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- 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
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
expanded Medicaid coverage for nearly all low-income individuals with incomes at or below 138 percent of the poverty line, and almost half of the previously uninsured individuals who gained coverage under Obamacare received it through... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
2013, less than 10 percent of US public school students—about 4 million kids—had sufficient broadband to use technology in the classroom. “It was a widespread problem that wasn’t really limited to one demographic,” Marwell says. “Even when you looked at things like the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
poverty for some 10,000 young people—and counting. Chertavian visiting a Year Up grad at HBS Chertavian visiting a Year Up grad at HBS Chertavian playing ping pong with one of his three children Chertavian playing ping pong with one of... View Details
- October 2019
- Teaching Note
Granite Equity Partners
By: Victoria Ivashina and Terrence Shu
This teaching note accompanies HBS case 219-040, “Granite Equity Partners,” which follows the private equity firm as it evaluates the potential acquisition of Tyrell Corp., a Minnesota-based quality control biomaterials company. Granite Equity’s fund was different from... View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave
By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Wealth and Poverty; Selection and Staffing; Crime and Corruption; Income; Leading Change; Information Management; Argentina
Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave." Chap. 5 in The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America, edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky, 175–204. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- 2008
- Working Paper
Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship
By: Ramana Nanda
This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous changes in the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Cost; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Human Capital; Wealth; Denmark
Nanda, Ramana. "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-047, January 2008.
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
Illustration by Shutterstock I've always loved boats. When I was just a few years old, my grandfather set me up in a small sailing dinghy and sent me on my way. I have no recollection of the instruction that must have come before, but the exhilaration that came from... View Details
- October 2010 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Bessemer Trust: Guardians of Capital
By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
Henry Phipps, Jr. made his fortune in the steel industry alongside one of America's most celebrated entrepreneurs—Andrew Carnegie. His wealth was administered in the form of trusts, which he hoped would provide a stream of income for his family and their descendants... View Details
Keywords: Wealth; Asset Management; Family Business; Business History; Income; Entrepreneurship; Capital; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Bessemer Trust: Guardians of Capital." Harvard Business School Case 811-031, October 2010. (Revised June 2021.)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
Dear alumni and friends, We celebrated the opening of Klarman Hall on October 1 and used the occasion to spark discussion and spur thinking on important issues of the day. Beth and Seth (MBA 1982) Klarman, in providing the gift for this remarkable new building, had... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students worked at this summer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
water. But at the end of the day, it starts with governments implementing the correct policies, not just regarding water reform, but in matters such as poverty alleviation, environmental regulations, and so forth. We need to focus on the... View Details
- 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
- 19 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
balance between financial and social returns – ensuring strong financial performance that maintains their AAA-rating and a low cost of capital, but also fulfilling the World Bank Group’s mandate of poverty elimination. The IFC will truly... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Nairobi Love: Heading Home
In my early 20’s, I was really struggling to reconcile my public sector heart and private sector mind: how do ~40% of Kenyans live in poverty despite some of the highest literacy rates on the continent, an increasing cadre of highly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
equity. Firmly established in the business world, in the late 1980s, Tierney set out to find a way to fight poverty in Latin America and Africa. “I had been involved in various efforts since my Peace Corps days, but I knew it was time to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
central planning tool for the project and guides the early development of the project. Research on financial distribution channels for Enterprise solutions to Poverty Spring 2014 | Focus: Financial Inclusion for Latin America Team: Jorge... View Details
- September 2018
- Teaching Note
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
This teaching note assists in the classroom instruction of the HBS No. 318-089, “City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact.” It offers to instructors a case summary and analysis, along with student preparation questions and a guide for classroom discussion of the case.... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; Education Entrepreneurship; Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
- March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)