Wealth And Poverty - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

data sources and illustrate how they can be used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income in New York City, suggesting that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

improvement through mechanisms of transparent review, stakeholder involvement, and organizational learning, but do not set rigid output requirements. There is a wealth of Bank literature on how to implement... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

23 Mar 2021
Blog Post

A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS

consultant. I’m really excited to help solve some big challenges at the highest levels of business. In the longer term, I want to work on deploying renewable energy assets across emerging economies to address energy poverty View Details

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

says Rose, who grew up in the Bay Area. "People are afraid that this special culture in this special place could get lost." Wealth And Culture Rose tackles these tensions in a new case study, San... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

14 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

Despite their best efforts, most companies continue to squander what may be their greatest asset in today's knowledge economy: the wealth of expertise, ideas, and latent insights that lies scattered across... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger

19 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

balance between financial and social returns – ensuring strong financial performance that maintains their AAA-rating and a low cost of capital, but also fulfilling the World Bank Group’s mandate of View Details

16 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Future of Market Capitalism

agonizing dilemma: Wealth creation comes from market capitalism, yet the market system has been hard for many parts of society, resulting in insecurities and inequalities. Under political pressure to make... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

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... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

25 Apr 2014
News

In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership

habits of young, upscale consumers. He says his team was struck by "the incredible contrast between emerging-market mayhem and tech-savvy efficiency" in a country where energy and optimism coexist with... View Details

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

proposals floating around, people have less time to consider and evaluate them all. A successful company like Yahoo! is inundated with business proposals from hopeful start-ups. When there is a wealth of... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

In the ancient world, the acquisition of celebrity was all about acquiring dignity. Today the acquisition of celebrity or wealth is at the expense of our dignity, Boteach said. Boteach agreed that both men View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

poverty in developing nations has to be dealt with much differently than in economies of plenty, that what works in a developed nation may be irrelevant to a nation of mass poverty. In a developed economy, the bias is toward greater... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Nov 2020
Blog Post

We Rise

formed True Wealth Ventures in 2015, and it is the philosophy that drives the firm today. Its requirement that there be at least one woman in a decision-making role on the executive team of any startup it... View Details

21 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Thoughts on the JD/MBA From a Recent Grad

that all the required credits can be completed during the fall and spring semesters, leaving the three summers free for internships. The majority of students will explore at least one business-related internship View Details

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

unlimited. Is there anything else you would like to share with fellow recruiters or those who are new to recruiting at HBS?HBS students bring a wealth of experience and diversity of perspective. Because of... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

lower-income families. Meanwhile, the resulting profits add to the wealth of the Walton family and their fellow stockholders—a net gain for higher-income families. If one considers only dA, this profit gain... View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

results. And there is more attention today than there was five years ago on building broader coalitions—"networked organizations"—that can work in a coordinated way to achieve system-level changes like the alleviation of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

(50 percent) of people adversely affected by the tax reform were high wealth individuals who had low levels of human capital. In other words, these would-be entrepreneurs lacked the skills, experience, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Fast Answer

Personal wealth: statistics

Where can I find statistics and information on the wealthy? Wealth and Asset Ownership data from the Census Bureau. Global Wealth Report from... View Details

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