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- 20 Jul 2020
- News
Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online
but was glad she was able to curb the infection rate.” The city, she added, also received $30 million in federal loans for small business as well as food and rent assistance. Under her leadership, the homeless have been tested and moved to hotels, and jail View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
was that: ‘Five hundred years ago, it was generally accepted that only 10 percent of people had the mental capacity to read and write. We look back and think that’s ridiculous. But if I asked you today what percent of the population has... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Demographic Changes By: Bardhan, Pranab, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee, and Francisco Pino Abstract—This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
to create viral marketing, is actually much less expensive. Say you're an advertiser and you want to reach the MySpace population segment. Do I want to be advertising on television, or do I want to somehow be advertising on MySpace?... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
Parliament: “I was an independent member and every time I wanted to speak on an issue I was allowed to speak. So whether it was on framing the national slum policy or whether it was the domestic violence against women act or whether it was the View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
developing countries, it is estimated that only 1 percent of China's population now controls 60 percent of its wealth.6 Sure enough, the Chinese government itself has recently reported that there have been thousands of bloody clashes... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
outside contributions to populate Wikipedia, the product's secret sauce could be spoiled. "That kind of ossification, if that happened, could be really dangerous," says McAfee. "But my feeling is this existential debate about the... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)
reality is that different populations and people from different backgrounds actually do need additional support in order to create an equal experience. Introducing that lens to help the school better understand where it could benefit from... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
were about 50 people, and we started to hold meetings with the mayor of Mito, who agreed to support the project through deregulation, by providing tax incentives, and by communicating with the city’s population so the project could move... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
says Amadio. In fact, Amadio and two classmates—David Gellis (MD/MBA 2010), today medical director of Population Health at Boston-based Iora Health, and Vinod Nambudiri (MD/MBA 2010), now an internist, hospitalist, and associate program... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
into an ambitious Financial Inclusion Program to serve previously unbanked rural populations through a rapid expansion of its branch network and the use of nonbank business correspondents? In addition, should the bank commit part of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
heterogeneity does not address the similarity critique of discrete-choice models. Although IIA may technically be broken in aggregate, the mixed logit model allows neither a given individual nor the population as a whole to behave with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
from where it is grown to the tables where it is consumed. The global population is rising, with the United Nations projecting it to swell to 9.7 billion from its current 7.7 billion by 2050. “We also have to solve the calorie deficiency... View Details
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
Enterprise Club has over 300 members per year and has spun off a number of new clubs since I graduated (including the Education Club). When I was one of the Co-Presidents of the Club, we put together a speaker series on social change, history of waves of View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then markets with large View Details
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
three factors that predict neighborhood improvement. First, neighborhoods that are densely populated by college-educated adults are more likely to experience physical improvements—an observation that is compatible with the economic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Americans value; what we value, more accurately, is "liberal democracy." Thus, we would not support the right of 51 percent of a population to persecute or kill the other 49 percent, despite the fact that this is consistent with... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
deal sources, right? The people, the investment banks, the middle market investment banks who provide deals—and underlying all of that is two critical problems, right? One is there's just pervasive, unconscious bias. It's not intentional. It's just that the industry... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
Its user base is not really growing, but 70 million users is nothing to sneeze at. So why doesn't MySpace get the attention it deserves? The fascinating answer, acquired by studying a dataset of 100,000 MySpace users, is that they largely View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding 20% of the world's View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel