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Video Clips - Creating Emerging Markets
India, explains his “dharma of business”: to lift as many people out of poverty as he can while also running a profitable company. Duration: 02:27 Dato' Sri Tahir Dato' Sri Tahir Base Of The Pyramid Dato' Sri Tahir, founder of a large...
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- 04 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Political Economy of Bilateral Foreign Aid
- October 2020
- Case
HOPE and Transformational Lending: Netflix Invests in Black Led Banks
By: John D. Macomber and Janice Broome Brooks
Following the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020, the large US corporation Netflix elected to make a "transformational deposit" of $10 million into Hope Credit Union (HCU), a small Black led community development finance institution (CDFI) based in...
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Expectations (6) Performance Improvement (20) Performance Productivity (41) Performance (195) Personal Characteristics (74) Personal Development and Career (172) Personal Finance (45) Perspective (6) Planning (19) Policy (40) Political Elections (26) Pollution and...
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Raymond P. Kluender
Ray Kluender is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, teaching Entrepreneurial Finance to second-year MBA students.
He studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how public policy,... View Details
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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Food & Agriculture Innovation will reduce agriculture impacts and help farmers adapt The Green Revolution in the 20th century dramatically increased crop yields and reduced global poverty by half. [25] These...
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- May 2018
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The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness
By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley and Michael I. Norton
Two samples of more than 4,000 millionaires reveal two primary findings. First, only at high levels of wealth—in excess of $8 million (Study 1) and $10 million (Study 2)—are wealthier millionaires happier than millionaires with lower levels of wealth, though these...
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Donnelly, Grant Edward, Tianyi Zheng, Emily Haisley, and Michael I. Norton. "The Amount and Source of Millionaires' Wealth (Moderately) Predicts Their Happiness." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 44, no. 5 (May 2018): 684–699.
Sandra J. Sucher
Sandra Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and an internationally recognized trust researcher. The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It, is her third book. It is based on two... View Details
- January 2007 (Revised April 2011)
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Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico
By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Farmacias Similares, serving Mexico's low-income sector, grew to $600 million sales and 3,400 drugstores while deep reforms to help the poor swept the public health system. Adjacent to each store, for $2 per visit, medical clinics provided access to doctors for 2.3...
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Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Health Care and Treatment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Poverty;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Retail Industry;
Mexico
Chu, Michael, and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 307-092, January 2007. (Revised April 2011.)
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without controversy. While many hailed it as a way to end world...
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- 25 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
utilizes their MBA skills to bring significant value and capacity to both the business and its community. Leading into his first year at HBS, McClain was a Summer Fellow with the Harlem Children’s Zone, an education non-profit that aims to end intergenerational View Details
- April 2009
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Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi
By: Rawi Abdelal
By the turn of the century, oil had already made the tiny emirate of Abu Dhabi rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams. A sovereign wealth fund, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), has invested extra oil revenues abroad for more than thirty years and amassed a...
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Development Economics;
Financial Management;
Investment Funds;
Sovereign Finance;
Wealth;
Diversification;
Abu Dhabi
Abdelal, Rawi. "Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi." Geopolitics 14, no. 2 (April 2009): 317–327.
- 01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
success alone. In a country where one-third of the population lives beneath the poverty line, he is an advocate of political and economic reform and a champion of investing in the bottom of the business pyramid. "I believe business should...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Game On
Plus in Sarasota, where more than half the students live below the poverty line. A pickleball player herself, Kahler was granted three sets by the foundation and launched a before-school club for her fifth graders. “Students cannot thrive...
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Database AttributesCategories Consumers Race & Ethnicity Multigenerational Wealth & Poverty Consumer Industries Keywords consumer trends fashion credit cards loans personal products food leisure products consumer demographics Latinos...
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- 06 Jul 2023
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Home Economics
In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve formed with the assistance of...
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April White
- 29 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Entrepreneurs, Firms, and Global Wealth since 1850
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by Geoffrey G. Jones
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Consumer Behavior Emerging Markets India Database AttributesCoverage1996 - CurrentCategories Macroeconomic Data Global Coverage Local & Micro Data Doing Business In Consumers Wealth & Poverty Policy & Regulation Keywords city-level data...
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Time Use and Happiness of Millionaires: Evidence from the Netherlands
By: Paul Smeets, A.V. Whillans, Rene Bekkers and Michael I. Norton
How do the very wealthy spend their time, and how does time use relate to well-being? In two studies in the Netherlands, the affluent (N=863, N=690) and the general population (N=1232, N=306) spent time in surprisingly similar ways, such as by spending the same amount...
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Keywords:
Time And Wellbeing;
Millionaires;
Social Class;
Wealth;
Happiness;
Demographics;
Netherlands
Smeets, Paul, A.V. Whillans, Rene Bekkers, and Michael I. Norton. "Time Use and Happiness of Millionaires: Evidence from the Netherlands." Social Psychological & Personality Science 11, no. 3 (April 2020): 295–307.
- 29 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity
hurt the economy, and, consequently, how an economic downturn can lead to more mental health problems. Click to watch. Here are some key points in the five-minute video: At 1:25 Ashraf talks about the vicious cycle that can happen when View Details
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by Carmen Nobel