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- 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 people power so essential to the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
important and lasting way of creating value and wealth in the new economy? Morten Hansen, Henry Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria, and Donald Sull argue that one type of incubator, called a networked incubator, represents a fundamentally new and... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: The Impact of Access and Value
By: Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson and Georgia Perakis
The goal of this paper is to leverage household-level data to improve food-related policies aimed at increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables (FVs) among low-income households. Currently, several interventions target areas where residents have limited... View Details
Keywords: Food Deserts; Food Access; Food Policy; Causal Inference; Food; Nutrition; Poverty; Government Administration
Levi, Retsef, Elisabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis. "Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: The Impact of Access and Value." MIT Sloan Research Paper, No. 5389-18, October 2020.
- April 2007 (Revised July 2007)
- Supplement
Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (B)
By: Laura Alfaro, Eric D. Werker and Renee Kim
Alfaro, Laura, Eric D. Werker, and Renee Kim. "Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 707-040, April 2007. (Revised July 2007.)
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
as misguided. “Imagining what will happen to your career in all its dimensions — from job quality to earnings power to wealth creation potential — is more important,” says Senior Associate Dean for External Relations William Sahlman, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Maiden Voyage
wealth to reinvent itself as a modern global competitor. Still, getting to Mars will be a nine-month journey, and lots can go wrong. “A country can only have one fiftieth anniversary,” says Al Hashmi. “Failure is not an option.” View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Archival Collections - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
campus. The wealth of architectural records also includes blueprints, drawings and sketches of site plans, sections, elevations, and floor plans. Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Resource Link The Archives at the Frederick Law... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
"disruptive" of collusive schemes than others. Download the paper: http://nocke.vwl.uni-mannheim.de/fileadmin/user_upload/nocke/papers/NockeWhite-IJIO-2010.pdf Wealth Inequality in the European Periphery, Ireland, 1858-2001... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
challenges like climate change, health care, and wealth inequality.” To integrate and amplify HBS’s efforts, Dean Datar has appointed Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, to serve as Senior... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
membership. This year’s candidates are: Rozlyn L. Anderson, AB ’77, JD ’80. Senior Vice President, Merrill Lynch Trust Company, and Director, Wealth Management Strategies, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
decades, $3.4 trillion of wealth in China will pass to a new generation of high-net-worth families, many of whom want to do well by doing good. “At the conference we saw many young social entrepreneurs who, instead of taking high-paying... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Crucible: Give It Up
Here’s a great saying that’s been particularly relevant in my life over the past few years: “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” To rewind a bit, I was named president of Micron Technology in January 2012. Five days later, my boss, the CEO, died in a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
millennium, wealth in Manhattan started to expand, just like it had in 1900. But people wanted something different: They wanted more contemporary design. They wanted to be downtown. They wanted higher rises, and they wanted more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
concludes Moss, "we hope to address the students' need for efficiency in gathering information through better access to the wealth of resources at HBS. We'll also be able to offer students more flexibility in their job searches. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Dornenburg (Little, Brown & Co.) This guide to creating delicious dishes contains tips, anecdotes, and signature dishes from the most imaginative chefs in the country. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
Located in Mumbai, India, Dharavi is home to an estimated 700,000 people living on just 551 acres. Featured in the 2008 Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, Dharavi embodies the characteristics of a slum as defined by the United Nations: inadequate access to safe... View Details
- March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon
By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into... View Details
Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Cross-border Frictions; Remittances; Business Startups; Diasporas; Financial Crisis; Money; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Poverty; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Lebanon
Cohen, Lauren, and Grace Headinger. "Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon." Harvard Business School Case 222-078, March 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
- March 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Inequality in Brazil
By: Aldo Musacchio
This case examines the evolution of inequality in Brazil in the last few years and generates two debates. First, the case discusses inequality and whether it is a problem or not for capitalist societies, in this case Brazil. Second, the case discusses some of the... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Brazil
Musacchio, Aldo. "Inequality in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 711-086, March 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia
By: Lakshmi Iyer
This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal conflict in South Asian countries, using multiple data sources. I find that incidents of terrorism have been rising across South Asia over the past decade, and this increase has been concentrated in... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; International Relations; National Security; Conflict Management; Poverty; South Asia
Iyer, Lakshmi. "The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-086, January 2009.