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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Social Protection and Social Distancing During the Pandemic: Mobile Money Transfers in Ghana

By: Dean Karlan, Matt Lowe, Robert Osei, Isaac Osei-Akoto, Benjamin N. Roth and Christopher Udry
We study the impact of mobile money transfers to a representative sample of low-income Ghanaians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement of the upcoming transfers affects neither consumption, well-being, nor social distancing. Once disbursed,... View Details
Keywords: Social Distancing; Social Welfare; Economic Relief; Health Pandemics; Poverty
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

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

    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
    • 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
    • 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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    • 03 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

    ineffective, and despite a wealth of prescriptive literature, these processes often fail to lead to employee motivation or improvement. We propose that these feedback processes are often ineffective because... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 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
    • 16 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

    with a company and its products. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53707 January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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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    • 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
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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

    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
    • 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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    • 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
    • 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
    • 16 Oct 2013
    • Op-Ed

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

    With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
    Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities