Populism - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Foreign investment introduced capital and provided jobs for people previously occupied in agriculture. At an aggregate level, capital intensity rose, productivity grew, and prosperity improved, and poverty levels dropped dramatically. With close to half of the working... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

suggests a more complex approach that would involve pooling employee populations among consortiums of companies, presumably some growing rapidly (with low dependency ratios now but higher ones later) and some growing more slowly.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap

women—mostly Harvard undergrads—solved basic math problems for cash rewards. “While experimenting directly on executives in the field would yield interesting insights, starting in the laboratory with a student population provides a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

it has acquired Whole Foods, the market value of US big name retailers selling foods immediately drops 10 to 20 percent. The exchange of information and news, fake or fact, among large segments of the world’s population is controlled by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

explains. "They did not realize that less than 20 percent of the population in Vietnam live in the cities; the other 80 percent live in the countryside and are among the poorest people in the world." For Hoa, one of the most rewarding... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

documented as far back as the Egyptian dynasties. While the World Bank estimates that international bribery exceeds $1.5 trillion annually, the larger and more subtle effects of corruption on economies and populations is incalculable.... View Details

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

inclusion. I believe in the power of innovative and human-centered technology that can alleviate poverty by providing vulnerable populations with access to financial services including insurance, savings, or lending that can be life... View Details

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

building an inclusive healthcare infrastructure, since 70% of the country’s population resides in rural areas. Source: SELCO’s HBS Visit Briefing Booklet Remote locations and the lack of reliable energy often result in vaccine wastage,... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

more of an expert on indigenous populations than the people themselves. Keen says Walker was before his time in using his research to partner with, and help, the tribes he studied. “I said, ‘Corn? What are you talking about, Deward?’ And... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

26 Feb 2019
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

short video following Davis at work in Philadelphia Philadelphia—like so many other major cities—has experienced a dramatic increase in housing values. The 19146 ZIP code, about a mile and a half from City Hall, experienced a 404 percent increase in View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

civil disobedience. This really matters—as Erica Chenworth’s research has shown, no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5 percent of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating. How... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

Task Force

Tom Eisenmann; in it, she compared mobile money use in African countries with Latin America’s much slower adoption and discovered that while 85 percent of Mexico’s population owned a smartphone, only 30 percent had a bank account and 10... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

a back seat when it comes to solving international conflicts” Finally, Werker and Novosad compared the percentage of officials from each country to the percentage of that country's world population in order to determine the amount to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

along with the steamship and telegraph, also made possible the national distribution of products through an interconnected network of cities and towns. Singer Sewing Machines manufactured in New Jersey, for example, could now be shipped to California. The growth in... View Details

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

past two decades. As a result, the proportion of the US population that is foreign-born—to the extent we can count—has nearly tripled over the past 50 years to levels we last saw around 1900. There is one business “community” that has... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

for the ’Base of the Pyramid’ the two-thirds of the world’s population who live on less than two dollars a day,” he says. “The experience had opened my eyes to the power of applying business skills to socially beneficial outcomes while... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

health policy, reimbursement and payment models, population health and care quality, technology and data analytics, workflow improvements, management tactics and more . Look for targeted news in industries like Biotech, Health IT and... View Details

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

different culture and were engaged in positive (harmonious), neutral, or negative neutral interactions—six scenarios in all. After viewing the videos, participants were given details about two cultures—a Mongolian tribe called the Ewenki and a South American View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

and sellers to populate it," Hagiu notes. "On the other hand, if you operate as a reseller, you don't have the chicken-and-egg problem of populating a site with buyers and sellers. You just obtain the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

2018
Working Paper

Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy

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