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- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
lucrative gig that taught him a lot about business but ultimately landed him in prison. Once he’d served his 14 months, Blakeman sought to build a career and turn his life around. But when his criminal record kept him from getting a job,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
affairs, could create national wealth based on manufacturing. This production would be fueled by an imperialistic British Empire, which through its expansion would provide the needed raw materials. The book proved extremely persuasive at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
It's a pittance in the West. A loan of only $500 to $1,200, however, can make all the difference for a man or woman eking out a living in the developing world. Just that much—the typical range of microfinance loans, according to Michael Chu, a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
funds; by the end of August 2008, the collective amount represented more than 20% of Chile's GDP. Several critics wanted the funds to be used to improve the poor public education system, income gap, and other impending social issues.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
Despite their best efforts, most companies continue to squander what may be their greatest asset in today's knowledge economy: the wealth of expertise, ideas, and latent insights that lies scattered across... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
data sources and illustrate how they can be used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income in New York City, suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Editor's note: How does an organization hold on to its wealth of accumulated knowledge when the knowledge-holders depart? It's a very real dilemma made even more critical as Baby Boomers begin their mass exit into retirement. The new book... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
respondents helped frame the challenge of "just enough." For example, Saurabh Dwivedy commented, "So long as there is humankind, there will be unfulfilled desires and broken dreams and a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
microfinance provider in Bangalore, wants to grow his business rapidly and become financially sustainable, but he's struggling with staff fraud, high costs, and how to stay true to Ujjivan's mission of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
proposals floating around, people have less time to consider and evaluate them all. A successful company like Yahoo! is inundated with business proposals from hopeful start-ups. When there is a wealth of... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Future of Market Capitalism
agonizing dilemma: Wealth creation comes from market capitalism, yet the market system has been hard for many parts of society, resulting in insecurities and inequalities. Under political pressure to make... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
is preparing for meetings with two clients. His first clients are Peggy and David Bartley, a professional married couple of moderate wealth. His second clients are Ray and Michelle Polanski, a couple that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
lower-income families. Meanwhile, the resulting profits add to the wealth of the Walton family and their fellow stockholders—a net gain for higher-income families. If one considers only dA, this profit gain... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
entitled "Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement." This paper looked empirically at households' wealth levels at retirement. The authors assess the role... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
(50 percent) of people adversely affected by the tax reform were high wealth individuals who had low levels of human capital. In other words, these would-be entrepreneurs lacked the skills, experience, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
aspects of developing globally competitive businesses. Much of their growth is driven by a wealth of smart, hard working, well-educated individuals. In other words, great human capital. However, they do not have fully formed financial... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
address poverty and poverty-related social needs. Using a number of illustrative cases, we explore how variation of local institutional mechanisms shapes the local "face of poverty" in different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne