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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
work, nonprofit fellows contribute to and witness transformations in the lives of others — with lasting effects on their own lives as well. One day last August in rural Kharagpur, India, Neera Nundy (HBS '02) accompanied a middle-aged... View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem: It's not clear whether the local agency flagging the potential... View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
poultry chicken he bred to address the nutritional and income needs of some of the poorest people on earth: India's rural villagers. As of November 2006, Keggfarms was supplying chicks to about 4 million View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
struck by a dignified silver-haired gentleman who took the stage to receive the award for social innovation. He then proceeded to eloquently describe the development of a business concept centered on the rural View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
million people around the globe lacked access to safe drinking water. Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, sought to bring fresh water to poor and rural areas with the Slingshot, a water purification device.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
thousands of pages of safety regulations. For those with poor safety practices, OSHA inspections can result in penalties and bad press that risk impugning the company's reputation. Both of these accounts suggest that for managers, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
humor, however, is a no-nonsense approach to business performance that stems from Fisher’s upbringing as the daughter and granddaughter of rural central Pennsylvania entrepreneurs who taught her that great ideas can be backed with the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
differently. We envisioned an interdisciplinary social enterprise, with a mission to create inclusive cities where poor and low-income people had greater housing choices. At mHS, we emphasize three principles: community, design, and... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
to meet Johnny Cash and ask so many questions from him, is Man in Black. “As any Cash fan knows, Johnny’s nickname was ‘The Man in Black,’ a color he always wore ‘ for the poor and beaten down the ones who are held back the sick and... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
Editor's Note: As an institution charged with fighting global poverty, the World Bank has found itself on the firing line of late. Critics cite a persistent lack of transparency and failure to include local insights in decision-making that affects the View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
doesn’t look like what I thought it would, but I have learned, once again, that people are so much more varied and interesting than what I could imagine on my own,” writes Margulies, who worked on improving health-care systems and rural... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
And by adding more customers, MasterCard potentially could also grow its bottom line. Financial inclusion raised questions for MasterCard. Was the management time and attention well spent given the low returns expected from adding millions of mostly very View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of very poor rural... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
federal estimates, only 11 percent of its subsidized fertilizer reached poor farmers; middlemen skimmed off much of the rest, often to sell to big farmers with deep pockets. The NAFCON factory closed in 1999 and fell into disrepair. It... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
the political elite, which integrated Argentina into the trading and financial networks of the first global economy. Provides an opportunity to understand why Argentina was such a successful economy at this time, and to debate whether its very success laid the basis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
funds; by the end of August 2008, the collective amount represented more than 20% of Chile's GDP. Several critics wanted the funds to be used to improve the poor public education system, income gap, and other impending social issues.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
fintechs will take you over." The bankers complained about the difficulty of gaining customers in rural markets with high rates of illiteracy. "I told them those potential customers knew how to use a smartphone better than we do," Shousha... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
to invest in social service provision. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212055-PDF-ENG China Life: Micro Insurance for the Poor Shawn Cole and Lilei XuHarvard Business School Case 212-030 China Life must decide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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marks a decade of progress Complete Table of Contents March 2013 Sizing Up Social Impact Quantifying results in the social sector comes down to the tricky work of measuring social good A Healthy Profit How do you make health care for the View Details
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Mobility, StringBio, and Exponent Energy. We will also focus on rural development and energy access for the poor arranged through organizations such as the SELCO Foundation. The schedule during the Immersion... View Details