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Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

By: Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A. and Dean Yang
While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a randomized field experiment to investigate the importance of migrant control over the use of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Remittances; Intrahousehold Allocation; Savings; Saving; Residency; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; El Salvador; United States
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  • November 2001 (Revised February 2002)
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Resinas Sinteticas, S.A. (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Chemical Industry; Mexico; United States; Europe
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  • May 1993 (Revised January 1994)
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Cummins Engine Company, The: Starting Up "B" Crankshaft Manufacturing at the San Luis Potosi Plant

By: Robert H. Hayes
Cummins Engine Co. is starting up production of diesel engine crankshafts in its plant in central Mexico. This operation requires much tighter tolerances than any product previously produced at the plant, and the young (recent MBA) manager who is in charge of the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Production; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges; Industrial Products Industry; Mexico; Alabama
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  • 01 Dec 2007
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Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry From the Marlboro... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Manufacturing
  • 01 Feb 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Greetings from the chilly Northeast! For those of you looking for signs of spring or longing for the warmth of the sun, we've got just the thing. In three short months, we'll be in Cleveland celebrating the 2001 HBS Global Alumni Conference, which includes a concert by... View Details
Keywords: conferences; committees; leadership; alumni; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 20 Apr 2012
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Business Hall Honors HBS Alum

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 29 Aug 2012
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Composer finds mix of avocations a fine 'cocktail'

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance
  • Portrait Project

Yaw Agyenim-Boateng

One of my mentors put it this way: Humanity is counting not only on us but on those who we help to thrive and blossom in our wake. Deep? Very. Dramatic? Maybe. But I agree, because that's how I got here. My parents grew up as farmers in Jinijini, a small village in... View Details
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Xiaomu Yu

I learn a lot from my twin babies: They live simple lives – eating and sleeping; They make their voices heard – crying all the time; They dare to take risks – grabbing and biting everything near themselves. Most importantly, they enjoy and appreciate every moment of... View Details
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Vatsala Deora

"No." I taught fourth-graders in a slum in the heart of Mumbai. Of the fifty-two students squashed together on flimsy wooden benches in my class, Avdesh was the weakest performer. He was twelve, much older and bigger than his peers, and suffered from several... View Details
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Una Kim

I will be daring. I will dare the world... to change the way it sees itself and its fringes. to learn from those who are not valued but who are valuable. to create better places by including more perspectives. to respect individuals and cherish community. ...to become... View Details
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Tracy Williams

Why me? How could something like this happen to me? The first time was my freshman year in college. I couldn’t believe I had gotten into my dream school. Eager to change the world, I knew I’d study politics. But that dream quickly turned into a nightmare. I met a boy.... View Details
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Tedde Tsang

Fillmore. Geary. Stockton. Mission. Polk. Van Ness. The names of San Francisco's bus lines still come easily to my mind more than half a decade after working at the city's transit agency. In my time there, I religiously rode all 66 bus lines, stopwatch and clipboard in... View Details
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Taniel Chan

I was seven. I was oblivious. I threatened to run away from home. I grabbed my Buzz Lightyear and burst out the door. I ran boldly to the front gate and then froze, scared, with nowhere to go. I stood stubbornly for fifteen minutes before dragging myself back in,... View Details
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Sarah Lind Wimmer

I will dance. My eldest brother inherited all of the athletic genes and my formal dance training ended when I outgrew my tutu. But for me, skill is an afterthought - life, like dancing, is not a spectator sport. It requires passion, enthusiasm, ambition, confidence,... View Details
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Sophia Virani

Even as she worked in investment banking and hedge funds, Sophia Virani felt drawn to science and medicine. "I really wanted to be in a career that was more service-oriented, that allowed me to interact with people," she says. Sophia volunteered in hospitals... View Details
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Stephanie Tilenius

Today, Stephanie Tilenius is the Senior Vice President at eBay North America and Global Product, a highly visible role in an Internet powerhouse recognized worldwide. But the path Stephanie has taken to get there has been anything but obvious. After graduating from... View Details
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Scott Spencer

In my pocket, I carry a Gratitude Rock. When I pick it up in the morning, it reminds me to be grateful for all of the opportunities I've been given, for the love and health of my family, and of the promise that someday I might have a really positive impact on this... View Details
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Seth Shapiro

I am always rushing. As a native New Yorker, I am pretty good at it. I can cross a street faster than most, beeline my way through a jam-packed subway, and nimbly squeeze into a closing elevator. And I never miss a train. But I was en route to the 2013 Boston Marathon... View Details
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Sara Roedner

Throughout college, Sara Roedner spent her summers working at Steiner Sports Marketing, where she saw, "the power of sports to motivate people." Companies came to Steiner asking for athletes who could serve as spokespersons or make motivational speeches.... View Details