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  • 27 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

Work, with Oriana Bandiera of the London School of Economics and Andrea Prat of Columbia University. "On the one hand, it stands to reason that they should be super-motivated to work hard because whatever they do for the company adds to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen and Joshua D. Coval of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

Propel

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Food Stamps; EBT; Mobile App; User Research; Financial Services Referrals; Grocery Marketing; Customer Discovery; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Business Model; Research; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Welfare; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; United States
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  • April 2010
  • Case

Manchester Bidwell Corporation: the Replication Question

By: Toby E. Stuart, G. Felda Hardymon, James L. Heskett and Ann Leamon
Bill Strickland, CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation, must decide the best way to replicate his innovative, award-winning approach to curing poverty. Manchester Bidwell's approach, which provides both adult job-training tuned to fill the needs of local industries and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Training; Competency and Skills; Jobs and Positions; Human Resources
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  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

company. The company specialized in providing its clients with software used for transaction processing and risk management in various commodity markets. Triple Point Technology had grown substantially in its 13 years of existence View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2007 (Revised February 2018)
  • Case

Brazil Under Lula: Off the Yellow BRIC Road

By: Aldo Musacchio
Covers President Lula's challenges to reduce "Brazil cost" and grow like other BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Experts agreed that for Brazil to grow like other BRIC countries, the Brazilian government would have to reduce the cost of doing business... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Cost; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; China; India; Russia; Brazil
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  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about the Bitcoin system itself. This article presents the platform's design principles and properties for a non-technical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-015.pdf Naiveté and Cynicism in Negotiations and Other Competitive Contexts Authors:Chia-Jung Tsay, Lisa L. Shu, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

largest shareholder, Khazanah Nacional, the sovereign wealth fund, is tasked with helping to grow the Malaysian economy. Should Khazanah encourage job and route cuts at MAS, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

business leaders. These include pollution and climate change, poverty and income inequality, obesity and public health, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Article

Putting Patients First: Social Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

By: Zoe Chance and Rohit Deshpandé
It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world's poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first part of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Health Care and Treatment; Social Marketing; Perspective; Customer Focus and Relationships; Profit; Africa; Asia; South America
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  • August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Teaching Note

Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (TN)

By: Lakshmi Iyer and John D. Macomber
Teaching Note for [710004]. View Details
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Asia
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  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

increasing disposal cost decreases the amount of waste generated and, of the waste generated, more is converted into by-product. By-product synergy also shifts wealth from the primary market to the by-product market as disposal cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

While net worth is on the rise for most Americans, the picture is only getting dimmer for the country's poorest families: For the 11.3 percent of Americans living below the poverty line in 2000, wealth (in... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 19 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 19

between two broad, general varieties of state capitalism: one through majority control of publicly traded companies (e.g., state-controlled SOEs) and a hybrid form that relies on minority investments in companies by development banks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

misvaluation for a firm's borrowing and investment decisions. Using an ex-post measure of the accuracy of credit ratings to capture debt market misvaluation, we find evidence that firms take advantage of inaccuracies by issuing more debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

entertainment industry really works-and how to navigate today's high-stakes business world at large. Publisher's link: http://www.blockbusters-thebook.com/ 2006 Journal of Economic Perspectives The Investment Strategies of Sovereign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

forthcoming American Political Science Review Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

analysis, which I apply to a wealth of data, I show how changes in product, organizational, and community identities associated with a legacy technology can be reconstituted to reconfigure a field. My... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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