship in high-growth fields like IT, Business Operations, and Finance. To date, the organization has helped connect over 36,000 View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
low-income countries. The high-quality firms that do exist focus on top-level searches, so companies must scramble to identify middle-level managers, engineers, or floor supervisors. Engineering colleges, business schools, and training... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(unlike most of Antares's for-profit partners) that operates in five Latin American countries. It combines microfinance with a primary health platform targeted toward low-income women. The Pro Mujer partnership demonstrates how Antares... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
victory parade through downtown San Francisco. Bottom, he speaks at a Junior Giants event, a program that brings baseball to children in low-income neighborhoods across California and neighboring states. While immersed in his front-office... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
temptations to which much of the rest of the developed world succumbed. At the same time, it created elements of Bolsa Familia, a "family grant," that provided substantial outright payments to low-income families as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
Harris, of Playing2Win Technology can also be used to bridge the asset gap and drive down the cost of programs designed to help low-income families, said HBS professor Peter Tufano (HBS MBA '84), who teaches financial management. Tufano... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
One Acre Fund, leading operations serving nearly 1 million farmers. Her most recent responsibilities included building a stronger ‘know your customer’ process and credit score model to better assess and accommodate the risk associated with serving View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
pandemic has led to a widespread acceleration in innovation, especially in the health care industry. Innovation tends to go hand-in-hand with accessibility and availability of health care solutions, which bodes well for low-income... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
of employees to invest in defined contribution plans and of employers to support them. Others worried whether low-income employees or those in small companies would get left behind. But a Fidelity study showed that most employees have... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Starbucks; The Nature Conservancy and Georgia-Pacific; Bidwell Training Center, a nonprofit vocational and technical school in Pennsylvania, and Bayer Corporation; and Jumpstart, a Boston-based NPO that prepares low-income preschoolers to... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
which offers low-income young adults training, mentorship, internships, and real jobs. Today, Year Up serves more than 1,300 students in nine cities across the nation. The book follows a Year Up class from admissions through graduation.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
business plans before a panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize was Wind & Rain R&D, a social enterprise entry that aims to foster urban development by facilitating home ownership among low-income renters. After a black-tie... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
Leap Joining up with Pierre-Jacques to take Harlem Capital to the next level was not an easy choice for Tingle. “It was nerve racking, I really liked what we were doing at Harlem Capital, but I didn’t necessarily see it as anywhere close to being a safe endeavor. I... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
enrollment hits related to the pandemic, including a 7-percent decline here at CCRI. Community college students are more likely to come from low-income communities and communities of color, precisely the groups that have been... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital
Leap Joining up with Pierre-Jacques to take Harlem Capital to the next level was not an easy choice for Tingle. “It was nerve racking, I really liked what we were doing at Harlem Capital, but I didn’t necessarily see it as anywhere close to being a safe endeavor. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
United States indicate that by age nine, African American and Hispanic students are 20 to 30 points below proficient cut off scores in math and reading. The high-school graduation rate in the 50 largest US cities is about 53 percent. Nationwide, View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
opportunities, housing, and access to capital. It found, for example, that low-income whites were twice as likely to be approved for loans as Native or African Americans with higher incomes. The task force's work helped convince one bank... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
policy changes are not essential for these changes to happen. Key policy areas to be addressed are: Access: Ultimately, access to care must be addressed through mandatory health insurance with subsidies for low-income citizens not covered... View Details