Socio-economic Mobility - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2024
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Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Impacts of a Liquidity Shock

By: Patrick Agte, Arielle Bernhardt, Erica M. Field, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol

How do poor entrepreneurs trade off investments in business enterprises versus children's human capital, and how do these choices influence intergenerational socio-economic mobility? To examine this, we exploit experimental variation in household income resulting from... View Details

Keywords: Socio-economic Mobility; Entrepreneurship; Education; Income; Literacy; Poverty

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06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

Finance, scaling an impact investment in Anchorage, Alaska to become the state's largest permanent supportive housing program, and designing and launching an impact fund-of-funds to mobilize passive charitable capital. With an interest in... View Details

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

new part of the country where opportunity and access were more open. Sometimes that path involved significant education—in essence, building social mobility through professional credentials. Sometimes the path involved entrepreneurship.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

Nohria reflected on his time leading the School and how students and faculty mobilized to respond to the pandemic. After all that the world has faced in 2020, it’s easy to forget that you assumed the deanship in the aftermath of an... View Details

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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

inform her engagement in social change.Yuille’s diverse professional formation — federal law clerk, Latin Americanist socio-economic development lawyer, Wall Street corporate transactional attorney, public school teacher, pro bono... View Details

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

by inventory shrinkage and cash shortage. Using two store-level datasets from the convenience store industry, we find that relative wages are negatively associated with employee theft after we control for each store's employee characteristics, monitoring environment,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

and services including computers, handheld devices, servers, and digital entertainment, employed 172,000 people and posted $104 billion in sales in 2007. PSG, one of HP's three major divisions, offered notebook and desktop personal computers, handheld View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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pyramid are usually served by businesses who synchronize value creation for customers with profits for shareholders. That is not the case for customers who are in the bottom quarter of the socio-economic pyramid who cannot afford to pay... View Details

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