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  • November 2020 (Revised September 2021)
  • Case

BRAC in 2020

By: Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
In 2020, the largest non-governmental organization in the world, BRAC, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has some big problems to tackle. Its founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, has left behind a challenge: take the 1981-founded organization from Bangladesh to every... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Education; Health; Social Issues; Poverty; Programs; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Education Industry; Health Industry; Bangladesh; South Asia
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Crime Distribution and Victim Behavior during a Crime Wave

By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization rate in one group may not reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Wealth and Poverty; Selection and Staffing; Crime and Corruption; Income; Leading Change; Information Management; Argentina
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  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

Ryan has conducted a number of experimental studies related to customer behavior in service contexts. His wealth of experience helps us avoid critical mistakes, leverage ideas from other areas, and quickly identify new future research... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2020
  • News

Money Matters

books, including Tina Hay (MBA 2002), for tips to help young investors get through and recover from their first financial crisis. Hay is the author of Napkin Finance: Build Your Wealth in 30 Seconds or Less. She is also the founder and... View Details
  • 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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  • Web

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
  • March 2017
  • Supplement

Microfinance in India 2010-2016: Crisis and Recovery

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers and Yannick Saleman
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Government Administration; Policy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details
Keywords: History; Natural Environment; Non-Renewable Energy; Values and Beliefs; Price; Poverty; Policy; Economy; United States
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  • 09 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

advocates is to find a way to enact humanitarian sentiments in a world where shareholder wealth reigns.—Margolis & Walsh Closer to home, the picture may be more vivid and compelling. For twenty years, Americans have lived through a... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
  • 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
  • Profile

Aaron Chadbourne

high-level wealth managers. It gave me exposure to the kinds of problems senior level executives think about. Within a week, I was on the phone with executives eager to talk to me because I could connect them with resources they... View Details
  • 27 Apr 2017
  • News

Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

burdens of debt prompted York, global head of Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs, to endow a fellowship in recognition of his 25th Reunion and add to it for his 30th. The son of a veteran, York supports students who have a... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)

away. However, this new economy offers the best opportunities for high-wage jobs, upward mobility, and wealth creation. There's never been a better time than now to start a new venture. HBSB: Are there any clouds on the horizon? Doerr:... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Jon Rudoe

incredibly lucky to have the talents and opportunities to choose the places where and ways in which we want to leave our impressions on the world. So therefore, what do I plan? I plan to help companies grow, to create wealth for society... View Details
  • November 2006 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel and Nelson Hioe
In March 2006, Larry English, Director of Program Design and Innovation for Habitat for Humanity International Africa and the Middle East, was reflecting on a large development project in Durbin that had stalled. Notwithstanding global attention led by former President... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets; Social Entrepreneurship; Poverty; Property; Projects; South Africa; Middle East
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  • 09 Dec 2021
  • News

Higher Returns

causes of all this that you lay out in the book is what you refer to as the “great wealth migration.” Can you talk about the great wealth migration? Define it and tell us a little bit about its impact on the... View Details
  • Profile

Rawiah Abdallah

businesses in Egypt and from there, throughout Africa. It's an underserved sector where I can make a big impact through funding and consulting. When small businesses are properly financed and advised, they will make large contributions to the View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Other Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Jackie Adams

news. Now interested in “moving from success to significance,” Adams says, “I’m working in the nonprofit sector as a consultant to create wealth for minority communities as well as bring together companies and individuals to turn the... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner; journalism; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 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