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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty, frustration, and lack of hope” that... View Details
- 27 Oct 2003
- News
Pitting Markets vs. Poverty
- 03 May 2013
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Entrepreneurship: One Answer to Poverty
- 04 Jul 2005
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Will-Power, Poverty and Financial Decision-Making
- 27 Jul 2016
- News
Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
Margaret Crotty (MBA 2000) is CEO of Partnership with Children, which provides counseling services and family support to public schools in New York City. In this interview, she reflects on the influences that put her on this path. “Two of the biggest influences in my... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- News
Finding a Path Out of Poverty
Helping people improve their lives is of utmost importance to Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013), and he’s using a nonprofit education center, Inspire Belief, to lift young people in South Africa’s poorest communities out of poverty and set... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
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Finding a Path out of Poverty
Magwegwe, and now that he’s found personal success, he’s using a nonprofit organization, Inspire Belief, to lift others—especially young people in South Africa’s poorest communities—out of poverty and set them on the path to find their... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Jan 2010
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The innovation cure for poverty
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
all residents,” he notes. Majors emphasizes that he and his colleagues are careful to “listen first and talk later.” “Each neighborhood’s context and assets are unique. There is no cookie-cutter solution. Many clients have been battling View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Oct 2014
- News
A passion for alleviating poverty and inequality
Patricio (“Pato”) Bichara (MBA 2015) is passionate about the need to alleviate poverty and inequality in his native Mexico and the role he expects to play in this challenge. (Published October 2014) View Details
- 07 May 2009
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Harvard think tank addresses societal concerns, poverty
- 30 Mar 2018
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
cookie-cutter approach. Many of our partners have been battling poverty and crime in their cities for decades. Our job is to listen and offer advice that will help them get the results they want.” (Published March 2018) View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
limited ability to scale up and have broad-based impact. Vikram Gandhi (MBA 1989) is working to change that by creating investments that can be self-sustaining. “India has 400 million people within the poverty line,” says Gandhi. “While... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 29 Jan 2016
- News
What Data Can Do to Fight Poverty
- 25 Aug 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
Vikram Gandhi (MBA 1989) started Asha Impact to bring together successful business leaders and entrepreneurs to help India’s poor with affordable housing, financial inclusion, and access to energy. “India has 400 million people within the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Creating a path out of poverty through entrepreneurship
Annie Bertrand (MBA 2007) tallks about helping create the India School Fund to integrate entrepreneurship skills with other educational goals to give poor rural Indian children a path out of poverty. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
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Research Brief: Ending the Legacy of Poverty
Scott Duke Kominers (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Scott Duke Kominers (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Income inequality over multiple generations is not just the result of wealthy families passing down money—it’s how those families spend their money, namely on their... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
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Investing in India’s Nonprofits to Overcome Poverty Sustainably
Khushboo Maheshwari (MBA 2012) is new initiatives leader of The/Nudge Foundation and director and head of N/Core, which support nonprofits working on problems related to poverty in India. In this interview, she describes N/Core’s mission... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
As president of Eos Foundation, Andrea Silbert (AB 1986, MBA 1991, MPA 1992) invests charitable dollars to help fight poverty and hunger in Massachusetts. In 2007 Silbert became president of the Boston-based philanthropic grant-making... View Details