African American - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

70 people) and expanded to four other states in Nigeria and five additional African countries. While both programs were making progress, challenges remained. Sanginga had originally hoped that the agripreneurs program would launch dozens... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

Cassandra L. Govan, Dan Ariely, and Elise Holland Abstract—Recent evidence suggests that Americans underestimate wealth inequality in the United States and favor a more equal wealth distribution (Norton & Ariely, 2011). Does this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

53 African countries. Management also plans to open a 2,000-bed hospital in the Cayman Islands to provide underinsured Americans with tertiary care procedures at 40% below U.S. prices, thereby bringing Dr.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709410 Lapdesk Goes Global—Africa First Harvard Business School Case 809-066 Shane Immelman, founding CEO of the Lapdesk Company of South Africa, is facing a number of challenges in taking Lapdesk from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

of rapid technological change. Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals Authors:Rafael Di Tella Publication:CATO Papers on Public Policy 1 (2011) Abstract We describe the evolution of selective aspects of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

Philadelphia; two African American men being escorted from the store. He flew out there that same day. How could Mark disappear for five days? As did his partner, Sheryl Sandberg. And it even got worse... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

infrastructure development came from traditional international sources like the World Bank or African Development Bank, those lenders would worry about foreign exchange, interest rates, and political risk and would almost always seek... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

interesting to note the absence of family-owned companies in this group. If we take into consideration the fact that the use of social ventures as a competitive tool is not entirely legitimized within the Latin American business... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

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