Publications

26 Aug 2010
News

Income Inequality and Financial Crises

Keywords: Prof. David Moss; income inequality; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

City Advantage In 1994, Porter founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit program to study and catalyze inner city business development. He and the group in ICIC define inner cities as urban areas with high poverty... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

the challenges of daily existence in an unfamiliar culture to the joys of helping people in poverty grow their own businesses. The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance by Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) (Harvard Business Review... View Details

January 2022
Case

VidyaGyan: Bridging the Rural Urban Divide

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Rachna Chawla, Kairavi Dey and Anjali Raina

Set up in 2008, VidyaGyan was a residential school for children in grades 6-12 from low-income rural families in Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It was the brainchild of Shiv Nadar and Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanian, who recognized the enormous potential hidden... View Details

Keywords: Non-profit; Education; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Wealth and Poverty; Demographics; Equality and Inequality; Performance Evaluation; Opportunities; Education Industry; South Asia; India

March 2005 (Revised April 2007)
Case

Oprah!

By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean

Oprah Winfrey believed in sharing the experiences that shaped her development and enabled her to become the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry and first African American billionaire. Traces her childhood and entertainment career, drawing connections in... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Wealth; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Biography; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

results. And there is more attention today than there was five years ago on building broader coalitions—"networked organizations"—that can work in a coordinated way to achieve system-level changes like the alleviation of poverty... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

01 Sep 2011
News

Water for Life

— water provision to the urban poor, water education, and environmental protection — that reflect the social issues we can address as a water and wastewater service provider. These programs were carefully planned so that they can help us attain the water infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a challenging hike, and we got really... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

research looking at poverty alleviation through foreign aid, and I wanted to further this research within the countries themselves," he says. In Liberia, he met with Sirleaf and her economic advisors, who discussed the pressures to... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

September 1992
Case

Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market

By: William A. Sahlman

First case in a series of six cases that follow the experience of a cable television company as it adjusts to the rapid rise and precipitous decline of the stock market in the late 1980s. In this case Don Jones, the company's founder and owner, sees the rise in public... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Financial Markets; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Wealth; Business Cycles; Entertainment and Recreation Industry