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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • Web

Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

institutional structures outmoded, thereby creating both opportunities and risks for firms and households. Representative cases include Margaret Thatcher and the Blair 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
  • 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

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
  • December 2012
  • Article

Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965

By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak institutions, or ethnic heterogeneity. But has African poverty been a persistent historical... View Details
Keywords: Living Standards; Real Wages; Labor Market; Colonial Institutions; Economic Growth; Wages; History; Africa
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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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  • 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

    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
    • 16 Oct 2013
    • Op-Ed

    Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

    future. Many things have happened that I would never have thought possible. I would have never believed that Chinese social choices around urbanization and industrialization could lift hundreds of millions out of View Details
    Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
    • 29 Jan 2014
    • News

    Inequality: Capitalism's 'Squeaky Wheel'

    • March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
    • Case

    Inequality in Brazil

    By: Aldo Musacchio
    This case examines the evolution of inequality in Brazil in the last few years and generates two debates. First, the case discusses inequality and whether it is a problem or not for capitalist societies, in this case Brazil. Second, the case discusses some of the... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Brazil
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    • 01 Apr 2021
    • Blog Post

    An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

    company’s most accomplished subject matter experts. “I was by far the youngest person on the team. It was reminiscent of my time at NASA, where I felt like a little fish in a big pond, but I just soaked up everything,” she said. “They had all built up this View Details