Rural Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Nov 2011
News

A Storybook Beginning

Risher: E-reading the African story “Treasure of the Trees” at the Kade Primary School in Ghana. Courtesy David Risher If you’ve just read Curious George Visits the Library and desperately want to get your hands on Curious George Goes to the Beach, being a second... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

training, and marketing services. “Since 2010, we have more than doubled the yields and incomes of tens of thousands of smallholders and are on track to serve 1 million farmers by 2025,” Masha reported. Babban Gona specifically attracts View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural villages across West Africa.... View Details

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsFemale Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Harvard Business School Note 807-018 Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2006
News

Profiles from the Class of 2006

HBS inspired to make energy development the focus of his career, not as an engineer but as an investment banker. Upon graduation, he will join Credit Suisse in London. — RT Sarah Sommer All-American, passionate catalyst, avid listener Sommer When she was two, growing... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Margie Kelley;Lewis I. Rice;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

energy to population centers across the country by expanding the US electric-transmission grid. “If you look at the wind-power equation, you quickly see that transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, standard of living, and opportunity gaps between urban and View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

23 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

people,” Koning suggests. While the study only looked at women, the findings could apply to any group that is underrepresented in test audiences for tech, he adds, including people of color and rural consumers. Some venture firms have... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

rural Chinese. Just addressing that problem—finding ways that farmers in the country’s poorer provinces can achieve a standard of living equal to a high-tech worker in Hangzhou—is a daunting task. This increasing unease about economic... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-art-of-strategic-renewal/ August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Sep 2009
News

Ready for Launch

A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

start-up that provides clean drinking water to more than 64,000 rural villagers in India. The company uses a franchise model in which local entrepreneurs filter and sell water to members of their community. "In India, 87 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

important role of the infrastructure provision in any economy and how it shapes economic activity. Infrastructure includes everything from roads and airports to trains and broadband communication. We want to understand the impact for how the economy functions for View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

http://hbr.org/2012/03/enriching-the-ecosystem/ar/1 Reviving Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner and William Sahlman Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

people in rural areas who don't yet have computers," he continues. "This company's service allows e-mail messages to be sent from anywhere in the world to a post office near the addressee's home, printed out as a letter, stuffed... View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2013
News

Making Change

Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Real Estate

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

23 Apr 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

100 students. “Most of these young people grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” Condo notes. “We learn about them from their high schools or community leaders, who know they have extraordinary potential.”... View Details