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- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
approaching them. Somebody might approach a poor subsistence farmer in Uganda to say, "We want to give you some agricultural aid. We want to give you a loan." There again, why is advocacy important? Because even in that case,...
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by Martha Lagace
- February 2021
- Case
Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Frank V. Cespedes and Michael Norris
In 2020, Mike Heyink and Maya Stewart, co-founders of the Pay-as-you-Go Solar company Yellow were considering how to grow their startup. They had achieved some success in their first market, Malawi, and had recently entered Uganda, where business was slower. What did...
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Solar Energy;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Alternative Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Green Technology;
Salesforce Management;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Energy Industry;
Africa;
South Africa;
Malawi;
Uganda
Applegate, Lynda M., Frank V. Cespedes, and Michael Norris. "Yellow Digital Retailers: Providing Solar Electricity to Transform Rural Africa." Harvard Business School Case 821-041, February 2021.
- Research Summary
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market finishing number one in the world...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
Tobin Office chairs Watertown, Mass. Vocational Advancement Center The Center employs special-needs adults to carry out various administrative tasks, which Gogan says require better seating support than the chairs nonprofits can typically afford. Stacking chairs View Details
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Dan Morrell
- March 2011
- Case
Uganda: The Constitution of Development
By: Catherine S. M. Duggan and Alexander Roehrkasse
Duggan, Catherine S. M., and Alexander Roehrkasse. "Uganda: The Constitution of Development." Harvard Business School Case 711-052, March 2011.
- March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
International Rivers Network and the Bujagali Dam Project (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Supplements the (A) case.
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Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "International Rivers Network and the Bujagali Dam Project (B)." Harvard Business School Case 204-139, March 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- 2001
- Working Paper
Refugees in Arua District: A Human Security Analysis
By: Lucy Hovil and Eric D. Werker
Hovil, Lucy, and Eric D. Werker. "Refugees in Arua District: A Human Security Analysis." Refugee Law Project Working Paper, No. 3, September 2001.
- Career Coach
Nathan Lasche
Nathan interned in Product Management at Amazon and was the Co-President of the HBS TechMedia club. Prior to HBS, he spent two years in Uganda starting the Clinton Foundation HIV / AIDS Initiative’s country office, worked in feature film...
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- 18 Jul 2008
- Other Presentation
Regional Competitiveness: Creating an East African Economic Strategy
Competitiveness presentation delivered during the East African Business Summit in Kampala, Uganda.
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Porter, Michael E. "Regional Competitiveness: Creating an East African Economic Strategy." East Africa Business Summit, Kampala, Uganda, July 18, 2008.
- March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Supplement
International Rivers Network and the Bujagali Dam Project (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Spreadsheet to (9-204-083). Download only.
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- 22 Jun 2012
- News
At the i-lab, a New Use for Silk
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was radical: The nonprofit would...
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April White
- 2010
- Working Paper
Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal
By: Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James and Michael I. Norton
This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). Analyzing survey data from 136 countries, we show that...
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Spending;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Happiness;
Motivation and Incentives;
Welfare;
Uganda;
Canada
Aknin, Lara B., Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, Robert Biswas-Diener, Imelda Kemeza, Paul Nyende, Claire Ashton-James, and Michael I. Norton. "Prosocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-038, September 2010.
- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
How HBS Changed My Life
August 13th, a group of Harvard students and I went to Uganda and Rwanda where I spoke with the presidents of both countries about our research and the implications for their countries and the continent as a whole. In addition to...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Serve as Consultants
Twelve HBS students spent their January Term as volunteer consultants to USAID projects in Bangladesh, Jordan, Morocco and Uganda. Only in its second year, the student-led Global Impact Experience program, the brainchild of Rich Chung (MBA ’10), screened more than 100...
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- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
his family. In the 1980s, Adem T. Bunkeddeko’s (MBA 2017) parents escaped from war-torn Uganda to a tiny one-bedroom apartment in Queens. There they raised their children and helped other friends and family acclimate to this new country....
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April White
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
Yusuf Keshavjee Some years ago, Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) was driving near Lake Victoria in Kenya when he noticed vendors by the roadside selling honey. Not an unusual sight in Africa, but it got Keshavjee to thinking about issues facing local farmers: branding,...
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- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
power, they nationalized all our assets. To date, they have not given them back. We fretted for 10 years. However, we felt that the loss is ours as we are losing the business of 70 million people—equal to the population of Kenya and View Details