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  • June 2023
  • Teaching Note

Connecting Students in Chattanooga (A) and (B)

By: Jan W. Rivkin
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 722-449 and 722-451. As this case opens, it is the spring of 2020 in Chattanooga. COVID-19 has hit, public schools have closed their buildings, remote learning has begun, and more than 28,000 schoolkids lack the high-quality Internet... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; Pandemic; COVID-19; Accessibility; Education; Urban Development; Wealth and Poverty; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Education Industry; Tennessee
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  • 06 Jun 2012
  • News

Fellowship Funder

Mencoff: A commitment to meritocracy as a core American value. Photo courtesy Samuel Mencoff “A cross between Walter Wriston and Davy Crockett” is how Sam Mencoff (MBA 1981) and his classmates used to affectionately describe HBS finance professor Hank Reiling. “That... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Faculty Books

anticrime policies have been lacking till now. Di Tella, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, and his coauthors address these topics and others, including the impact of mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons, and the relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • March 2021 (Revised November 2022)
  • Case

Blue Meridian Partners (A): Scaling for Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
In 2018, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation in a bold move transferred all its assets to a fund pooled with other General Partners and Limited Partners, called Blue Meridian Partners, to focus substantial long range investments in a few carefully chosen nonprofits.The... View Details
Keywords: Venture Philanthropy; Scaling; COVID-19 Pandemic; Social Justice; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Venture Capital; Business Model; Social Issues; Poverty; Values and Beliefs; Decisions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Investment Portfolio
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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

State of the Unions

A McDonald’s employee takes part in a March protest calling for unionization and higher minimum wages for fast-food workers. (© David Eulitt/TNS/ZUMA Wire) In May, thousands of McDonald’s employees swarmed the company’s Oak Brook, Illinois, headquarters to let their... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; McDonald's; Walmart
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Addressing The Financial Security Gap

percent of Americans have no retirement savings, and that by 2030, some 72 million American retirees will be living below the poverty line. “The pandemic has shown just how unstable things can be, how quickly it can happen, and how we... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992

fanatical,” he recalls. “All I thought about was enabling young people to go from poverty to a professional career in one year.” Upon graduation, he moved to London, the hometown of his new wife, Kate, where he ran marketing for a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

with increasing rivalry and change and one that will be characterized by continued downward pressure on advertising rates. As Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon once said, "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." "That has... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • News

Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

highest-grossing box office films, The Wedding Party and The Wedding Party 2. Clara Chow, Founder and Chair of Board, Generation Enterprise (GEN), was honored with the HBSAN Leadership Award for Social Impact. GEN’s mission is to tackle the skills gap that traps young... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Profile

Paul Wang

work with the MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). “They’re a group of economists who use randomized evaluation methodologies, similar to those used in pharmaceutical trials, to assess the impact of development projects,”... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

skills, she notes, she is thankful for every day. As a senior executive, Marshall works to balance -- and satisfy -- the needs of her shareholders, customers, and employees. Her work with CARE often gives her a firsthand view of poverty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • News

Why We Should Teach Entrepreneurship to Disadvantaged Students

Keywords: entrepreneurship; Nonprofit; disadvantaged youth; income disparity
  • 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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  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Contributing to a Better Future

Illustration by Dana Smith Debora Spar In preparation for the official launch of HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) in October, the School drew upon the findings of the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer survey to understand how people... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)

Above: photo by JJ Sulin My senior year of high school, I got a job as a teacher’s aide at an inner-city school in Hartford, Connecticut. I saw firsthand the difference between the education I was getting five miles away and the education those kids were getting. It... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • News

Income Inequality as a Sustainability Issue

Keywords: income inequality; sustainability
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is people's disproportionate disposition to help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Mathematical Methods; Attitudes; Interests; Perception; Wealth and Poverty
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  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Courting the Poor

A BETTER MOUSETRAP: At a Magazine Luiza virtual showroom, sales staff use computers to help customers make their purchases. Photo COURTESY MAGAZINE LUIZA The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For HBS associate professor Frances X. Frei, the time and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; department stores; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S1064-4857_2014_0000016007   Working Papers Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Petia B. Topalova Abstract—Does View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

idea — to provide quality, low-cost seed and planting expertise to needy communities worldwide — was even viable. He need not have worried. Today SPI supports dozens of organizations in more than forty countries where poverty is a major... View Details