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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
economic development. Binagwaho explained that rolling back disease by fighting poverty — and vice versa — is at the core of public-health policy in Rwanda; sweeping government legislation specifically supports and enhances that broad... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
abandon their ethics to get it.” When applied to individuals, the question prompted an interesting exchange between Sandeep and Phillippe Gouamba regarding the effect of wealth and poverty on the tendency of managers to employ super... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
A BETTER MOUSETRAP: At a Magazine Luiza virtual showroom, sales staff use computers to help customers make their purchases. Photo COURTESY MAGAZINE LUIZA The inspiration for a new case can strike at any time. For HBS associate professor Frances X. Frei, the View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
University's most influential professors and the author of numerous books and publications including On Competition (HBSP 1998) and co-author of Can Japan Compete? (Perseus Press, 2000), told the audience that it's time to look at inner... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
and opportunities of their times for more than 200 years, from the economic boom and social challenges of industrialization to what has been described as the promise, peril, and unrealized potential of the 21st century. The language and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Vivian Lu (MBA '95) has witnessed more than her share of harsh realities while working in the Third World, among them the gruesome sights of war-torn Somalia and the terrible effects of poverty in Tanzania. Nevertheless, her experiences... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
participants, the income earned from honey production often makes the difference between living below or above the poverty line. When not helping his fellow Kenyans boost their incomes and satisfy their palates, Keshavjee also makes sure... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
coauthored two books. But his longest sustained commitment has been to help public and private decision-makers more fully understand the causes of black poverty in the United States and underdevelopment in Africa and the Afro-Latin world.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
feels like a fairly traumatic time in world history as a result of the pandemic, increasing vectors of inequality, and the looming threat of climate change. And at this moment, business is playing a strangely two-headed role. On the one... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2014
poverty for some 10,000 young people—and counting. Chertavian visiting a Year Up grad at HBS Chertavian visiting a Year Up grad at HBS Chertavian playing ping pong with one of his three children Chertavian playing ping pong with one of... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
cancer at MD Anderson Cancer Center. To assess cost, we used Professor Bob Kaplan's time driven activity based costing (TDABC) method. We compared this data from MD Anderson, a large academic comprehensive cancer center, to Chicago... View Details
- 10 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing
agriculture, SELCO’s innovations empower underserved groups, including women and people with disabilities, to build resilient micro businesses, promoting both poverty alleviation and climate adaptation. At the entrepreneurs’ fair... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Leanne Huebner (MBA 1997) was just out of college, working at her first job and volunteering her free time with foster children when a little girl asked: “Will you adopt me?” Just 22 and single, Huebner wasn’t in a position to raise... View Details
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
close to first, second, and third cousins. It was very common to have family gatherings of 50+. Moving to the U.S. in 2010 was tough, but because I had attended boarding school, I was ready for the new challenge. What brought you to HBS? Kevin: I was at an inflection... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
needed. For example, a 2023 report from the Global Center for Adaptation suggests that over $100 billion per year is needed to invest in infrastructure, weather forecasting, and protecting agriculture in Africa to address both poverty and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
percent of Americans have no retirement savings, and that by 2030, some 72 million American retirees will be living below the poverty line. “The pandemic has shown just how unstable things can be, how quickly it can happen, and how we... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
fanatical,” he recalls. “All I thought about was enabling young people to go from poverty to a professional career in one year.” Upon graduation, he moved to London, the hometown of his new wife, Kate, where he ran marketing for a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well as mechanisms of tradition... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
unaffected countries finds a substantial portfolio reallocation towards the former. This effect cannot be explained by several potential alternative hypotheses, including differential changes to the preferences of American investors, differential changes in investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
access to the carbon market for businesses, especially those in the Global South. Orisa AI - Sana Mojarradi (MBA 2025) - Orisa AI is the copilot for emergency response managers in times of crisis Rehydrate - Jake Sortor (MBA 2025), Connor... View Details