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- 12 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Public Action for Public Goods
- February 2010 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool
By: Mukti Khaire and Kathleen L. McGinn
The case is about the decision to convert a not-for-profit organization into a for-profit company. SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (STFC), which is part of a larger non-profit organization—the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)—works to improve the livelihoods of...
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Cooperative Ownership;
For-Profit Firms;
Gender;
Business Model;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Arts;
Entrepreneurship;
Economic Growth;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Consumer Products Industry;
India
Khaire, Mukti, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "SEWA Trade Facilitation Center: Changing the Spool." Harvard Business School Case 810-044, February 2010. (Revised June 2011.)
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
of a poor person, those fees would be very difficult to justify,” Lal says. “If you can make the service free, that is the best way to initiate adoption, and then you have to think about how you make your money. What are some other...
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Overview
Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
As Ban Ki-moon begins his tenure as secretary-general of the United Nations, the world's poor continue to cry out for help and hope. One-sixth of the world's population lives in "deep poverty"—generally defined as surviving on...
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by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can...
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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
deemed socially acceptable (or not) for others to purchase. As they find, lower-income people are afforded a much narrower range of "permissibility." “We seem to believe the poor have more basic basic needs." Such a notion...
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by Rachel Layne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Lenders, and the Politics of Household Debt Catherine S.M. Duggan and Alexander RoehrkasseHarvard Business School Case 710-048 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710048-PDF-ENG eHealthpoint: Healthcare for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
HBS; Shalaka Joshi Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Transform the lives of 1 million rural poor in India by creating a market based solution to increase the productivity of their cattle. 2008 Business Track...
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- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
speculates, apprentices are given more discrete tasks that are easier to follow. That doesn’t mean that the latter fields aren’t candidates for apprenticeship, he adds, only that extra care must be taken to provide additional structure. Not all students succeed...
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by Michael Blanding
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Past Issues - Alumni
2013 Sizing Up Social Impact Quantifying results in the social sector comes down to the tricky work of measuring social good A Healthy Profit How do you make health care for the poor affordable and self-sustaining? Make public health...
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- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
South Africa; and M-PESA, an initiative launched by the mobile network operator Safaricom (in conjunction with Vodafone) to offer a new type of financial service to the poor residents of Kenya. Ultimately, the more successful of the two,...
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- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
benefits from the company's low prices. Wal-Mart operates 2-1/2 times as much selling space per inhabitant in the poorest one-third of states as in the richest one-third. And within these states, it focuses on poorer districts and consumers. Without Wal-Mart,...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
2021 I’m a vegetarian. I love escaping into the woods to live off the grid, sleep on the dirt, and eat over an open fire. I’m obsessive about minimizing waste and buying second hand. These are things my dad did too, but not by choice. My dad grew up in View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
offering a brand of all-natural facial moisturizing oils derived from argan oil, obtained from southern Morocco’s argan tree. The company will work with the rural poor to build sustainable business around...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a path out of poverty through entrepreneurship
Annie Bertrand (MBA 2007) tallks about helping create the India School Fund to integrate entrepreneurship skills with other educational goals to give poor rural Indian children a path out of poverty....
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
cost of care. Farmer said that he has learned from his work in very poor countries that “comprehensive rural health care must go beyond the purely clinical by also providing socioeconomic support. Nutrition,...
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- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently,...
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