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- 24 Apr 2014
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Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money...
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- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
- 01 Dec 2015
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Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
for individuals to save money safely, transfer funds inexpensively, and lift themselves out of poverty. So what is it that can make a much-needed service flourish? After studying 10 View Details
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
several hundred billion dollars every year in tax revenues due to abusive transfer pricing (see sidebar, above). Says Baker, “Most multinationals deliberately intend to evade some of their taxes on some of their transactions, using View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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America the Unequal
people with zero net worth, and even negative net worth, can still believe that they are living the American dream, doing “better” than their parents did while keeping up with the Joneses. Second, poorer Americans’ belief in social View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
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Are Stock Buybacks Starving the Economy?
- 25 Aug 2014
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Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981
value of education, changing the world through entrepreneurship, and finding meaning by helping others. Dahod’s first taste of entrepreneurship came as a teenager, when he helped his physician father produce and distribute medication that he had formulated. “I saw that...
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Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
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Task Force
Tom Eisenmann; in it, she compared mobile money use in African countries with Latin America’s much slower adoption and discovered that while 85 percent of Mexico’s population owned a smartphone, only 30...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am...
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- 16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an online pawnshop that...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community...
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Julia Hanna
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
short-term, bottom line thinking drive decisions contrary to the best interests of that business (and society) over the long term. Frankly, the threat that is posed by climate change to our planet must now be thought of as short-term. Finding a purpose-driven solution...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
the long term. The class of community papers with which we’re working in Colorado serves ethnic, linguistic, racially [diverse] communities. These are critical civic assets. We’re seeing tons of political money being poured into...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
have plenty of money in my pocket and healthy maize for my family to eat," Mustapha said then. "My children are already looking healthier—I can barely lift my eight-year-old. He's the fattest in the village." On a continent more likely to...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
effects of organizations allowing employees to “work from anywhere” and why geographic mobility has led to increased innovation. The movement of employees, Choudhury found in one study, promoted tacit knowledge View Details
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April White
- 01 Dec 2016
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Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
cents a day, are then enrolled in the program, and cash transfers are delivered via mobile payment. Each recipient receives about $1,000—the equivalent of a household’s annual budget. This fiscal year...
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April White
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) is CEO and cofounder of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, she talks about the...
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Finance
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
corporations from using their foreign profits to build facilities in the United States. Business interests are calling for a so-called tax holiday, in which American corporations would be allowed to transfer their foreign profits to their...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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Managing Family Assets
encourage bad behavior. Another part may be that the transfer of knowledge somehow implies the transfer of power, and many people don’t like to give up power. How do you get disparate family members to agree...
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- 12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
existing scaled-up technologies in the mining industry for the novel application of ‘mining’ e-wastes. WikiPay is a proprietary mobile and online commerce platform that facilities money transfer, payment...
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