Wealth And Poverty - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

U.S. companies were completely different, marked by the pioneering spirit and sense of limitless opportunity that pervaded American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The United... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

with the briefest of utterances. But it wasn’t always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the Arabian desert. From his first... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

culture, technology, and economy to coevolve in unison under the rubric of an integral polity. Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family’s Wealth by Douglas P. McCormick (MBA 1997)... View Details

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

Help the Black Community. And in this episode of Skydeck, Rogers and I talk about the makings of America's racial wealth gap, why he thinks it is a root cause of the nation's... View Details

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

descent into violence. For Nepal, these factors for study included poverty, social and language diversity, and even geographical conditions. What Iyer and Do found: View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of... View Details

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

would continue to undergo significant growth and change in the years to come. For entrepreneurs looking to get in on the ground level, the industry offers a wealth of opportunity. View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

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... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

exceptionally favorable factors in France such as its wealth of assets, human capital, and the French brand. And the disadvantages of the system (the burdens of administration,... View Details

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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog

tail risk hedging, futures and swaps, etc.). Students also explore investing from the asset owner perspective, learning modern practices in portfolio construction for personal and institutional investors... View Details

29 Jan 2019
News

Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

highest-grossing box office films, The Wedding Party and The Wedding Party 2. Clara Chow, Founder and Chair of Board, Generation Enterprise (GEN), was honored with the HBSAN Leadership Award for Social... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog

Second Treatise ; Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations , and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto ) and the capitalist state (F.A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom , Milton Friedman’s Capitalism... View Details

29 May 2019
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Bloomberg: Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government

In his address to HBS graduates at this year’s Class Day, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) spoke about the degeneration of American political culture and the challenge it poses. “Now, the good news is: There is a solution,” he told the crowd,... View Details

2007
Book

Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero and Brooke Barton

Keywords: Poverty; Society; Economics; Value

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10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

the bigger the vision, the greater number of things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise, Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade

of privilege. He eventually amassed his own fortune as well, and his wealth hovered at $26 million, making him not only one of the richest hong merchants, but also among the richest men in the world. Other... View Details

10 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative aims to educate, support, and inspire leaders to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. We are committed to the fight for racial justice... View Details

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

inclusion. I believe in the power of innovative and human-centered technology that can alleviate poverty by providing vulnerable populations with access to financial services including insurance, savings, or... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

on a problem." The burst of entrepreneurial activity that occurred throughout the 1990s has also stimulated innovation in the social sector, she notes, and unprecedented wealth creation has forced people to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 1999
News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

with increasing rivalry and change and one that will be characterized by continued downward pressure on advertising rates. As Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon once said, "A View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

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