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The Business of Global Poverty What role should business play as the world confronts what may be the most explosive socioeconomic challenge of the new century?   |
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March 13, 2006
Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer In this interview, Harvard Business School professor emeritus explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks that executives look beyond philanthropy to make lasting positive change. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 13, 2006
Martha Lagace |
Improving Public Health for the Poor Microfinance may offer a window on new methods for widening access to healthcare for the poor. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 28, 2009
Roger Thompson |
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance Professor Peter Tufano talks about the course and his determination to make consumer finance a broadly accepted academic pursuit. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 3, 2009
Martha Lagace |
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn Corporate social responsibility should be treated as a business discipline and practiced with the same professionalism and rigor as other aspects of a firm's strategy. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Guy Pfeffermann |
Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: The Role of Private Enterprise The role of private enterprise in development has been neglected by scholars, governments, and aid organizations. This is regrettable: a vibrant private sector generates jobs, raises incomes, and makes better, cheaper goods and services available... |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 14, 2005
Manda Salls |
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands Coca-Cola, move over. Many of the world's best-known brands belong to nonprofits, but the brand management issues these organizations face can be quite different. |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 21, 2007
Lodge & Wilson |
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish Countries most successful in reducing poverty have focused on creating profitable businesses. They provide the jobs, income, and motivation for education and individual development that raise standards of living. |
The Motley Fool
April 19, 2007
Jeremy MacNealy |
Foolish Book Review: "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid" This book addresses some of the most critical questions facing the world at the turn of the millennium. Fearlessly tackling the big questions with sound solutions, C.K. Prahalad's book is one of the more important business reads in circulation today. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 13, 2011
Carmen Nobel |
HBS Cases: Mobile Banking for the Unbanked A billion people in developing countries have no need for a savings account -- but they do need a financial service that banks compete to provide. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Saavedra & Arias |
Stuck in a Rut Avenues for combating persistent poverty and inequality in Latin America. |
The Motley Fool
October 31, 2006
Jeremy MacNealy |
Foolish Book Review: Corporate Responsibility In Part 1 of a series of articles highlighting some of the critically important essays in Harvard Business Review on Corporate Responsibility, here are insights from "Serving the World's Poor, Profitably," by C.K. Prahalad and Allen Hammond. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Mahmood Hasan Khan |
Rural Poverty in Developing Countries How does rural poverty develop, what accounts for its persistence, and what specific measures can be taken to eliminate or mitigate it? |
HBS Working Knowledge
April 26, 2004
Manda Salls |
The Next Ten Years of Social Enterprise Harvard Business School hears suggestions on how to direct the efforts of its Social Enterprise Initiative over the next ten years. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Nora Lustig & Nicholas Stern |
Broadening the Agenda for Poverty Reduction: Opportunity, Empowerment, Security Experience from the 1990s has led to a poverty reduction agenda that, in addition to promoting economic growth, addresses ingrained inequalities, institutional failures, social barriers, and other risks. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 25, 2004
Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Trends in Latin American Business Harvard's Latin America Research Center, in Buenos Aires, has been charting the region's volatile business conditions for four years--and sees opportunities. This Q&A with Executive Director Gustavo A. Herrero explains why 2004 should be Latin America's strongest since 1997 |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Masood Ahmed & Hugh Bredenkamp |
Supporting Poverty Reduction in Low-Income Developing Countries: The International Community's Response Despite developing countries' improved economic growth rates during the 1990s, poverty has remained firmly entrenched. How can developing countries, international financial institutions, and developed countries work together more effectively to reduce the incidence of poverty? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Deepa Narayan |
Poverty Is Powerlessness and Voicelessness The Voices of the Poor study aimed to understand poverty from the perspective of poor people and to illuminate the human experience behind the poverty statistics. |
HBS Working Knowledge
September 15, 2008
Roger Thompson |
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise Social enterprise as an entity is primarily in the business of creating social value, regardless of whether it's for-profit or nonprofit. |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Masood Ahmed |
The Next Frontier Low-income countries gain ground in a globalized world, but they still face major challenges. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2007
Martin Ravallion |
Urban Poverty Yes, the poor are gravitating to towns and cities, but more rapid poverty reduction will probably require a faster pace of urbanization, not a slower one -- and development policymakers will need to facilitate this process, not hinder it. |
Fast Company
March 1, 2007
Bill Breen |
Q&A: C.K. Prahalad - Pyramid Schemer Three years ago, C.K. Prahalad unearthed the "fortune at the bottom of the pyramid." Prahalad continues to advance the prospect of an extraordinarily attractive business opportunity that's also an acid test for strategic and technological innovation. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Dani Rodrik |
Growth Versus Poverty Reduction: A Hollow Debate |
