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Projects - Business History

the site contains video clips for classroom teaching, and a wealth of relevant resources to allow for further research. The Medici Project The Medici project seeks to illuminate contemporary questions about... View Details
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

wealth distribution and about 3% for the top 30% of the wealth distribution. Household consumption is significantly more responsive to dividend payouts. See Marco’s other... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

Mobile money operators struggle A growing number of companies are seeking to provide a level of financial access that is considered key to lifting people out of poverty and driving economic growth. A few... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications
  • Web

AASU50 - Alumni

Awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Medals Invocation, by Laura Morgan Roberts Spheres of Influence: A Portrait of Black MBA Program Alumni (HBS Research Findings) Spheres of Influence: A Portrait of Black MBA Program Alumni (Tony Mayo and Laura... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2024
  • News

On the Road to Recovery

Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) didn’t know much about travel nursing when he met a fellow entrepreneur by chance at a child’s birthday party in 2003. The man was considering starting a new business providing short-term staffing assistance to hospitals around the country.... View Details
  • 26 May 2016
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

passionate about giving back to society and is particularly interested in supporting women and children. She has served on UNICEF’s board of directors since 2005 and recently... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance
  • September 2012 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

micro Home Solutions: A Social Housing Initiative in India

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
mHS is a social enterprise for the provision of affordable housing in India. After India's microfinance industry collapses, mHS needs to reposition itself for continued operations and long-term growth. View Details
Keywords: India; Loans; Development; Micro Finance; Entrepreneurship; Housing; Social Enterprise; Poverty; India
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  • August 2022 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Boston Impact Initiative: Investing in Local Change

By: Emily R. McComb, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin
In fall 2021, Aliana Piñeiro, impact director at Boston Impact Initiative (BII) discovered that an entrepreneur the organization was considering for an investment had failed to disclose pre-existing debt with another lender. Although the business scored highly on BII’s... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Wealth; Poverty; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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  • January 2015 (Revised December 2015)
  • Case

Mauboussin

By: Anat Keinan, Sandrine Crener and Audrey Azoulay
Mauboussin is a French jewelry brand founded in 1827 in Paris. In the 1920s, the company earned a huge notoriety for capturing the aesthetic and emotional dimension of the Art Deco movement in its design and gained a worldwide reputation for innovation and expertise in... View Details
Keywords: Luxury; Luxury Brand; Luxury Goods; Jewelry; Jewels; Retail; Brand Repositioning; Brand Rejuventation; Brand Positioning; New Market Development; Entry In The US Market; American Jewelry Market; Global Brands; Growth Strategy; Mauboussin; Entrepreneurship; Failure; International Marketing; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Wealth; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Brands and Branding; Apparel and Accessories Industry; France
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  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Employing a wealth of interviews and quantitative data, their book takes the first comprehensive approach in decades to examine the evolving... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • Web

HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Ventures Kerry Rupp (MBA 1999) , General Partner, True Wealth Ventures Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) , Founder and CEO, Landit Bejul Somaia (MBA 1998) , Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners Jonathan Spier... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

What was your undergraduate university and major? I studied petroleum engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2 deferred admissions process? While at OU, I got involved in an organization... View Details
  • 06 May 2021
  • HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

perpetuates income and wealth disparities. “Not having anyone in our immediate network that could mentor and advise us made it harder and more... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

improve their economic competitiveness by building on their competitive advantage. We must shift from a poverty-reduction mentality to one of creating income and wealth through the market economy. Q: Thank... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • Profile

Meagan Hill

independent-study project she completed during her second year at HBS, "I'd like to help First Nations in Canada and Native Americans nations in the U.S. manage their capital, enterprises, and resources... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • 24 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

classmates within the joint degree was invaluable. He noted, “I found this group is where I belonged. They didn’t judge me for wanting to be an investor. They got the fact that I cared about wealth inequality issues View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

Vicente Fox, who was then governor of the state of Guanajuato. “I didn’t want to abandon the business or my research, because both were important to me,” recalls Ramirez. After Fox’s historic victory last summer, Ramirez joined a team of six development View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

private equity in Asia, Kim was born 60 years ago into a very different Korea. In 1970, when Kim was seven years old, Korea’s annual GDP per capita was just under $280. Still recovering from war and finding its financial footing, it’s a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

small part of the larger whole. To a certain extent, this is because of the advantages of specialization that Adam Smith identified in pin manufacturing as long ago as 1776 in The Wealth of Nations. However, it goes beyond the economies... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

Summing Up: What Next, If Manufacturing Proves Not To Be A Creator Of Those Good "factory Jobs" Of The Past? Manufacturing is essential to the health of an economy. It both fuels and results from innovation. It is natural in the course of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing