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  • Other Unpublished Work

Notes on the Impact of Wealth in Bargaining

By: Lucy White, Chen-Ying Huang and Alan Morrison
Keywords: Negotiation; Wealth
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  • June 2017
  • Case

MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid

By: Lynda M. Applegate, José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
In January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income... View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Wealth and Poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

From observers to active participants in the global economy

reduce poverty through economic growth, and it’s been very effective,” says Bloom. The US agency, now with an annual budget of about $900 million, has committed more than $10 billion to projects in developing countries that meet a variety... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Faculty Books

anticrime policies have been lacking till now. Di Tella, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, and his coauthors address these topics and others, including the impact of mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons, and the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • Profile

Rakhi Mehra

summer internship with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, "to look at innovative, sustainable ways to reduce poverty and meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for 2015." A subsequent direct meeting with... View Details
  • Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) is to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty i... Ten years on, HBS students revive the push for an MBA Oath Evan Kornbluh 04 May 2018 This year’s graduating MBA class will re-enter the work force ten... View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Employee Ownership and Wealth Inequality: A Path to Reducing Wealth Concentration

By: Thomas Dudley and Ethan Rouen
This paper examines the impact of an economy-wide shift to broad-based employee ownership on wealth concentration in the United States. Relying on government data, we show that if all private firms became 30% employee-owned, the wealth distribution would be profoundly... View Details
Keywords: Wealth Inequality; Employee Ownership; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Analysis; United States
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  • 22 Sep 2014
  • News

Why We Should Teach Entrepreneurship to Disadvantaged Students

Keywords: entrepreneurship; Nonprofit; disadvantaged youth; income disparity
  • Profile

Paul Wang

work with the MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). “They’re a group of economists who use randomized evaluation methodologies, similar to those used in pharmaceutical trials, to assess the impact of development projects,”... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

skills, she notes, she is thankful for every day. As a senior executive, Marshall works to balance -- and satisfy -- the needs of her shareholders, customers, and employees. Her work with CARE often gives her a firsthand view of poverty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Business Solutions for the Poor (Global and Local) - Course Catalog

businesses and nonprofits in serving the poor. The course will attempt to address both U.S. as well as global poverty and examine the multiple ways in which business approaches could and should participate in serving the poor. Throughout... View Details
  • 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

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
  • 15 Mar 2019
  • News

JP Morgan Chase Opens New Office in Dublin

Keywords: JP Morgan Chase; Brexit; politics; financial regulation; financial crisis
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

idea — to provide quality, low-cost seed and planting expertise to needy communities worldwide — was even viable. He need not have worried. Today SPI supports dozens of organizations in more than forty countries where poverty is a major... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2013
  • News

Your Guide to Social Enterprise

with that organization. She spent two years there, before becoming a consultant to the Fund and then to a number of other nonprofit organizations. During that time, Keohane also began a seminar at Yale on poverty and anti-poverty policy.... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 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
  • 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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  • Profile

Tafadzwa Samushonga

investigate market-based approaches to eradicating poverty during her career at the Monitor Group (later acquired by Deloitte). “I did not join Monitor with social enterprise in mind, but as we used the tools and analytical approaches of... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
  • Student-Profile

Rowan Clarke

Rowan Clarke (he/him) began his academic career at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where he earned both a bachelor’s and master’s in economics. While working on the latter degree, he started to win research grants and connected with Innovations for View Details