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- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
an alternative commitment device that is widespread and highly accessible, but there is little empirical evidence evaluating their effectiveness. We conduct two randomized field experiments among low-income micro-entrepreneurs in Chile.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Fall 2014 | Focus: International Development and Environmental Impact Team: Efosa Ojomo Description: Wecyclers is powering social change using the environment by helping people in low-income communities capture value from their waste. In... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
Indonesian villages cost $6 a month for 10 months or $60. Aldi realized he could provide pots for $25 each—and he could do it without interest charges. He would formalize something that was already popular in Indonesian culture, the “arisan.” In 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 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
considered so basic that, regardless of culture, they are accepted as public responsibilities. However, for the low-income populations in developing countries, which constitute the majority of the world, access to these takes place... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Nancy Barry (MBA 1975), founder and president of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty, which mobilizes and supports leading companies and entrepreneurs in building profitable and inclusive businesses that incorporate millions of low-income... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
that Invest Early children were better prepared for kindergarten than their low-income counterparts and the proficiency gap between Invest Early and high-income children had decreased significantly. Integrating and sustaining such a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
2008, targeted at millions of low-income Indian consumers who did not have access to safe drinking water. The case describes in detail the product development and launch process that required HUL, the $3.5 billion Indian subsidiary, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Holdings: “During this crisis, First Philippine Holdings (FPH) has provided stop-gap measures to support low-income communities with basic provisions until the government could mobilize its own resources and strengthen social cohesion.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
expertise to improve the lives of children and youth of low-income families in the Washington, D.C., region. Morino is the author of Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity. Alnoor S. Ebrahim is an associate professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
when he signed up as a volunteer teacher with Nativity Prep in Boston, a tuition-free Jesuit middle school for boys from low-income families. After just two years of teaching, he moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to cofound and serve... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
differently. We envisioned an interdisciplinary social enterprise, with a mission to create inclusive cities where poor and low-income people had greater housing choices. At mHS, we emphasize three principles: community, design, and... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the burdensome... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
person one rank above them instead of the person one rank below. Last-place aversion suggests that low-income individuals might oppose redistribution because it could differentially help the group just beneath them. Using survey data, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political and economic history of Rwanda, but focuses on the country preceding and after the genocide. A description of government policies since 1994 enables... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
US-Mexico border, Mireya’s personal experiences with educational inequities inspired a deep commitment to empowering underrepresented communities. She founded Envisions Project, a nonprofit organization that provides first-generation and/or View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
Endeavor Entrepreneur Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
and a little understood provision in the federal tax code that is implemented at the state level, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). The relationship is complex because, while the federal government uses the CRA to control bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
surveys, and content analysis, as well as promising newer methods like experiments, agent-based modeling, and cognitive mapping—we hope to provide the kind of brush clearing that will enable the field to move forward methodologically as well. Business and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace