Aid Effectiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2013
News

Bringing It Back Home

organizations and the challenges they face is an essential part of the experience. And the range of perspectives is amazing. The geographic diversity of the participants is matched and possibly exceeded by the diversity of the causes and organizations they represent,... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; SPNM; Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; Roadtrip Nation; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Bloomberg’s Gift to Boost Cities

in the field about best practices and effective management tools, so they can expand their knowledge and sharpen their leadership skills. The new Bloomberg-Harvard partnership seeks to bridge that gap.” —Excerpt from an August op-ed in... View Details

Profile

Alice Yang

projects ranging from an analysis of PIH’s clinical outcomes in rural Haiti, editing and publishing a bilingual manual on AIDS treatment in resource-poor settings, overseeing potable water projects for at-risk families in Haiti, and... View Details

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

still have options, says Mills, who led the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013 and was an Obama cabinet member. Getting through the coming months will require extreme ingenuity and shrewdness from business owners, and additional waves of View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

balances laid off more workers, regardless of their levels of sales tax reliance, the researchers found, but in cases of high sales-tax dependence, having more cash on hand weakened the effect on job losses. Federal View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2017
News

The Lines That Divide America

fair process they had come to expect, is increasingly aiding and abetting these line-cutters.” Nohria argues that feelings are equally strong among people with means, who see their own hard work, creativity, and sacrifices as... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

01 Mar 2015
News

An Exceptional Faculty of Scholars and Teachers

250 academics and practitioners — who make them a reality. Today’s faculty members are drawn from an increasingly wide range of backgrounds and disciplines. Developing these individuals—helping them become not just effective but... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 Dec 2020
Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

able to effectively deliver transformative therapies to patients in need. As a member of the first cohort of Harvard’s MS/MBA joint degree, I wanted to share four things you should know about this new program.” Read More How Financial... View Details

08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate demand, prices, the national accounts, savings, and the balance of payments. We find that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

According to the study, each developing country on the intergovernmental aid organization's Board of Executive Directors receives a significant boost in loans and grants—effectively a doubling of their funding, equivalent to a $60 million... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Scott Wu

little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on development projects in Tanzania and... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Technology

04 Sep 2019
News

Accelerating Allston

Applied Sciences (SEAS) by creating an endowment for financial aid for students in the Schools’ joint MS/MBA program in Engineering Sciences. “The expansion of SEAS to Allston is a catalyst for collaboration that will propel and transform... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

sanctions. Much of the southern improvement comes, not from oil production, but removing bottlenecks arising from sanctions. Improved underlying performance results from reversing prior policy mistakes. The authorities rehire the police. They have View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

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Kayode Ogunro

understanding of why some processes are more effective than others. Before, I had an outsider's view; now, I have deeper insight into key business issues." International involvement In his winter and spring breaks, Kayode... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning

organize into effective teams and have the chance to work on a problem for several days, as opposed to the length of an Aldrich class period. They also have to think about how to communicate their recommendations in a sensitive way and in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

20 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

and, in particular, the significant impact translational science has on patients’ lives. I became fascinated by the challenges and immense potential that sit at the intersection of life sciences and business. Read More>>> How Financial View Details

21 Mar 2022
Blog Post

The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

patients. My business has a deeply personal aspect for me: I have a progressive, genetic hearing loss. In addition to wearing powerful hearing aids (I was fitted with my first aid at age 12), I lip-read and... View Details

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

individuals, subgroups, and teams perform. Paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1534-0856&volume=15 The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid Author:Werker, Eric D. Publication:In Handbook of Safeguarding Global... View Details