Wealth And Poverty - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2023
News

Drop Everything, Read This

capitalist systems, creating great wealth as well as great harms in the last half century. Baker is founding president of Global Financial Integrity, a research and advocacy organization working to curb... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

at affordable rates the HBS Impact Investment Fund is part of an important local ecosystem working to build greater equity and diversity in business ownership, and ultimately in View Details

04 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Tech Club

these skills workshops to see if eventually there’s enough there to transition it into the official coursework. The club has been able to nimbly work with similar tech clubs across all the Harvard schools and other schools like MIT. The... View Details

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage brokers who fabricated applications for no downpayment home loans knowing that the risks could be readily laid off on unsuspecting third parties. But underpinning the collapse of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

20 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce

activities, moving away from your original business. If you can't consider diversification and entrepreneurial efforts, you are probably not going to survive long-term. Identify And Develop Family View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

equality, and poverty reduction. For the full listing, click here . Tough Tech Ventures (Spring 2025) Joshua Lev Krieger & Jim Matheson While tough technology has the potential to transform incumbent... View Details

11 Mar 2024
Blog Post

A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh

Korea, they also concentrated money and power, leading to some serious problems for today’s South Koreans. Once again, there are plenty of competing viewpoints on whether government’s interventions helped or hindered the success story of... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

vast bulk dating from 1400 to 1600. The collection sheds light on the business and personal activities of six generations of one branch of Florence’s renowned Medici family, whose wealth was derived... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 May 2023
News

India's New Money Managers

experiences came together for Gupta. A project for her business strategy class asked her to select a business and create a go-to-market strategy for it. Gupta and her team presented an investment platform... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 2023
News

Venturing Forth

Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

18 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Family Business Club

to pursue. Some students also consider starting their own business post-MBA. This is a touchy subject which students often struggle with. Members also often battle with issues like succession planning, wealth regeneration, nepotism, etc.... View Details

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

investments. Through Solara’s IoT-enabled systems with dynamic pricing, digital payments, and booking features, farmers can operate their own irrigation businesses, serving their non-pump owning neighbors water at rates below current... View Details

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

the wealth to walk away. Put well-regarded, powerful executives in charge of acquisition integration. Divest them of all other responsibilities during an important integration. Make this into a core competency, View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

and managers), and they need to self-actualize (assigned interesting work, able to reach career goals, achieving wealth to reach personal goals or making a social impact). The... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

for myself was informed by those experiences, which is why I wanted to work at the intersection of real estate, women's rights to wealth to property, and building community. So I was writing it back then... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

practical or would have produced better results. The governments of democracies as a whole prioritize generating wealth over the environment, because it translates into votes. Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship ; Environment ;... View Details

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

city’s resurgence. He spearheaded the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, fought poverty with new programs that became national models, and turned around a failing school system. He also reduced carbon emissions... View Details

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

ethics curricula and corporate ethical codes (Enron famously possessed one of the latter while its top managers were busy destroying the wealth of their shareholders and the... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Aldrich Hall | About

Aldrich Hall Aldrich Hall was made possible through a gift from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and is named in honor of his father-in-law, Nelson W. Aldrich. When it opened in 1953, Aldrich Hall provided much-needed classroom space on the HBS... View Details

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The Challenge of Shared Prosperity: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2015 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

By: Jan Rivkin, Karen G. Mills and Michael E. Porter

In the 2015 survey on U.S. competitiveness, HBS alumni weigh in on the current state and future trajectory of U.S. competitiveness as well as the structural strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. business environment. In addition, alumni delve deeper into two aspects of... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; U.S. Competitiveness; Shared Prosperity; Wealth; Competition; United States

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