poverty - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

book. It is a question that brought together a diverse and talented group of researchers interested in change and organizations in different problem domains (sustainability, healthcare, poverty alleviation, and education). The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

partnership in rural northern Minnesota between 14 different organizations, which worked together through an advisory board, governing board, and leadership team in order to deliver coordinated early childhood services to young children living in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209138 Fighting Malnutrition and Hunger in the Developing World Harvard Business School Note 909-406 The millennium objectives of reducing poverty and malnutrition are not being... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

experiencing slowdowns, investors, entrepreneurs, and multinationals are looking elsewhere. They’ve been eyeing frontier economies such as Nigeria and Pakistan with great interest—and enormous trepidation. Can one find serious growth opportunities amid extreme View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

industry also grew as the means out of poverty for many women who worked as sales consultants and in salons. Winning beauty contests became the equivalent to winning a lottery. In this respect, the impact of the beauty industry was... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

microfinance provider in Bangalore, wants to grow his business rapidly and become financially sustainable, but he's struggling with staff fraud, high costs, and how to stay true to Ujjivan's mission of poverty alleviation, while... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Responsible Mining. Assessment of four necessary conditions for SDG contributions (goal alignment, rule strength, uptake patterns, indirect effects) suggest weak contributions to date. First, only the weakest versions of standards are being adopted, and only by miners... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

September 2023
Teaching Note

Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-057. Patagonia’s change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order to use the company’s profit to fight the environmental crisis and be a model for future businesses. View Details