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- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
stifling differentiation, provide a stable platform to build on and offer new ways of differentiating, either by cost, structure, product, or service. Just as literacy stimulated innovation, so do open systems and grids. Outsourcing the...
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by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- August 2022
- Case
Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action
By: Brian Trelstad, Tomas Rosales and Malini Sen
Founders of Rocket Learning, an India-based nonprofit which focused on early childhood education (ECE), received an invitation from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), a development research organization, to test its intervention for ECE with a...
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Social Entrepreneurship;
Early Childhood Education;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Literacy;
Values and Beliefs;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Education Industry;
India;
Asia
Trelstad, Brian, Tomas Rosales, and Malini Sen. "Rocket Learning: Evidence in Action." Harvard Business School Case 323-002, August 2022.
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
consequences and likely future implications of their current decisions. Finally, my colleagues at D2D Fund are very excited about financial education initiatives where we are working with commercial video game developers to embed financial View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish...
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Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Book
The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
By: Julia Rosenbaum and Sven Beckert
What precisely constitutes an American bourgeoisie? Scholars have grappled with the question for a long time. Economic positions—the ownership of capital, for instance—most obviously defines this group. Control of resources cannot explain, however, the emergence of...
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Rosenbaum, Julia and Sven Beckert, eds. The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- November 2011 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Jaipur Literature Festival — Beyond the Festival Template
By: Tarun Khanna, Dennis A. Yao, Hillary Greene and Amrita Chowdhury
Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), dubbed "the greatest literary show on earth" was an annual event held in late January at the Diggi Palace in Jaipur. JLF provided a platform for international authors and Indian language authors from the subcontinent to engage in a...
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Literature;
Festival;
Economic Development;
Social Development;
Literacy;
Development Economics;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Structure;
Social Issues;
India
Khanna, Tarun, Dennis A. Yao, Hillary Greene, and Amrita Chowdhury. "Jaipur Literature Festival — Beyond the Festival Template." Harvard Business School Case 712-401, November 2011. (Revised March 2014.)
- 12 Jul 2017
- Book
What Jane Austen and Mel Brooks Can Teach Us About Finance
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by Carmen Nobel
- 2003
- Book
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896
By: Sven Beckert
This book, first published in 2001, is a comprehensive history of the most powerful group in the nineteenth-century United States: New York City's economic elite. This small and diverse group of Americans accumulated unprecedented economic, social, and political power,...
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Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850–1896. Paperback ed. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal
By: Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg
We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice...
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Corruption;
Betrayal;
Populism;
Incompetence;
Literacy;
Crime and Corruption;
Income;
Ethics;
Political Elections;
Race;
Residency
Di Tella, Rafael, and Julio J. Rotemberg. "Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-056, December 2016.
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
about making money, but about managing it. "Financial literacy is not something that exists in the inner city," he said. Foxworth said that any conversation about working hard and staying in school must be framed in terms of...
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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
twentieth century offers an interesting puzzle. Among the large economies in the Americas, it had the lowest level of literacy in 1890, but by 1940 the country had surpassed most of its peers in terms of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
overview of approaches to teaching literacy in grades kindergarten through third grade, as well as the assessment and accountability landscape in U.S. public education. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
learned is the nature of the problem. We, perhaps like many others, had the misconception that cultural factors were the primary inhibitor to literacy development in India. However, it turns out that 85 percent of school-age children...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
benefit the environment as well as a company's bottom line," Rangan adds. Good examples are the early childhood literacy initiative of PNC, a financial services organization based in Pittsburgh, and the 10,000 Women initiative of...
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- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial View Details
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small consulting firm doing financial View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
and financial outcomes. The study complements financial education with (1) financial incentives on a financial literacy test to affect participant motivation, (2) financial goal setting to provide a psychological nudge, and (3)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Notwithstanding the low levels of literacy that many...
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Martha Lagace