Aid Effectiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2017
News

What Fellowships Make Possible

The foundation of Harvard Business School’s MBA Program is need-blind admissions: a commitment to ensuring that every student, regardless of their background or financial means, is able to attend the School through a generous combination of outright View Details

Keywords: budget; need-blind; Admissions; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Nov 2013
News

Selling Crafts with a Story

craft by employing the powerful effect of storytelling. It's proven powerful enough to put an end to those "pre-work" work meetings. In late 2012, Koss and Paranjape were able to walk away from their day jobs and pursue Brika full time.... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; crafts; hobbies; ecommerce; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Arts, Entertainment

05 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

pressures. Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Humanizing Victims Predicts Intergroup Helping Authors:Amy J. C. Cuddy, Mindi Rock, and Michael I. Norton Publication:Group Processes and Intergroup Relations (in press) Abstract This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

School of Business, to craft the survey and analyze responses. “Firms today are very lean and cash-strapped.” The survey captured a snapshot of the pandemic’s impact on small businesses, including business owners’ perceptions about their prospects for survival and how... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

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 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

and pitches that rely on data and numbers can be more effective in some circumstances, notes the research, which Graeber conducted with Christopher Roth, a professor at the University of Cologne, and Florian Zimmermann, a professor at the... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

features of today's MBA experience. We all know that the effective use of technology is a priority at the School. How is this influencing the MBA Program? Technology is a huge part of the MBA experience. It is something today's students... View Details

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

01 Jun 2005
News

Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster

CURRAN: "The most important thing I learned is that central planning in such situations doesn't work." Courtesy Dan Curran International relief agencies that raced to aid Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh province have a lot to learn from... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

08 May 2007
First Look

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

Web

1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

Calendar (see below). Students receiving scholarship or other financial aid should consult the Financial Aid Office concerning the financial implications of going on leave. US immigration rules do not allow... View Details

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the world's six billion people still live on less than $2 a day; a fifth get by on less than $1. At times, foreign aid has even worsened the plight of the... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

02 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Cassidy Wald Wins Dean's Award for Service to the School and Society

representation in the initiatives prioritized across all HBS departments. DAAG worked with MBA Admissions & Financial Aid to host webinars for prospective students and held in-person disability-awareness events for newly admitted... View Details

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 Jun 2016
News

In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)

live, study, and work in 38 countries in our region. It’s the first time we’ve had such an overseas study program run out of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.” Group effort: The innovationXchange, an international advisory group formed by Bishop to develop... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

alone do not account for these outcomes of the country’s public health system. There are also disparities in how effectively resources are allocated and managed, says Simon DeBere (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), a 2021 HBS Social Enterprise Summer... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

sense to do business with that country. What part of that country is the best trade partner? Who are the best contacts?" Analyzing Data Of course, immigrants most likely to aid trading decisions are those who work at the firm. But because... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2015
First Look

December 1, 2015

put flesh on the bones of independence, the USA and USSR were eager to offer aid and advice to promote their own models. The PRC, suffering the consequences of a century-long tangle with imperialism and decades of war coupled with the... View Details