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  • 21 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

supply chain are the unseen farm laborers—most of them women—who tend the coffee trees each day on the hillsides of rural Kenya. Margaret Nyamumbo (MBA 2016) founded Kahawa 1893 in 2017 to shorten the distance between these Kenyan farmers... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2015
  • News

Sweet Success

York chefs. “We had all this land, with about 20,000 old-growth sugar maples and red maples,” relates Turner. “Big picture, this was 2009 and we were newcomers in a rural area where the unemployment rate was 15 percent. We wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Generation Next

family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years, entering poultry processing,... View Details
Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • News

Warrior Spirit

much as $4,000 a night—an astronomical sum in Thailand, for instance, where the average annual income is just over $5,000, and much, much lower in rural areas. “For most of these people, martial arts offered a way out. It’s a way of life... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services
  • 24 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

initial survey of several thousand rural households in West Bengal, India, they discovered that people don’t wash their hands with soap for the same reason most of us don’t run three miles every morning or drink eight glasses of water... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

benefits from the company's low prices. Wal-Mart operates 2-1/2 times as much selling space per inhabitant in the poorest one-third of states as in the richest one-third. And within these states, it focuses on poorer districts and consumers. Without Wal-Mart,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
  • 13 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

of the population lives in rural areas, but the majority of bank branches and jobs are in the cities. To send money home, a city worker had to seal his wages in an envelope and pay a courier to travel for hours to the village.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications
  • Web

The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Security Administration photographers were documenting rural poverty. In her book Artists, Advertising, and the Borders of Art , Michele Bogart asserts that “Documentary photographers utilized the photographic image, seemingly in... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

and took them private, they moved it much more to being a general store, daily necessities, stuff like that, and they expanded dramatically across rural America. Family Dollar has followed that model. A lot of their private-label... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Breaking News

like a local newsroom but are actually pumping out politically motivated material. It is also incredibly difficult to build a digital brand in this environment, and the platforms with the biggest audiences, like Facebook, are so polluted. So when I hear from publishers... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 30 Jun 2021
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

and not always at the forefront of sustainability practices. “It can take a while to improve these processes, and I think the industry is moving in that direction. But, during the 1960s and 70s, the palm oil cluster was a huge engine of growth and infrastructure for... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

bank accounts. She left her talking points and went on a tear: “I said, guys, if you don’t move now, the fintechs will take you over.” The bankers complained about the difficulty of gaining customers in rural markets with high rates of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 04 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

2021 I’m a vegetarian. I love escaping into the woods to live off the grid, sleep on the dirt, and eat over an open fire. I’m obsessive about minimizing waste and buying second hand. These are things my dad did too, but not by choice. My dad grew up in View Details
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • News

Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

seeds of entrepreneurship among rural youth in America's heartland. Schultz is the founder and CEO of Agracel, an industrial development firm that focuses on rural America. Since 1986, Agracel, based in... View Details
Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing
  • 2002
  • Chapter

Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937

By: Elisabeth Koll
Keywords: History; Human Capital; Rural Scope; Society; China
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Koll, Elisabeth. "Factories in the Countryside: The Industrial Workforce and Social Division in Nantong County, 1895-1937." In Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception, edited by David Faure and Tao Tao Liu, 107–125. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Bold Idea Takes Off

Falik Photo Courtesy Abby Falik As a teenager, Abby Falik (MBA ’08) spent a summer living in a rural Nicaraguan village, an experience that inspired her to dream of ways she could help other young people have meaningful experiences in... View Details
Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 26 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health

The summer between my first and second year at HBS I had the opportunity to intern at Main Street Health, a Nashville-based startup focused on facilitating value-based care for rural Medicare populations. Main Street Health works to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

A Better World, One Idea at a Time

offering a brand of all-natural facial moisturizing oils derived from argan oil, obtained from southern Morocco’s argan tree. The company will work with the rural poor to build sustainable business around argan oil production. Emprofit,... View Details
Keywords: contests; awards; cosmetics; Crop Production; Agriculture; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • Web

Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health - Recruiting

Nashville-based startup focused on facilitating value-based care for rural Medicare populations. Main Street Health works to bridge the gap in health care access for rural communities by establishing... View Details
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