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  • 08 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

805-064 Patrimonio Hoy is a program targeting the housing needs of the low-income population by CEMEX, a major Mexican company and a leading global cement producer. Originally conceived as a project to better understand the customers in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

expertise to improve the lives of children and youth of low-income families in the Washington, D.C., region. Morino is the author of Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity. Alnoor S. Ebrahim is an associate professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

person one rank above them instead of the person one rank below. Last-place aversion suggests that low-income individuals might oppose redistribution because it could differentially help the group just beneath them. Using survey data, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political and economic history of Rwanda, but focuses on the country preceding and after the genocide. A description of government policies since 1994 enables... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

and 20 percent predict the situation won’t change. The Harvard researchers are hoping this report might help spur Washington to get its act together. “We think this is an American issue, not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue or a high-income or View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Endeavor Entrepreneur Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

and a little understood provision in the federal tax code that is implemented at the state level, the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). The relationship is complex because, while the federal government uses the CRA to control bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

surveys, and content analysis, as well as promising newer methods like experiments, agent-based modeling, and cognitive mapping—we hope to provide the kind of brush clearing that will enable the field to move forward methodologically as well. Business and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

its current status as a low-income country to a middle-income one by 2030. “The timeline could be two or three years, or a decade later” While the International Monetary Fund predicted the country could achieve 6-7 percent annual... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

impact investment funds to achieve significant financial returns to scale. This case allows for a competitive analysis of DBL's investment strategy as it seeks to deploy $400m, as well as the opportunity to evaluate a specific investment in a solar power company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

power in Ghana's history. Focuses on Ghana's long history of poor economic performance and intractable poverty, highlighting the challenges of economic development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. The optimal policy increases the probability that low-income children move up the economic ladder, generating a present-value welfare gain of 1.28% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

New York City. It was 2006 and the housing market was peaking but had not yet crashed. Both Rose and Weinstein were experienced developers of low-income housing, the former as CEO of the Jonathan Rose Companies, a national developer, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

these firms.” You Might Also Like: Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone' What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance? Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 13 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

models? A: I am writing a case on Farmacias Similares, a pharmacy chain in Mexico aimed at the low-income sector. Any medicine on its shelf is at least 30 percent cheaper than in traditional drugstores. It also has a medical clinic next... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28

417-051 Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil Vox Capital was the first certified impact investing fund in Brazil. Founded in 2009, it provides early-stage capital for companies offering innovative and scalable solutions to enhance the lives of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

temptations to which much of the rest of the developed world succumbed. At the same time, it created elements of Bolsa Familia, a "family grant," that provided substantial outright payments to low-income families as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

Harris, of Playing2Win Technology can also be used to bridge the asset gap and drive down the cost of programs designed to help low-income families, said HBS professor Peter Tufano (HBS MBA '84), who teaches financial management. Tufano... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

risks of business ownership and relaxing credit constraints," Olds writes in the 2014 paper "Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance." Studying The Social Safety Net Olds grew up on Medicaid, a Federal health insurance program for View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 22 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'? What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance? Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers Feedback or ideas to share?... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

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