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  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

The $4 Billion Question

between generating wealth for the firm’s investment professionals via the fee stream, which is strictly a function of how many dollars you manage, and the investors in the firm — the so-called limited partners, who make money only when... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management
  • July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
  • Case

Propel

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Food Stamps; EBT; Mobile App; User Research; Financial Services Referrals; Grocery Marketing; Customer Discovery; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Business Model; Research; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Welfare; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; United States
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  • April 2007
  • Case

Microfinance in Bolivia: A Meeting with the President of the Republic

By: Michael Chu
Herbert Muller, chair of leading microfinance bank BancoSol, has met with Evo Morales one year after the populist leader's inauguration as president of Bolivia and proceeds to write an email to his fellow board directors. The bank is world famous for pioneering... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Race; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Microfinance; Poverty; Interest Rates; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia; South America
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  • 16 Dec 2020
  • News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

building a network of community leaders to establish and maintain these arisans, and share in the profit of any sales. It was another way for entrepreneurs in Indonesia’s villages to build wealth and savings. It had been a years-long... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’

their stuff embarrasses them. Their Range Rovers no longer tell the world that they are sophisticated town and country socialites. There are simply too many of them on the road to offer much social status. Worse, they now signal the irresponsible selection of a... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

from the Working Paper.Ann Cullen: How is your system different than traditional mutual fund rating systems? Cohen: Our method takes advantage of a wealth of previously unexploited information about fund holdings. Standard metrics rate... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 21 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products

products before joining the CPD team in 2003 as a career coach and sector lead for the consumer products industry. Katja brings a wealth of operational knowledge from her experience in logistics and event planning at HBS and a personal... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans, insurance companies, sovereign View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 May 2019
  • Blog Post

Viewpoints: Synthetic Thinking with a Humble Mindset

whether by nation (us vs. them), by wealth (rich vs. poor), and by political orientation (Right vs. Left). This is a world where there is thesis and anti-thesis; and these two positions are seemingly incompatible.   However, the following... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

The Softer Side of Business at HBS

Value and (of course) Negotiations. The wealth of opportunities to hone your own interpersonal skills really impressed me. 2.  Professors and Students Are Very Passionate about This Topic  Ok, so it was great to find out that courses... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Letters to the Editor

close, intelligent attention may be a challenge. We must recognize that there exists a number of public companies that might not merit a significant commitment of wealth by people who would be highly qualified to serve as directors (a... View Details
  • November 2014
  • Case

BRAC in 2014

By: Tarun Khanna, Rachna Tahilyani, Reeti Roy and Aldo Sesia
In the early 1970s BRAC was a startup nongovernmental organization (NGO) working in Bangladesh. By 2014, it was the world's largest NGO. It had a strong presence in Bangladesh and had begun to deliver social development programs in nine other countries. Its founder and... View Details
Keywords: BRAC; Bangladesh; NGO; Strategy; Business Model; Business Organization; Social Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Bangladesh
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In Microfinance, Clients Must Come First

By: Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas
In the debate over whether microfinance works, few microfinance institutions articulate what, exactly, their ultimate goals are and how, exactly, they will achieve them. The authors cut through the confusion by mapping a clear theory of change for microfinance. If the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Social Entrepreneurship; Microfinance; Goals and Objectives; Success; Social Enterprise; Poverty
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  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Faculty Books

he seeks counsel from a panel of advisers, resulting in a wealth of teaching moments. Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville (Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

all four drives for all of the stakeholders involved. In contrast, China primarily finances its rapid industrialization by attracting large amounts of foreign investment capital. Domestic consumption is constrained only among the poorer working masses, while there is... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 11 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

research to write a subsequent report. We also piloted a few programs within sections to experiment with identifying and surfacing class tensions—one example of that was a “Class Confessions” program in which students anonymously shared their connections to View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Business at the Summit

elected officials.” “Where are the grown-ups?” asked Gadiesh, referring to the lack of 21st-century institutions needed to lead in government and business. Zobel described how wealth disparities in the Philippines create popular distrust... View Details
Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

inner city areas. "If we can get companies growing in the inner city, jobs, income and wealth will follow," asserted Porter. Advantages of inner cities start with unmet market needs. "If you're a retailer, you can put... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

of education. This is particularly true of those with "strong brands." Describing the new virtual schools as "intermediaries," Ilyas Naibov-Aylisli suggests that schools with highly regarded and recognized names (or "trustmarks")... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

press. He also urged them not to let the specter of poor governments dissuade them from considering entrepreneurial careers in their home countries. "I see an enormous amount of opportunity for improvement, for personal wealth... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace