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Insights & Advice - Recruiting

fuels first-generation and low-income student success Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels... View Details
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Hire Talent

low-income student success Shoma Simkin 13 Mar 2025 WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 04 Mar 2025 Connect with the relevant industry or location manager to create a personalized hiring strategy.... View Details
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Insights & Advice Blog

what’s valued in their new organizations.” [...] Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin 13 Mar 2025 | Student & Alumni Stories The Ascend Leadership Program at HBS... View Details
  • 15 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson & Bilal Zia; Financial Services
  • 23 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

Keywords: by Peter Tufano & Daniel Schneider; Financial Services
  • Working Paper

The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

By: Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul and Elena Spadini
The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand whether and why skilled and unskilled workers were differentially impacted by the shock, in... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; System Shocks; Labor; Competency and Skills; Development Economics; Uganda
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  • 12 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

clients by offering information sessions, teaching them financial principles and such has a much bigger effect” in terms of growth rates, Di Maggio says. You Might Also Like: Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

McGinn Abstract—Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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State Activism and the Hidden Incentives Behind Bank Acquisitions

By: Christopher Marquis, Doug Guthrie and Juan Almandoz
A number of studies have shown that, as a result of the ambiguity of U.S. legal mandates, organizations have considerable latitude in how they comply with regulations. In this paper, we address how the different agendas of the federal and state governments increase... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Opportunities; Government Legislation; Acquisition; Forecasting and Prediction; Banks and Banking; Motivation and Incentives; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Practices and Processes; Research; United States
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  • May 2024
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Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis

By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu and Rowan P. Clarke
A significant proportion of the world's population has no access to grid-based electricity and so relies on off-grid lighting solutions. Rechargeable lamp technology is gaining popularity as an alternative off-grid lighting model in developing countries. In this paper,... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Behavior; Poverty; Logistics; Business Model; Utilities Industry
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  • 01 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

Something Rare? Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Illustration by HBSWK. Photos from AdobeStock/Michele and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 22 May 2019
  • Blog Post

What is FIELD Global Immersion?

low-income housing in India, develop new financial services for unbanked consumers in Morocco, and determine how to improve access to medical care for patients in Brazil. Once projects are proposed by potential Global Partners, the Global... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 17 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Veteran Spotlight: Rex Willis (MBA 2024)

to serve underprivileged families, particularly youth, in low-income communities. I intend on carrying that torch forward by providing underserved communities, especially those of color, with opportunities to actualize their dreams via... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without controversy. While... View Details
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Finding Talent Opportunities

leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin 13 MAR 2025 The Ascend Leadership Program at HBS provides first-generation and low-income MBA students with... View Details
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Adan Acevedo

civil war. I want to elevate stories from underrepresented groups that need to be told on the big screen and give kids from low-income neighborhoods the opportunity to achieve their wildest dreams – dreams that fly so low that you could... View Details
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Profiles - MBA

the intersection of technology and business: For the past 2 years, I've been building Wave Learning Festival, a 501c3 edtech nonprofit. For low-income K-12 students and schools, we provide free, live, online, peer-to-peer programming and... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

information than the Gini alone can capture. Indeed, each one of the Ortega parameters focuses on different aspects of the income distribution; the first captures the extent to which income is distributed between low-income earners and... View Details
Keywords: by Jon M. Jachimowicz, Kristin Blesch, and Oliver P. Hauser
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Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

people push you up and you’ll continue to get better.” You Might Want to Read 05 May 2025 Meet the Tech Club Shira Amat 13 Mar 2025 Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success Shoma Simkin... View Details