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- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Working PapersFemale Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines Authors:Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin Abstract Female 'empowerment' has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2014
- Panel Discussion
Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors
By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Keywords:
CSR;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Outsourced Production;
Outsourcing;
Sustainability;
Sustainability Management;
Auditing;
Audit Quality;
Gender;
Conflicts Of Interest;
Bias;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
China;
India;
Pakistan;
Bangladesh;
Mexico;
Brazil;
Viet Nam;
Indonesia;
Philippines;
Sri Lanka;
Taiwan;
South Korea
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors." Elevate Limited Webinar, July 17, 2014. (Webinar coordinated by Elevate Limited.)
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Philippines, found himself at a crucial turning point in his young company’s development. In just three years, Zalora had come from entering the Philippine fashion retail industry as an unknown quantity to becoming a household name across...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
the Middle East, Armenia, and the Philippines have buoyed sales and enabled Scharfman to double the size of his workforce to 100 over the last five years. “Our selling point is that we make ‘homemade,’ ethnically authentic cheeses, but...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
elected officials.” “Where are the grown-ups?” asked Gadiesh, referring to the lack of 21st-century institutions needed to lead in government and business. Zobel described how wealth disparities in the Philippines create popular distrust...
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- March 2022 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Perch
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Stacy Straaberg and Julia Kelley
In May 2021, Perch CEO Chris Bell needed to decide whether his e-commerce aggregator company, which bought and scaled Amazon Marketplace brands, should acquire up to three acquisition targets. The prospective acquisitions, Web Deals Direct, HomeCo, and Future Brands,...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Making;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Decisions;
Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Integration;
E-commerce;
Consumer Products Industry;
Retail Industry;
Technology Industry;
North America;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
California;
Asia;
Philippines
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a...
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- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108010 Manila Water Company Harvard Business School Case 508-004 In 1997, the Philippines government privatized its water utility in the metropolitan...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
the Philippines that showed poor women would save 81 percent more money if they could deposit it in an account with withdrawal restrictions. An early design focused on saving money for medical expenses, requiring a doctor's note before...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
to Officer Candidate School. Two years later, on a 4 a.m. drive to a training exercise while stationed in Hawaii, he clicked on NPR and heard reports of the 9/11 attacks. Soon after, his unit was deployed to the Philippines to fight the...
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
times, and daytime program twice. Both are records. He has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Philippines and Vienna. Before becoming a professor, he owned and operated two manufacturing firms and one...
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
26 times, and daytime program twice. Both are records. In 2016 he was a volunteer professor at the United States Military Academy. He has taught in Africa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Philippines and Vienna....
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
initiative between MIT and the World Bank, he was sent to the Philippines to work with an informal settlement whose 12,000 residents were to be displaced for a resort. “It was a huge aha moment for me,” Mawilmada recalls. “This time, I...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
approach to food. We need to think about how we strengthen our SMEs because they are the bedrock of innovation in the ecosystem globally and [in] Nigeria. Nigeria needs to commit to feeding itself and the rest of Africa.” JUNE 22 Among the HBS alumni in the View Details
- March 2019
- Case
Wattpad
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
How to run a platform to match four million writers of stories to 75 million readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers...
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Keywords:
Platform Businesses;
Creative Industries;
Publishing;
Data Science;
Machine Learning;
Collaborative Filtering;
Women And Leadership;
Managing Data Scientists;
Big Data;
Recommender Systems;
Digital Platforms;
Information Technology;
Intellectual Property;
Analytics and Data Science;
Publishing Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Canada;
United States;
Philippines;
Viet Nam;
Turkey;
Indonesia;
Brazil
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Wattpad." Harvard Business School Case 919-413, March 2019.
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
is very different, so you have to design based on the jobs that are satisfying for the Chinese consumer. Philippines is like a social side of it. At that time, I remember doing observations and literally it would be a two-hour wash...
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- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53993 Debt Traps? Market Vendors and Moneylender Debt in India and the Philippines By: Karlan, Dean, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Benjamin N. Roth Abstract—A debt trap...
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Sean Silverthorne