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  • 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
  • May 2024
  • Article

Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis

By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu and Rowan P. Clarke
A significant proportion of the world's population has no access to grid-based electricity and so relies on off-grid lighting solutions. Rechargeable lamp technology is gaining popularity as an alternative off-grid lighting model in developing countries. In this paper,... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Behavior; Poverty; Logistics; Business Model; Utilities Industry
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  • Portrait Project

Terrance Rogers

No one ever told my mother to dream. She grew up in 1950s Georgia, where nothing of importance was expected of little black girls. Yet without a high school degree, she scraped her way up from rural poverty to build a wonderful life for... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves

To help eradicate poverty worldwide, Esther Hsu Wang (MBA 2009, MPA 2010) aims to ensure that the $630 billion spent annually in international development goes toward programs that work. Wang cofounded IDinsight to inform decisions based... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Jennifer Tom

worldwide. I too can save the world. While I have not fought mad scientists or supervillains from outer space, I have begun to battle evil. This past year I worked in Haiti and Rwanda to contribute to Partners In Health's fight against View Details
  • Portrait Project

Emily Wang

in bright pink sarongs danced and drummed in unison. It was breathtaking. Many of these children were orphaned by AIDS. All were struck by poverty and hardship. I saw that across the world, the pursuit of a life worth living ran... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

Arabia. I had the chance to work for different poverty alleviation programs, education reforms, and some healthcare initiatives with different governments. I am really passionate about understanding how to tackle View Details
  • 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
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Poverty; Health; Growth and Development Strategy; Nigeria
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  • April 12, 2024
  • Editorial

A New Paradigm for Family Giving

By: Christina R. Wing
Keywords: Family Business; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Wealth
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  • 08 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

at Collin County Community College before transferring to Cornell University where he majored in policy analysis and was exposed to poverty statistics for the first time. He was moved by them. “The United States puts forward a model for... View Details
  • Article

The Not-So-Common-Wealth of Australia: Evidence for a Cross-Cultural Desire for a More Equal Distribution of Wealth.

By: Michael I. Norton, David T. Neal, Cassandra L. Govan, Dan Ariely and Elise Holland
Recent evidence suggests that Americans underestimate wealth inequality in the United States and favor a more equal wealth distribution (Norton & Ariely, 2011). Does this pattern reflect ideological dynamics unique to the United States, or is the phenomenon evident in... View Details
Keywords: Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Australia; United States
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  • Profile

Gary Shi

ambitions. “Rural China still has lots of people living in poverty,” he says. “I want to bring back knowledge that can impact their lives.” Gary is not waiting until graduation, but has begun to exert influence through his involvement in the Enterprise Solutions for... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Raamin Mostaghimi

for in full with a year in poverty in a camp in southwestern Pakistan, with a night huddled under a blanket in the bed of a Toyota Hilux fleeing from the bullets of the Iranian border patrol, and with four years sewing baby clothes and... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Harman Kochar

If life could be planned I would have already –  Eradicated Poverty from the World Controlled Global Warming Established World Peace Cured all Diseases Discovered the fountain of youth and last but not the least.... Built my mansion on... View Details
  • August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Teaching Note

Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (TN)

By: Lakshmi Iyer and John D. Macomber
Teaching Note for [710004]. View Details
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Asia
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  • August 2011 (Revised May 2012)
  • Supplement

Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (B)

By: Tarun Khanna and Tanya Bijlani
Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore and has grown to twelve locations across India. The hospital plans to build 300-bed secondary-care hospitals in smaller cities across India, with a goal to operate 30,000 beds in... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Growth and Development Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Social Enterprise; Health Care and Treatment; Poverty; Welfare; Health Industry; Bangalore; Cayman Islands; Africa
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Kevin Omwega

people in Kenya face every day. I want to be there for them like Eric was for me. I want to help the single mother who works twenty hours a day to provide her family with basic needs, such as food and water. I want to help her children who are forced to beg for money... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Summit Sound Bites

Lawrence University Professor “I think the American people are dying to be asked to help solve some of these problems.” —Meg Whitman (MBA ’79), former President & CEO, eBay Inc. “Fear caused by greed needed to be bailed out with $700 billion; fear caused by View Details
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States seek to reduce View Details
  • 04 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS

jobs while re-credentialing herself as a nurse.” After high school, Mbanusi earned his Associates degree at Collin County Community College before transferring to Cornell University where he majored in policy analysis and was exposed to View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital