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Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit
on credit is not the way to wealth but the road to insolvency. Prints such as these would have been sold singly as broadsheets or reprinted in periodicals. Either way, they were popular sources of news, information, and cultural attitudes... View Details
Academic Excellence
archive boxes, to get a wealth of new ideas and the desire to carry out a multitude of new research projects. But above all, HBS is all about excellent encounters. The school brings together a large number of personalities with whom... View Details
- December 2019
- Case
Noiler
By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
In 2019, Nigerian entrepreneur Dr. Ayoola (Ayo) Oduntan is accelerating distribution of Noiler, a genetically optimized breed of poultry, to smallholder farmers across Nigeria. The bird was bred to be productive as a source of both meat and eggs and to thrive in the... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
While net worth is on the rise for most Americans, the picture is only getting dimmer for the country's poorest families: For the 11.3 percent of Americans living below the poverty line in 2000, wealth (in terms of financial investment,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
with increasing rivalry and change and one that will be characterized by continued downward pressure on advertising rates. As Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon once said, "A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention." "That has... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
wealth to those at the bottom of the pyramid," she says. In 2002, Seegull left Novica to consult at various impact enterprises and several philanthropic family foundations. Four years later, she joined Funk Ventures as COO and managing... View Details
- 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
Di Tella, Rafael, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch. "A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism." In The Natural Resources Trap: Private Investment without Public Commitment, edited by William Hogan and Federico Sturzenegger. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country expecting that the economy will get worse, not better. This... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 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 changes, the business world and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 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
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Uncovering the Virtual Advantage at Humana
wealth of resources for leaders to keep remote employees engaged. With this training engrained within the company, Humana managers were ready to bring interns in smoothly and integrate them as members of the team. Why Virtual Recruiting... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
beverage business incubator when it opens later this year. Located right next to a public transportation stop, the new facility will spur economic activity in one of Chicago’s highest need neighborhoods, East Garfield Park on Chicago’s west side. The Hatchery will... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
between 20 and 30 percent of the headcount is not optimized for utilization,” Berendt says. “About 200,000 people are sitting idle. We want to take this wealth of talent and connect it to Fortune 5000 companies.” These talent-as-a-service... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
day or less. The number of people living in poverty at the bottom of the wealth pyramid, versus the relative handful at the pyramid’s peak, represents what is potentially the most explosive socioeconomic challenge facing the world. Now,... View Details
- May 2009
- Teaching Note
The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Eric D. Werker
Teaching Note for [709024] and [709052]. View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
(founded in 2013) and too small (valuation of $55 million) to pass muster for listing on any exchange. But for the 1,080 people who otherwise would have been shut out of owning a piece of the startup—lacking the wealth or credentials to... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
individuals who apply,” Rivkin told The Wall Street Journal. “Reducing financial barriers is key. It increases financial aid to families that have historically been unable to accumulate wealth over generations and therefore struggled to... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
reasoning. But, argues the wise chorus, "from death alone he still cannot escape . . . Limitation is built in to the human condition. You need to bend to higher laws." Limits? Tell that to today's college graduates, more in debt than ever before and with the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
worked so hard to build? Simple. From Perkowski’s ringside seat inside the Middle Kingdom, the entrepreneurial grass now grew greener elsewhere. While he was busy building ASIMCO, the Chinese economy took off with a galloping GDP and ballooning private View Details