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  • October 2008
  • Article

Choosing Agents and Monitoring Consumption: A Note on Wealth as a Corruption-Controlling-Device

By: Rafael Di Tella and Federico Weinschelbaum
Keywords: Wealth; Crime and Corruption
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  • 2011
  • Chapter

El Sector Privado y las Responsabilidades Públicas: El Rol de las Soluciones Comerciales en la Temática Social

By: Michael Chu
In today's world, certain goods and services are 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... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Developing Countries and Economies; Private Sector; Public Sector; Management Practices and Processes; Human Needs; Poverty; Commercialization
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  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S1064-4857_2014_0000016007   Working Papers Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Petia B. Topalova Abstract—Does View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Portrait Project

Kasia Biezychudek

might have choices of my own. I wish that I may help others find their stage and inspire them to act. Over and over again, my travels remind me that not all parents can do as mine. And despite tireless efforts, the troubles of our world persist. People live in View Details
  • Profile

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

professors. These HBS experiences solidified my ultimate career vision, which was to be at the forefront of an innovative social enterprise focused on education and poverty alleviation. What are you most looking forward to in your career?... View Details
Keywords: Other Financial Services; Nonprofit / Government
  • Portrait Project

Jordan Bazinsky

contraption. But why stop at the edges of my own yard? I will build an organization that empowers others to create safe and healthy homes. The depth of poverty and malnutrition in our world is overwhelming but addressing the problem... View Details
  • Article

Clogs to Clogs in Three Generations? Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance in Britain Since 1850

By: Tom Nicholas
Research into culture and entrepreneurship in Britain has been dominated by casual empiricism. This article shows the benefits of using a new method. Lifetime wealth accumulation is specified as a measure of entrepreneurial performance, and applied to data collected... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Performance Evaluation; Biography; Culture; Education; Wealth; Research; Great Britain
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  • 06 Jun 2013
  • News

Exploring the American Dream: From Pakistan to HBS

Keywords: Finance; Telecommunications; Information
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • News

A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

$70 million to almost $700 million—to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth. Then, with MCC assistance, countries take the lead in designing and implementing programs, with both the MCC and the recipient country... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • April 2022
  • Case

Connecting Students in Chattanooga (A)

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Manjari Raman
As COVID-19 hit and school buildings closed across America in the spring of 2020, tens of thousands of K-12 students in Chattanooga’s Hamilton County lacked the high-quality Internet service required to connect them to remote education. Bryan Johnson, superintendent... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; Pandemic; COVID-19; Accessibility; Education; Urban Development; Wealth and Poverty; Online Technology; Education Industry; Tennessee
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  • Portrait Project

Anh M. Nguyen

individuals. I will try to figure out what their stories-their frying pans-are. In particular, I will reach out to individuals whose stories might never be heard due to poverty or unequal access to education. I will listen and I will act.... View Details
  • Profile

Michael Son

classes on making change at the community level; on the causes of poverty and how to address them." But in his senior year, the promise of a "free week's vacation" gave him entrée to his first real-world business... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector

World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector Describing his organization's mission as one focused on issues of poverty and equity, World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) addressed the... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

with a company and its products. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53707 January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality By: Kaplan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Healthy Profit

(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • Portrait Project

Amy McGowan

My history is built on the American Dream. My maternal great-great-grandparents emigrated from Germany determined to build a thriving farm in the Midwest. Hard work enabled them to live the American Dream. My Dad emerged from a life of 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
  • 07 May 2020
  • News

Ensuring Student Equity

Once the public schools in North Chicago decided to close in mid-March because of COVID-19, it took Jennifer Grumhaus (MBA 1994) and her staff less than 72 hours to totally revamp the business model for the nonprofit she runs, North Chicago Community Partners (NCCP),... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

relational aspects of blue-collar work are dwindling. How can positive communities among workers be enhanced while work becomes progressively more asocial? My Policies or Yours: Do OECD Agricultural Policies Affect Poverty in Developing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne