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Curriculum - Case Method Project

Alabama on March 9, 1965. Coverage: 1865 – 1965; racial segregation; Jim Crow; black disenfranchisement; poll taxes; literacy tests; white primaries; grandfather clauses; NAACP; Plessy v. Ferguson; Brown v. Board of Education; Martin... View Details

10 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?

majority,” write the authors, who include Andrea Bernini from the University of Oxford as well as Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa, both from the University of Nottingham. County-by-county records compiled The Voting Rights Act outlawed View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Feb 2022
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Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

companies. While they agreed that leaders urgently needed to expand their knowledge, they didn’t see eye to eye on what digital literacy means. A few argued that leaders should understand data analytics and AI deeply, and even learn to... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

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About - Business & Environment

science more accessible, useful, and intuitive so that everyone on Earth can build their climate literacy and mindfully prepare for the consequences that climate change is likely to bring. Spencer earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Development (57) Leadership Style (56) Leadership (446) Leading Change (57) Learning (16) Legal Liability (12) Leveraged Buyouts (4) Life Cycle (1) Literacy (1) Local Range (1) Logistics (20) Loss (1) Luxury (12) Macroeconomics (10)... View Details

21 May 2024
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A New Chapter

Joe Wolf (MBA 1999), cofounder and co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, wants to provide educational opportunity where it is needed most. “In the next 30 years, half of the world’s youth will be sub-Saharan African,” says Wolf. “Right now, the World Bank reports that only one... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

refers to the process of reporting and communicating financial information. Accounting leverages past and present transactional data to determine a company's health, while finance is inherently forward-looking. Each can help you assess your firm's position and... View Details

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

Historical Data Visualization Historical Data & Sources All Records Data & Sources Adult Literacy Rates World Bank, World Development Indicators database Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook National Center of Education... View Details

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Historical Data Visualization - Business History

Politics & Economics Adult Literacy Rates Trends Over Time Corporations Apollo Hospitals Historical Maps Commodities Apples, Bananas, Oranges, and Dates (1907) Trends Over Time Corporations Arçelik Corporation (Koç Group) Trends Over Time... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Kiley Marlborough High School Marlborough, MA Subjects: College Prep/Honors U.S. History, AP/Honors Economics, Financial Literacy MA 84 of 159 Sara Knight Marlborough High School Marlborough, MA Subjects: College Prep/Honors U.S. History... View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

ways for using the theoretical foundations I already had. Carolina Ragolta MBA Student at Stanford Graduate School of Business Gain data literacy and hands-on practice interpreting data and implementing analyses in Excel. Professor... View Details

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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

Paltz High School New Paltz, NY MA Pat Kiley Marlborough High School Marlborough, MA Subjects: College Prep/Honors U.S. History, AP/Honors Economics, Financial Literacy CA Teresa Kim Vista Unified School District Vista, CA NJ Amethyst... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

model has developed, it has grown beyond financial incentives. The ultimate goal is to foster a stronger relationship between the workforce and management by investing in the employees. That includes providing employees with financial View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

August 2022
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Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action

By: Brian Trelstad, Tomas Rosales and Malini Sen

Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), a development research organization, to test its intervention for ECE with a... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Early Childhood Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Literacy; Values and Beliefs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Education Industry; India; Asia

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Cash House | About

in 1946. His achievements in business include helping establish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and passing the Federal Reserve Act. Yet these accomplishments are overshadowed by his active promulgation of segregationist policies in his home state,... View Details

14 Sep 2023
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MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

long-term goal of expanding to encompass a comprehensive range of financial solutions. Sophy Wang: MOONWISE is a venture that aims to increase menstrual health literacy in China through digital media and online education. A lack of proper... View Details

25 Aug 2003
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Why IT Does Matter

stifling differentiation, provide a stable platform to build on and offer new ways of differentiating, either by cost, structure, product, or service. Just as literacy stimulated innovation, so do open systems and grids. Outsourcing the... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

23 Jun 2008
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Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

consequences and likely future implications of their current decisions. Finally, my colleagues at D2D Fund are very excited about financial education initiatives where we are working with commercial video game developers to embed financial View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

31 Oct 2023
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Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978

hottest since record keeping began in 1940. Three of our classmates are on the leading edge of efforts to address the climate crisis, in the fields of bio agriculture, building renewable energy infrastructures worldwide, and creating climate View Details

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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