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  • February 2018 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Nancy Hua Dai
CEO Zhang Ruimin must plan how to accelerate the growth of self-managed microenterprises. Platforms were Haier’s business platforms operating in five major sectors: white goods transformation, investment and incubation, financial holdings, real estate, and cultural... View Details
Keywords: China; Microenterprise; Appliances; Platform; Change; Innovation; Opportunities; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Transformation; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; China
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  • February 2019
  • Teaching Note

Haier in the U.S.: Transforming GE Appliances

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
Chinese appliance company Haier's 2016 acquisition of iconic GE Appliances ushered in strategic and structural changes to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the U.S. company, and to help it grow. Haier, which had a model designed to bring the company closer... View Details
Keywords: Iconic Brands; Appliances; Digital; Innovation; Entrepreneur; Microenterprise; Management; Entrepreneurship; Transformation; Innovation and Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China
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  • September 2018
  • Case

Haier in the U.S.: Transforming GE Appliances

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
Chinese appliance company Haier's 2016 acquisition of iconic GE Appliances (GEA) ushered in strategic and structural changes to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the U.S. company and to help it grow. Haier, which had a model designed to bring the company... View Details
Keywords: Iconic Brands; Appliances; Digital; Innovation; Entrepreneur; Microenterprise; Management; Entrepreneurship; Transformation; Innovation and Management; Acquisition; Consumer Products Industry; United States; China
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  • Article

Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship Among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India

By: Erica Field, Rohini Pande, John Papp and Natalia Rigol
Do the repayment requirements of the classic microfinance contract inhibit investment in high-return but illiquid business opportunities among the poor? Using a field experiment, we compare the classic contract which requires that repayment begin immediately after loan... View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Poverty; Development Economics; Contracts
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  • September 2019
  • Article

Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital Among Female Microentrepreneurs

By: Arielle Bernhardt, Erica Field, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol
Multiple field experiments report positive financial returns to capital shocks for male and not female microentrepreneurs. But these analyses overlook the fact that female entrepreneurs often reside with male entrepreneurs. Using data from experiments in India, Sri... View Details
Keywords: Capital Return; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Household; Capital
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  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

  Working PapersWalking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman, and Markus Nöth Abstract We study the framing effects of communication in multiparty bargaining. Communication has been shown to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

and economic growth; John Sutton of the London School of Economics on industrial development; and Chris Woodruff of the University of California, San Diego on remittances and microenterprises in Mexico. Although the colloquia was... View Details
Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

economy and brings food to the table through microenterprise - selling oranges, repairing shoes, making utensils out of scrap metal. We provide access to credit that those people can't otherwise get. Over the last five years, we've... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

self-managed microenterprises. Platforms were Haier’s business platforms operating in five major sectors: white goods transformation, investment and incubation, financial holdings, real estate, and cultural industry. Platform owners incubated View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World

parents busy, they are delighted with the rewards and responsibilities of raising a child. The energetic preschooler offers a very different set of challenges for Costan than did the World Bank, where she'd spent a decade working on energy projects, setting up loans... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
  • Student-Profile

Rowan Clarke

development nonprofit, to research solar microenterprises in Rwanda. In partnership with IPA—and as a principal investigator on several projects—Rowan investigated the impact and efficacy of business development strategies in African... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

improve the economic and social well-being of low-income people by helping them create sustainable businesses. The diverse microenterprises she worked with included oil seed extraction, a sewing school, farming activities, dairy... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Andrea Silbert

coffee, banana, and textile businesses, Silbert developed a strong interest in microenterprise and arrived at Soldiers Field eager to expand her knowledge. “Initially, I had a hard time trying to share my experiences with others,” she... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

the entrepreneur" so the microenterprise has no chance to grow. In addition, people have to cope with fluctuations in inflation, infrastructure failures, and the lack of a delivery system. In short, he said, "the poor pay more... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Reaching Out

microenterprise program for poor women and girls founded by Nundy's mother, that Nundy met Suchismita, whose successful trip to the bank became the talk of her village. While some fellows elect to enter the private sector after... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance