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  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

beings grappled with and overcame material hardship, organized their political and economic communities, won great wealth and lost it, conquered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

that a sizable decline in mortgage payments (up to 50%) induces a significant increase in car purchases (up to 35%). This effect is attenuated by voluntary deleveraging. Borrowers with lower incomes and housing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

market participants on key characteristics and significantly increase their equity exposures over the sample period. The introduction of retail structured products thereby raises both the likelihood and the... View Details
  • Web

Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

students to become effective agents of change in their communities and beyond. The faculty are both experienced social entrepreneurs and systems change agents, who bring a View Details
  • May 2009
  • Teaching Note

The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Eric D. Werker
Teaching Note for [709024] and [709052]. View Details
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Nutrition; Food; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Poverty
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  • 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
  • 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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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • News

Sailing lessons give disabled children and adults greater life skills

A freak accident at age 21 left Paul Callahan (MBA 1992) a quadriplegic. It was a moment that led him, ultimately, to cast off from a career in wealth management at Goldman Sachs to take the helm of Sail to Prevail, a nonprofit that helps... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2019
  • Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

superiority or inferiority of a given race (Gannon, 2016; Goodman, 2003; Kolbert, 2017), the color line persists as an enduring social issue in the United States. Over 150 years post-emancipation, the wealth gap between blacks View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

    Rowan Clarke

    Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School in the Strategy Unit. He researches entrepreneurship and technology/AI for economic development and social impact. His work assists small business entrepreneurs, and high-growth technology... View Details

    Keywords: energy; financial services; green technology; retail financial services; microfinance; management consulting; high technology
    • 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
    • 2012
    • Chapter

    Inflection Point: New Vision, New Strategy, New Organization

    By: Nancy O. Andrews and Nicolas P. Retsinas
    What does it cost to build a great society? More pointedly, what does it cost to lose a great society? Since the War on Poverty began almost 50 years ago, investments in America’s communities have spurred those questions. Today we face a society more unequal than... View Details
    Keywords: Income Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Income; Residency; Poverty
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    • 07 Dec 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

    firsthand how swiftly places such as Chicago, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, were growing. In these and other cities, he could observe the effects of accelerating industrialization: the emergence of new... View Details
    Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

    utilizes their MBA skills to bring significant value and capacity to both the business and its community. Leading into his first year at HBS, McClain was a Summer Fellow with the Harlem Children’s Zone, an... View Details
    • December 2022 (Revised June 2023)
    • Case

    KKR at CHI Overhead Doors (A)

    By: Dennis Campbell and Ethan Rouen
    This case examines the decision by private equity firm KKR to grant equity to every employee at portfolio company CHI Overhead Doors upon purchasing the company in 2015. The case explores whether this initiative will create shared value, growing profits through better... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Improvement; Profit Sharing; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture
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    • 2020
    • Book

    Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

    By: Rebecca Henderson
    Free market capitalism is one of humanity’s greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top.... View Details
    Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Society; Environmental Sustainability
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    • 09 Aug 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

    society—from healthcare to homebuying. In the wake of Floyd's murder, five executives felt compelled to confront these disparities. They formed a new organization, OneTen, to confront two of the most profound inequities: access to education View Details
    Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
    • Web

    Vanity and Virtue: Allegories on the Pursuit of Riches - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    1608. 26 x 18.5 cm, image CF n1 This is a later state, with J. Razet's address. A woman sits beside a table laden with gold coins and other riches. She holds an urn with smoke rising out of it, a symbol of transience, View Details
    • 27 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

    We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50% of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

    guided the groundbreaking research ambitions of Polaroid—an iconic, 20th-century startup company whose pioneering achievements in optics and engineering continue to have profound technological, social, and... View Details