Wealth and Poverty - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way the system currently functioned was associated with a great disparity of wealth View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

index of financial sophistication increases strongly with financial wealth and household size, and to a lesser extent with education and proxies... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

link: http://hbr.org/product/hbr-guide-to-getting-the-mentoring-you-need/an/11959E-KND-ENG August 2013 Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy The Not-So-Common-Wealth of Australia: Evidence for a Cross-Cultural Desire for a More... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2022
News

A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

chapters—features hyperlocal food drives. “The food comes from restaurants or corporations in the neighborhood, and our volunteers are residents of that neighborhood,” Ghose explains. The beneficiaries can be homeless people, or residents... View Details

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

advocates is to find a way to enact humanitarian sentiments in a world where shareholder wealth reigns.—Margolis & Walsh Closer to home, the picture may be more vivid and compelling. For twenty years,... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

01 Jun 2014
News

FIELD 2 in Accra

global business environment. Among this year's FIELD 2 countries, Ghana has both the lowest GDP per capita and the highest rate of GDP growth. "The country has a large and growing View Details

Keywords: FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

27 Oct 2021
Blog Post

HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

report. Small businesses are a major growth lever for wealth creation and employment in Massachusetts and across the country. Yet, many BIPOC-led View Details

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

relational aspects of blue-collar work are dwindling. How can positive communities among workers be enhanced while work becomes progressively more asocial? My Policies or Yours: Do OECD Agricultural Policies Affect Poverty in Developing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success

entrepreneurs can also keep talented members contributing to the broader family's wealth and mission. (The new Millennial generation—ages 15 to 30—seems especially interested in being entrepreneurs.)... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

is all this misconduct occurring now? A: I think it's the confluence of several factors: the use of powerful incentive packages, an exuberance that pushed equity prices to heights that were hard to justify economically and yet were very... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
Supplement

Keroche (C): The Excise Tax Increase

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding

This case discusses the Kenyan government’s decision to increase excise taxes on wines in 2007. The tax increase would cause an average increase in price of 367% on Keroche’s fortified wines. Meanwhile, Keroche’s competitor EABL had effectively lobbied the government... View Details

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08 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Education Sector Opportunities at HBS

of the greatest benefits at HBS is the wealth of knowledge, experiences, and insights that other students bring to the table to challenge ideas and support deeper learning. ... View Details

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

in investment, changed tax evasion behavior, or changes in stock prices associated (or contemporaneous) with JGTRRA. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1000680 Geography, Poverty View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

using systems thinking and complexity theory to help us understand the challenges at the ecosystem level. There's also growing attention to using randomized control trials in the social sector, which we tend to associate with drug trials.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

6 PM – 8 PM CET, 26 Feb 2015

London Alumni: Determine Your Career Elements & Connect with HBS

Join members of HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) and fellow HBS alumni to network, participate in a professional development exercise to determine your essential career elements, and gain insight on key HBS innovations and initiatives. View Details

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

action from leaders in government and business alike. This course gave me a foundational understanding of how American capitalism originated and continually perpetuates the racial View Details

Career Coach

Nicolle Richards

Nicolle is passionate about supporting students in navigating different roles focused on creating social impact. Nicolle has spent her whole career in the social impact space, working across philanthropy, impact investing, social enterprises, View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

that if she lost her job, she couldn't pay her children's school fees or pay for a doctor," says Pomeranz, an assistant professor in entrepreneurial management at Harvard Business School. “How can we understand what projects work to alleviate View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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