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  • June 2011
  • Article

Segmenting the Base of the Pyramid

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Djorjiji Petkoski
The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their constituencies' well-being. To do that effectively, you must understand the nuances of people's daily lives, say... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation; Human Needs; Income; Poverty; Profit; Relationships; Economics; Segmentation
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  • 29 Jun 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Trade Credit and Taxes

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley & James R. Hines
  • Research Summary

Savings among microentrepreneurs

Poverty is often characterized not only by low average income, but also by highly variable income and expenditures, and by a lack of access to insurance services that can help smooth consumption. While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from... View Details

    The Psychosocial Value of Employment

    In settings where employment opportunities are scarce, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field... View Details
    • 22 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Consumer Demand for Prize-Linked Savings: A Preliminary Analysis

    Keywords: by Peter Tufano, Nick Maynard & Jan-Emmanuel De Neve; Financial Services
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization

    By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
    Argentina privatized most public utilities during the 1990s but re-nationalized the main water company in 2006. We study beliefs about the benefits of the privatization of water services amongst low and middle income groups immediately after the 2006 nationalization.... View Details
    Keywords: Privatization; Public Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Values and Beliefs; Public Opinion; Utilities Industry; Argentina
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    • January 2011
    • Article

    Building a Better America—One Wealth Quintile at a Time

    By: Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely
    Disagreements about the optimal level of wealth inequality underlie policy debates ranging from taxation to welfare. We attempt to insert the desires of "regular" Americans into these debates, by asking a nationally representative online panel to estimate the current... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Policy; Perspective; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Income; Demography; Debates; Welfare; Diversity; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States
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    • 08 Oct 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

    The enterprise continued to make money even as it turned slowly to lose market share in a post-monopoly world. The positive net income helped greatly in supporting complacency. In frustration, his change agents waited and waited for a... View Details
    Keywords: by John P. Kotter
    • Winter 2021
    • Article

    Mobile Internet Usage and Usage-based Pricing

    By: Jeffrey Prince and Shane Greenstein
    Using data on mobile Internet usage of thousands of individuals, we provide some of the first analyses linking mobile usage to key demographics such as income. We find a reverse-U relationship between mobile Internet usage and income—notably different than the... View Details
    Keywords: Mobile Internet Usage; Pricing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Demographics; Income; Price; Strategy
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    • November 2019
    • Supplement

    Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020

    By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
    A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
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    • 2013
    • Comment

    Fairness and Redistribution: Comment

    By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
    In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)—henceforth, AA—argued that a preference for fairness could lead two identical societies to choose different economic systems. In particular, two equilibria might arise: one with low taxes and a belief that the... View Details
    Keywords: Taxes; Beliefs; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Taxation
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    • 22 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 22

    of viable jobs. Equilibria can then feature groups that learn naively from the experience of their members and accept low wage offers from prominent ads while other groups do not find these offers acceptable. A new test statistic is... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • May 2005 (Revised May 2011)
    • Background Note

    Inequality and Globalization

    By: David A. Moss, Anna Harrington and Jonathan Schlefer
    Inequality represented a major issue at the dawn of the 21st century. By many measures, inequality had increased over the previous several decades, within both developed and developing countries. Whether global inequality (measured across countries or among the people... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Wealth and Poverty; Income; Globalization
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    • July–August 2022
    • Article

    How Do Disadvantaged Groups Seek Information about Public Services? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Communication Technologies

    By: Katerina Linos, Melissa Carlson, Laura Jakli, Nadia Dalma, Isabelle Cohen, Afroditi Veloudaki and Stavros Nikiforos Spyrellis
    Governments and NGOs are switching to phone- and Internet-based communication technologies to reduce costs and broaden access to public services. However, these technological shifts can backfire if they exacerbate administrative burden in high-need communities. We... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Income
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    • 03 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 3, 2008

    China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Feb 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

    about. Craig Brandman has a company called Medilinq that provides medical discounts for people with low incomes or who are unemployed; he predicts that participation will grow six-fold by year-end. Peter... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 18 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 18

    find that involuntary closures are most frequent in U.S. counties with high rates of households headed by single mothers, low levels of college education, high rates of property crime, a strong presence of multi-market vs. local banks,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 15

    Relatedly, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Finally, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, particularly among managers at the low end of the wage... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    corporations to open their books for government inspection Influence: High 10 1910 19 Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Reserve Act First Federal-Aid Highway Act Federal Trade Commission established Personal View Details
    • 26 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 26

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad Authors:Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne