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  • May 13, 2021
  • Article

The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership

By: Thomas Dudley and Ethan Rouen
Wealth inequality in the U.S. has been increasing for decades: The richest 1% own a majority of all business wealth, and the top 10% own more than 90%. Companies, which have played a vital role in the growth in inequality can also play one in reducing it. One place to... View Details
Keywords: Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Employee Ownership; United States
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    Africa Rising: A Historical Perspective

    Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent economic boom has raised hopes and expectations to lift the regions’ ‘bottom millions’ out of poverty by 2030. How realistic is that goal? We approach this question by comparing the experiences of three front-runners of region-specific... View Details

    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

    By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
    Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of the world's population... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Early Childhood Education; Government and Politics; Wealth and Poverty; China; India; Russia; Brazil
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      Ela Bhatt

      Keywords: Microfinance
      • 15 Mar 2019
      • Blog Post

      PART 3: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Getting on the JD/MBA Path

      requirements and need the same quality of experiences. There is a wealth of information out there about the application process. I don’t have many golden nuggets to add, except to say that by thinking long... View Details
      • 27 Aug 2018
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur

      become staples of our modern country and economy: beauty products, national sales forces, and corporate social responsibility. Who Owns Space? Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • Video

      Naguib Sawiris

      Naguib Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom TMT Investments, details the establishment of the Sawiris Foundation for Social Development in 2001 which aims to combat poverty in Egypt through education, job creation and training in fields such as nursing. View Details
      • 07 Jun 2014
      • Video

      Aamir Rehman - Making A Difference

      • 13 Dec 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      Improving Public Health for the Poor

      course with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan on business serving the so-called "base of the pyramid" sector. Chu says microfinance is one of the few effective responses to poverty that he is aware of, View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
      • 25 Apr 2014
      • Video

      Margaret Preston - Making A Difference

      • May 2024
      • Article

      Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis

      By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu and Rowan P. Clarke
      A significant proportion of the world's population has no access to grid-based electricity and so relies on off-grid lighting solutions. Rechargeable lamp technology is gaining popularity as an alternative off-grid lighting model in developing countries. In this paper,... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Behavior; Poverty; Logistics; Business Model; Utilities Industry
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      • September 2002 (Revised February 2012)
      • Background Note

      Europe: Data Supplement, 1950-2011

      By: Huw Pill, Lakshmi Iyer, Marie-Laure Goepfer and Ingrid Vogel
      Supplements The Blair Wealth Project: Antecedents and Prospects, Renewing Germany: Kohl's Legacy and Schroder's Dilemma, Italy: A New Commitment to Growth, and The Netherlands: Is the Polder Model Sinking? View Details
      Keywords: Data and Data Sets; United Kingdom; Germany; Italy; Netherlands
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      • November 2017
      • Case

      iRobot: Moving Beyond the Roomba

      By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
      The makers of the Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner, connected the latest version of their product to the Internet. This new feature opened up a wealth of new opportunities and challenges for the company. View Details
      Keywords: Irobot; Smart Home; Connected Home; Roomba; Vacuum; Mapping; Internet Of Things; Connected Products; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      • April 1992
      • Case

      Malaysia (A)

      By: Bruce R. Scott
      Riots in 1969 bring martial law and a new, more firmly Malay government which sets out to promote redistribution of opportunity, income, and wealth by race-based quotas. Dr. Mahatherl, a Malay nationalist says Malays have a non-competitive alliance which must be forced... View Details
      Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Change Management; Race; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence; Malaysia
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      • 30 Jul 2008
      • Op-Ed

      Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

      Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors, particularly sovereign View Details
      Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
      • Web

      Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

      40 In addition to adopting modern managerial and financial systems, the Chinese compradors played a significant role in the early industrialization of the country by investing their wealth in modern business... View Details
      • September 2003 (Revised May 2004)
      • Case

      New Partnership for Africa's Development, The

      By: Laura Alfaro, Debora L. Spar and Cate Reavis
      In a world context of international institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund and their interaction with developing countries, this case looks at an African development initiative to address its own problems: The New Economic... View Details
      Keywords: Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; International Finance; Investment; Poverty; Africa
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      • 23 Apr 2019
      • Video

      Totodi Technologies Final Pitch New Venture Competition 2019 Alumni Track

      • 01 Apr 1996
      • News

      Stewards of the Seventh Generation

      concerned about the environment." In the Third World, where the twin pressures of widespread poverty and explosive population growth often overwhelm environmental protection efforts, sustainable development... View Details
      Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
      • Web

      The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      subsidiaries around the country that reported back to the New York office. 18 Personnel working in public relations could consult a wealth of literature by nationally known experts. They included Ivy Lee, considered the father of modern... View Details