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  • 24 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

seek work once benefits ended, the authors examined a sample of low-income workers who typically have limited access to credit. Using detailed banking data from Earnin, a financial services company that offers workers access to their... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City Year provided a variety of services to a variety of organizations in need. Over its most recent decade, City Year had pivoted to having all corps members serve in low-income public schools to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

segmentation focuses on customer demographics: Will products be designed to appeal to wealthy, middle-market, or low-income customers? For the pharmaceutical business, segmentation is by therapeutic class: Will the firm focus on research... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 12 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

While cancer drugs are typically tested out of major academic medical centers, HIV/AIDS clinical trials are often based at “safety-net” hospitals that serve low-income and minority populations. In addition, there is significantly more... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; 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
  • 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

assignment frictions, which appear to be more severe in lower-income regions. The productivity loss generated by inefficient assignment is equal to 13% of the productivity gap between high- and low-income countries in our sample. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

investment officer, Brian Trelstad, must decide whether or not to fund two for-profit ventures. The first provides clean and accessible shower and toilet facilities in urban areas, serving a critical need for low-income populations—its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

income of the importing country. Because most low-income countries import the bulk of capital goods, our results provide suggestive evidence that capital goods are more expensive in poor countries, consistent with the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

social change leaders. The competition is prestigious; past recipients have achieved tremendous success in their missions, including Teach For America, a nonprofit organization that recruits young college graduates to teach in low-income... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

empirical projects, and experiments—the latter often in conjunction with the Doorways to Dreams Fund, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new financial products for low-income families. My first outlet for teaching the... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

2008, targeted at millions of low-income Indian consumers who did not have access to safe drinking water. The case describes in detail the product development and launch process that required HUL, the $3.5 billion Indian subsidiary, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

of employees to invest in defined contribution plans and of employers to support them. Others worried whether low-income employees or those in small companies would get left behind. But a Fidelity study showed that most employees have... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
  • 25 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

Starbucks; The Nature Conservancy and Georgia-Pacific; Bidwell Training Center, a nonprofit vocational and technical school in Pennsylvania, and Bayer Corporation; and Jumpstart, a Boston-based NPO that prepares low-income preschoolers to... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

policy changes are not essential for these changes to happen. Key policy areas to be addressed are: Access: Ultimately, access to care must be addressed through mandatory health insurance with subsidies for low-income citizens not covered... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

students and their middle class and white counterparts, the gap persists. By age nine, African American and Latino students are on average three grade levels behind, and students from low-income communities are seven times less likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

considered so basic that, regardless of culture, they are accepted as public responsibilities. However, for the low-income populations in developing countries, which constitute the majority of the world, access to these takes place... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the burdensome... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

concurrent with an obesity epidemic, suggesting that low-income communities lacked access not just to food in general, but to healthy foods in particular. Rauch believed he could build a non-profit grocery store model that took advantage... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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