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- 6 Apr 2006
- Other Presentation
Economic Strategy for Newark
OpportunityNewark (ON) is a market-driven economic development initiative to increase the competitiveness of Newark as a business location, stimulate business development, and better connect residents to job opportunities.
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Porter, Michael E. "Economic Strategy for Newark." OpportunityNewark, Newark, NJ, April 6, 2006.
- 28 Sep 2003
- Other Presentation
Competitiveness and Economic Development of Gulf and Middle Eastern Countries
Competitiveness presentation at Middle East Petrotech 2003, Bahrain.
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Porter, Michael E. "Competitiveness and Economic Development of Gulf and Middle Eastern Countries." Middle East Petrotech, Bahrain, September 28, 2003.
- February 2013 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Phu My Hung
By: John Macomber and Dawn H. Lau
Privately held city development promoters decide whether to partner on next phase or go it alone in a 20-year, 4000-acre project. Set outside of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this decades-long project led by two Taiwanese families reshaped and built the economic...
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Macomber, John, and Dawn H. Lau. "Phu My Hung." Harvard Business School Case 213-098, February 2013. (Revised February 2014.)
- February 2013 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
King Abdullah Economic City in 2009: Population Drivers and Cash Flow
By: John D. Macomber
CEO of high profile new economic city in Saudi Arabia must decide how to allocate limited investment funds across projects under duress. Issues include understanding core economic drivers, planning infrastructure investment and return, attracting multinationals, energy...
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- December 2013
- Article
The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine Creativity
By: Roy Y.J. Chua
Intercultural tensions and conflicts are inevitable in the global workplace. This paper introduces the concept of ambient cultural disharmony—indirect experience of intercultural tensions and conflicts in individuals' immediate social environment—and demonstrates how...
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Chua, Roy Y.J. "The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine Creativity." Academy of Management Journal 56, no. 6 (December 2013): 1545–1577.
- October 2012
- Article
Giving Time Gives You Time
By: Cassie Mogilner, Zoe Chance and Michael I. Norton
Four experiments reveal a counterintuitive solution to the common problem of feeling that one does not have enough time: giving some of it away. Although people's objective amount of time cannot be increased (there are only 24 hours in a day), this research...
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Keywords:
Time Perception;
Well-being;
Volunteering;
Prosocial Behavior;
Helping;
Time Management;
Welfare
Mogilner, Cassie, Zoe Chance, and Michael I. Norton. "Giving Time Gives You Time." Psychological Science 23, no. 10 (October 2012): 1233–1238.
- July 1998
- Supplement
The Role of Business in Education and Welfare Reform: A Public-Private Dialogue on America's Future, Video
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "The Role of Business in Education and Welfare Reform: A Public-Private Dialogue on America's Future, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 399-509, July 1998.
- Article
Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We study unemployment benefit provision when the family also provides social insurance. In the benchmark case, more generous State transfers crowd out family risk-sharing one-for-one. An extension gives the State an advantage in enforcing transfers through taxes...
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Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State." Economic Journal 112, no. 477 (February 2002): 481–503.
- Web
Shimon Attie Night Watch (Victor with Freedom Tower), Hudson River 2018 | About
Attie © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. “Night Watch was a floating media installation that traveled in the waterways around New York City during the fall of 2018. Featuring a 20 foot-wide high-resolution...
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- June 2017
- Case
MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid
By: Lynda M. Applegate, José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
In January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income...
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Keywords:
Base Of The Pyramid;
Social Capitalism;
Housing;
Emerging Markets;
Social Enterprise;
Society;
Wealth and Poverty;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Construction Industry;
Mexico
Applegate, Lynda M., José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta, and Aldo Sesia. "MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid." Harvard Business School Case 817-073, June 2017.
- 2005
- Book
Building Assets Building Credit: Creating Wealth in Low-Income Communities
By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky
Retsinas, Nicolas P. and Eric S. Belsky, eds. Building Assets Building Credit: Creating Wealth in Low-Income Communities. Brookings Institution Press, 2005.
- September 2022
- Article
The Impact of Financial Assistance Programs on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Kaiser Permanente
By: Alyce S. Adams, Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Jinglin Wang, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Most hospitals have financial assistance programs for low-income patients. We use administrative data from Kaiser Permanente to study the effects of financial assistance on health care utilization. Using a regression discontinuity design based on an income threshold...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Utilization;
Financial Assistance;
Health Care and Treatment;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Health Industry
Adams, Alyce S., Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Jinglin Wang, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin. "The Impact of Financial Assistance Programs on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Kaiser Permanente." American Economic Review: Insights 4, no. 3 (September 2022): 389–407.
- May 2019
- Teaching Note
Universal Basic Income, Job Guarantees, or None of the Above?
By: William R. Kerr and Jordan Bach-Lombardo
Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-035.
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Keywords:
UBI;
Job Guarantee;
Public Policy;
EITC;
Employment;
Labor;
Social Issues;
Income;
Governance;
Policy;
Welfare
- 09 Oct 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Marry Rich, Poor Girl: Investigating the Effects of Sex Selection on Intrahousehold Outcomes in India
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by Reshmaan Hussam
- September 2009 (Revised September 2012)
- Case
United Way
By: Allen S. Grossman and Cathy Ross
After United Way CEO Brian Gallagher began shifting the organization's focus from old-school fundraising to community impact, Gallagher and local leaders like Elise Bulk, CEO of the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, faced a series of challenges regarding how to best...
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Keywords:
Investment Funds;
Business or Company Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Civil Society or Community;
Social Issues;
Alignment;
Los Angeles
Grossman, Allen S., and Cathy Ross. "United Way." Harvard Business School Case 310-014, September 2009. (Revised September 2012.)
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
little to do with each other. This is a huge problem. A sustainable society requires that all companies be committed to sustainable strategies. Increasing social expectations regarding a company’s commitment to sustainability mean that...
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Robert G. Eccles
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
Many institutions promote and even mandate moral behavior and values among their members, but how they do it differs greatly. Some organizations such as religious groups may proscribe very specifically what is acceptable behavior—think the Ten Commandments. But others...
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- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
Summing Up The current global recession has, judging from responses to this month's column, many origins, among them housing and credit. All, of course, are traceable to human responses to both perceived opportunities and calamities, which in turn have been engineered...
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by Jim Heskett
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
Microfinance—essentially small loans that help impoverished individuals create jobs, small businesses, and stronger communities—may offer a window on new methods for widening access to healthcare for the poor. Led by Harvard Business School senior lecturer Michael Chu...
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- Book Review
Review of Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence, by Jordan Goodman
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn, Nancy F. "Review of Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence, by Jordan Goodman." Journal of Economic History 55, no. 4 (December 1995): 968–971.