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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Harvard prof shares ways to lift inner-city economies
- 13 May 2011
- News
Rebuilding America's inner cities
- 31 Aug 2004
- News
More companies tap location, location, location of inner cities
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
The Microwork Solution
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Want to Foster Prosperity? Focus on Market-creating Innovations
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Africa rising? A historical perspective
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
The Role of Business in Collective Impact
- 27 May 2015
- News
When poor people can’t get on due to lack of public transport
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
success alone. In a country where one-third of the population lives beneath the poverty line, he is an advocate of political and economic reform and a champion of investing in the bottom of the business pyramid. "I believe business should... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve formed with the assistance of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jul 2023
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man offers food to the people in his community in need of a meal. He’s a community leader in the Robin Hood Army, a no-funds volunteer organization with a massive goal to end world hunger, community... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 May 2016
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993
passionate about giving back to society and is particularly interested in supporting women and children. She has served on UNICEF’s board of directors since 2005 and recently joined the board of the Robin Hood Foundation, an organization that fights View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
In a series of posts on LinkedIn, Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), co-chief investment officer and co-chairman of Bridgewater Associates, has written an extensive examination of modern capitalism. “I believe that all good things taken to an extreme can be self-destructive and... View Details
Keywords: capitalism
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
human beings have faced a litany of existential hurdles that individuals have struggled to overcome. The inability or unwillingness to address both the root causes and symptoms of poverty and inequality ranks among the greatest failures... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
Vicente Fox, who was then governor of the state of Guanajuato. “I didn’t want to abandon the business or my research, because both were important to me,” recalls Ramirez. After Fox’s historic victory last summer, Ramirez joined a team of six development and View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run a nonprofit that fights poverty through entrepreneurship, Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is just the person you’d want. That was the opinion of Cindy Ko (MBA 2005) in 2013 when she was... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... View Details