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- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial View Details
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
borrowers with more guidance when it comes to managing family finances? No one would argue against better consumer education and more financial literacy for Americans, in general. But the system itself caused many of these problems. We...
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- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
helped create tens of thousands of products representing more than 150 countries. The designers share in the revenues and the company offers literacy programming to its manufacturers. “For me, what I wanted to do the most is question how...
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Jill Radsken
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
financial literacy programs for teachers and students, as well as many other educational opportunities. “Education was the bridge to a better life for me,” observes Magwegwe, whose own dreams of going to college in the early 1990s were,...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
Bagley: Legal literacy should be a priority for managers. In her new book, Winning Legally: How to Use the Law to Create Value, Marshal Resources, and Manage Risk (HBS Press), Associate Professor Constance E. Bagley contends that managers...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
intranet. Clark outlined what he sees as the four aspects of leadership: strong values and high standards, a global perspective, an entrepreneurial spirit, and literacy in information technology. "We teach with the express purpose of...
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Susan Young
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
that older adults aren't always fluent in the latest technology. So elder adults may need to just learn it a little bit differently. Digital literacy, I think, is an incredibly important opportunity in this area. There are countries that offer digital View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
your dependency of human labor. So, even in the face of a massive migration, your business still can operate at some basic level. But we were talking about offering automation as a perk—offering robots as a perk—to their employees because we believe automation View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Cummins, he helped establish India's first college of engineering for women, and at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly a million teachers in India to use computers. He's...
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- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
communities throughout the United States to inspire young people to read. Visa operates the world's leading consumer credit card payment system. Although there is no obvious connection between the credit card business and literacy...
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by James Austin
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
about making money, but about managing it. "Financial literacy is not something that exists in the inner city," he said. Foxworth said that any conversation about working hard and staying in school must be framed in terms of...
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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
Netta Barak-Corren, Elizabeth Linos, Elspeth Kirkman, and Sean Robinson Abstract—Roughly 20% of adults in the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) lack basic numeracy and literacy skills. In the UK, many colleges...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
businesses. He had a long association with the Literacy Volunteers of New York City and currently serves on the board of the Volunteer Consulting Group. Kiechel lives with his wife, Eugenia Dunstan, and their son in Hoboken,New Jersey;...
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- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
establish a platform of global literacy that generally does not come in our basic educations. Andy Wu To start off the summer, I just finished Edge: Turing Adversity into Advantage by Professor Laura Huang, my HBS colleague, co-author,...
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- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Increasingly, the case method is being used to teach sophisticated techniques like valuation, forecasting, and competitive analysis. These techniques are essential to modern business literacy and are required for employment at investment...
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by David A. Garvin
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low levels of literacy that many...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
overview of approaches to teaching literacy in grades kindergarten through third grade, as well as the assessment and accountability landscape in U.S. public education. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- October 2014
- Case
Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference
By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond...
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Diversity Management;
Corporate Values;
Competitiveness;
Demographics;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Diversity;
Ethnicity;
Gender;
Literacy;
Nationality;
Race;
Residency;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Culture;
Economic Growth;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Immigration;
Employee Relationship Management;
Civil Society or Community;
Manufacturing Industry;
Construction Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe;
Germany;
Russia;
Turkey
Rose, Clayton, Jerome Lenhardt, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference." Harvard Business School Case 315-016, October 2014.
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
intentionally addressed. As the economic environment changed 18 months ago, we immediately embedded into our all our apprenticeships—accessible to all apprentices—modules on financial literacy and everything from how and why you should...
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