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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and coworker composition for all weavers in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
many products and offer countless tips on how to lower your carbon footprint every day. Julia Austin (@austinfish) is an executive fellow at the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and a former senior lecturer. Jeffrey Bussgang: Civil rights... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
have built national or global organizations that have achieved social impact. This focus on success stories has led to a skewed view of social entrepreneurship as nothing more or less than a field of huge, realized dreams. “A big weakness... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
uses the Mexican coffee economy to show how rural landholders and workers had a surprisingly large influence on foreign—and state—driven modernization projects, and how small plantations outlasted large ones in the Soconusco. "It's a... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
she worked on Moroccan agricultural policy with a team of consultants. "I was just an intern," Ashraf says, "but as I looked around the boardroom I realized that not one of these people had ever actually talked to a farmer in Morocco. And yet they were designing a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
difference-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. For the organized portion of the manufacturing sector, we find that GQ led to improvements in both urban and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
sustainability reports. We conclude with thoughts about mandatory sustainability and integrated reporting. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-100.pdf With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Passion for another kind of far-reaching change was the driving force behind Diagnostics For All (DFA), a nonprofit offering a low-cost, point-of-care diagnostic tool that won top honors in the 2008 social venture track in addition to snagging the top prize in the MIT... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
themselves to understanding the needs of less-affluent customers and using this knowledge to devise creative solutions to customer problems. Employees of China's Haier, for example, discovered through visiting rural customers that they... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
people,” Koning suggests. While the study only looked at women, the findings could apply to any group that is underrepresented in test audiences for tech, he adds, including people of color and rural consumers. Some venture firms have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
institutions, added Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli (HBS MBA '99). A director of the Fate Foundation Nigeria and Fate Foundation U.S.A., two nonprofits that try to promote entrepreneurship in Nigeria, Nwuneli said, "A company can, instead of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active exchange between historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
training, and marketing services. “Since 2010, we have more than doubled the yields and incomes of tens of thousands of smallholders and are on track to serve 1 million farmers by 2025,” Masha reported. Babban Gona specifically attracts View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can... View Details
- January 2023
- Case
Baofeng's Philanthropic Efforts in China
By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Bo Li and Zhaoheng Gong
Yanbao Dang, President of Baofeng Group and founder of the Yanbao Foundation, Baofeng Group’s philanthropic arm, weighed how the family nonprofit could maximize its impact. On a mission to eliminating poverty through broadening access to educational opportunities in... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and opportunity gaps between urban and View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsFemale Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Harvard Business School Note 807-018 Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
start-up that provides clean drinking water to more than 64,000 rural villagers in India. The company uses a franchise model in which local entrepreneurs filter and sell water to members of their community. "In India, 87 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel