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  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Bart Harvey: Opportunities for Others

explains Harvey. "He believed in both the free-enterprise system and the use of wealth to provide opportunity for others. When I joined the Enterprise Foundation in 1984, Jim told me, 'Now you're an investment banker for the poor, not the... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

particular politics that surround the commercialization of reproductive technologies. Her recent publications include a book of cases on managing international trade and investment and Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and View Details
Keywords: fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

Male Circumcision and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis

By: Amrita Ahuja, Brian Wendell and Eric D. Werker
Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical studies to test the mixed theoretical predictions. In this paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2005 using... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Health Disorders; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Research; Education; Nutrition; Risk Management; Africa
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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog

tail risk hedging, futures and swaps, etc.). Students also explore investing from the asset owner perspective, learning modern practices in portfolio construction for personal and institutional investors (family offices, endowments, pension funds, and sovereign View Details
  • 10 Mar 2011
  • News

Philanthropy’s Dilemma

underperformance,” write Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) and Joel Fleishman, two of the nation’s leading authorities on high-performance giving, in their new book, Give $mart, Philanthropy That Gets Results. “The generosity that causes people to use their View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 22 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

investors. Indeed, back in 2014, Jigar Shah, then founder of SunEdison (now Director of U.S. DOE Loan Programs Office and recent guest on HBS’s Climate Rising Podcast), posited that climate is the largest wealth creation opportunity of... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

businesses often answer unmet wants and needs that they see on a local level." Gopal Padinjaruveetil asked " where is the wealth created? In the case of small business the wealth is created in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

WE RISE

formed True Wealth Ventures in 2015, and it is the philosophy that drives the firm today. Its requirement that there be at least one woman in a decision-making role on the executive team of any startup it invests in is “not just a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Mobile Money Services—Design and Development for Financial Inclusion

By: Rajiv Lal and Ishan Sachdev
Mobile money services are being deployed rapidly across emerging markets as a key tool to further the goal of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion, the development of novel methods to enable individuals at the base of the pyramid to access formal financial services... View Details
Keywords: Social Marketing; Poverty; Emerging Markets; Product Launch; Economic Growth; Financial Services Industry
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  • Portrait Project

Ashley Ng

I will take the gifts he has built for me – love, knowledge, wealth – and use them to build the next generation of kids, companies, and dreams. Like my dad, I will also build from the ground up. View Details
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • Blog Post

Leverage Baker Library to Inform Your Job Search Every Step of the Way

Whether you are creating a target list of employers, preparing for an interview or exploring new industries, research is a critical part of any successful job search. As an HBS alumna/us, you have a wealth of resources available to you to... View Details
  • 25 Oct 2006
  • Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

or possibly until they leave the firm. With Rawlsian options, managers would retain their high-powered incentives and know that large fractions of their wealth were invested in their companies. But they would not know all the thresholds... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed

alumni, expand membership, engage with the local community, and heighten club visibility among current HBS students," Mallalieu says. A wealth of best practices, ideas, news, information, and club contacts can be found at... View Details
  • Web

European Economic History & Philosophy | Baker Library

comprehensive collections of the works of Adam Smith in many translations and editions, including The Wealth of Nations , The Theory of Moral Sentiments , collected works, and miscellaneous writings. To learn more about accessing our... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS

deficit, which amounts to “a wealth transfer to the rest of the world.” “We're like an enormously rich family that daily is selling off a little piece of the farm, or mortgaging it to the rest of the world.” Buffett spent much of his time... View Details
Keywords: Warren Buffett; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

On the Origins of Our Discontent

By: Rawi Abdelal and Thomas J. DeLong
Signs of discontent with global capitalism and national capitalisms abound. Unless we find ways to create better jobs and then improve those jobs further with empathic management and thoughtful mentoring, then we will be unable to create a more stable, purposeful... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Globalization; Government and Politics
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  • April 2009 (Revised April 2009)
  • Background Note

Fighting Malnutrition and Hunger in the Developing World

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Djordjija Petkoski and Kerry Herman
The millennium objectives of reducing poverty and malnutrition are not being met. How do the private, public, and NGO sectors of society work together to achieve better results and include the recipients in the process? View Details
Keywords: Food; Nutrition; Poverty; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations; Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 27 Aug 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur

become staples of our modern country and economy: beauty products, national sales forces, and corporate social responsibility. Who Owns Space? Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are tapping into their vast personal wealth to make... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2021
  • News

New Funding for Female Founders

Jessica Assaf (MBA 2016), Andy Coravos (MBA 2017), and Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) There’s been a wealth of good news for alumnae entrepreneurs in recent weeks, with founders Jessica Assaf (MBA 2016), Andy Coravos (MBA 2017), and Amrita... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 21 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

business that is creating economic opportunity for marginalized communities in the United States. McClain, who also completed a master’s in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, will serve as chief of staff at BrightUp, a seed-stage Boston-based fintech company... View Details