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14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

power, they nationalized all our assets. To date, they have not given them back. We fretted for 10 years. However, we felt that the loss is ours as we are losing the business of 70 million people—equal to the population of Kenya and View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

01 Jun 2010
News

Students Serve as Consultants

Twelve HBS students spent their January Term as volunteer consultants to USAID projects in Bangladesh, Jordan, Morocco and Uganda. Only in its second year, the student-led Global Impact Experience program, the brainchild of Rich Chung (MBA ’10), screened more than 100... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

and exchange rate crises in Argentina; and Uganda and the Washington Consensus. The second module ("Competing Institutional Models") studies how the U.S. and other rich countries have developed institutional structures permitting the... View Details

2013
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Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal

By: Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Justine Burns, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James and Michael I. Norton

This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: Human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study 1, survey data from 136 countries were examined... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Psychological Universal; Prosocial Behavior; Well-being; Happiness; Spending; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Canada; Uganda; South Africa; India

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02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

part time. ”I have now been to 10 countries in Africa in three years, and often times feel more comfortable here than I do in my other home, the USA.” With the acquisition of two universities (Cavendish in Uganda and Zambia) and a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

implants and procedures. Refugee Camp Economies Author:Eric D. Werker Periodical:Journal of Refugee Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper describes the economy of a refugee camp. Key distortions to the economy of Kyangwali Refugee Settlement in View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

around the new strategy, using proven tools such as a co-created strategy map. These principles are informed by the authors’ experience with several successful inclusive-growth projects. An initiative in Uganda is bringing small maize... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2025
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Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle

By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli

In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details

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17 Dec 2017
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How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

the most important way we can combat that? Heaney: One of the things that has struck me from the very beginning with the project was watching these women in Uganda use that song to call back the child soldiers. My co-founder, Anna... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Making Change

Ministry of Health to test new policies to improve infant HIV testing. Similar initiatives are under way in Uganda and Cambodia. We are a fee-for-service nonprofit and have received start-up support from the Echoing Green and Rainer... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

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as their economic and political consequences. Representative cases include the Mexico Tequila crisis of 1994-95; Populism, banking crises, and exchange rate crises in Argentina; and Uganda and the Washington Consensus. The second module... View Details

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