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  • September 2003
  • Case

Nelson Mandela, Turnaround Leader

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Euvin Naidoo
Nelson Mandela was the first democratically elected president of South Africa. He had to shift the culture of a country after the end of the apartheid regime, which enforced separation of the races and stifled freedom of the press. He established more open dialogue,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Government and Politics; Governance; Policy; Political Elections; Culture; Communication Intention and Meaning; Relationships; Leadership Style; Welfare; South Africa
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Euvin Naidoo. "Nelson Mandela, Turnaround Leader." Harvard Business School Case 304-035, September 2003.
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

discriminate, and that piracy may even result in higher profits to Microsoft! Finally, the paper investigates the societal welfare consequences of OSS availability by comparing different industry structures (monopoly and duopoly). We find... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • March 2007 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Kerry Herman
Deals with approaches to alleviating poverty and how firms, governments, and NGOs are able to work together to accomplish these goals. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Nutrition; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare
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Goldberg, Ray A., and Kerry Herman. "Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition." Harvard Business School Case 907-409, March 2007. (Revised October 2007.)
  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

track how that cost structure changes due to the nonprofit's intervention. "If employees go off welfare and start earning wages and paying taxes, there's an inverse relationship. They end up contributing to society," he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author:Hanna W. Halaburda Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the causes and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

region are starting to pull back from their welfare state philosophies and encourage the privatization of the economies. These are gradual changes. The governments are trying to minimize social disruptions. But the broad implication is... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Behavioral Household Finance

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
This chapter provides an overview of household finance. The first part summarizes key facts regarding household financial behavior, emphasizing empirical regularities that are inconsistent with the standard classical economic model and discussing extensions of the... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Global Range; Household; Behavior; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Design; Welfare
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Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Behavioral Household Finance." In Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Applications 1, edited by B. Douglas Bernheim, Stefano DellaVigna, and David Laibson, 177–276. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2018.
  • March 2007 (Revised December 2007)
  • Background Note

Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Laura Winig and Kerry Herman
Provides successful models of private-public sector cooperatives in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare
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Goldberg, Ray A., Laura Winig, and Kerry Herman. "Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models." Harvard Business School Background Note 907-412, March 2007. (Revised December 2007.)
  • 19 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

colleagues investigate two types of trust: cognitive trust, which is based on confidence in a partner's technical competency, and affective trust, which is based on a shared concern for a partner's welfare and personal interests.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Dec 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

and importing unskilled workers to keep costs low takes away the initiative for technological advances ." And Sam Heffner, invoking the noted economist, Milton Friedman, pointed out that "before he died, the great Dr. Friedman acknowledged that in a (more or... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

welfare enhancing. In this case, the net cost of both contracting directly on an aggregate measure and exploiting career incentives based on disaggregated measures is smaller than the cost of contracting directly on disaggregate measures.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

pollution, the redevelopment promises enormous health and social welfare improvements by providing sanitation, safe drinking water, and basic services to Dharavi's residents. Realizing these benefits will depend on first rate design that... View Details
Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

Economic growth rates are much more stable and social welfare much higher under inclusive regimes: societies in which the free market is balanced by a democratically elected, capable government and a strong civil society. How can business... View Details
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the local industrial plant also affected the social and economic welfare of the wider community. Documenting the Wartime Effort Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences Labor Practices: Footnotes 31 United States Steel Corporation,... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 06 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
  • October 1998 (Revised December 1999)
  • Case

Gene Research, the Mapping of Life and the Global Economy

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Juan Enriquez-Cabot
A new firm is being created to speed up the process of mapping humans, animals, and plants by combining gene technology with rapid gene identification to improve the health and well being of the human population and the productivity of crops and animals. How does one... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Business Processes; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Productivity; Welfare; Agribusiness; Genetics; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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Goldberg, Ray A., and Juan Enriquez-Cabot. "Gene Research, the Mapping of Life and the Global Economy." Harvard Business School Case 599-016, October 1998. (Revised December 1999.)
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2007 (Revised June 2007)
  • Case

Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (A)

By: Laura Alfaro, Eric D. Werker and Renee Kim
At the 2005 Group of Eight summit, world leaders agreed to relieve the world's poorest countries' debt burdens and double aid to Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; International Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Poverty; Welfare; Africa
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  • 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007

addressed by recent studies. They argue that business groups are responses to different economic conditions and that, from a welfare standpoint, they can sometimes be "paragons" and, at other times, "parasites." The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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