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      • Winter 2021
      • Editorial

      The Start of Time Smart Leadership

      By: Ashley Whillans
      The author discusses the concept of “time poverty,” which she defines as “having too many things to do and not enough time to do them.” It is a problem because it undermines happiness and productivity and increases stress. For instance, in 2012, 50 percent of working...  View Details
      Keywords: Time Poverty; Time And Wellbeing; Leadership; Employees; Time Management; Performance Productivity; Welfare
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      Whillans, Ashley. "The Start of Time Smart Leadership." Leader to Leader 99 (Winter 2021): 64–69.
      • November 4, 2020
      • Editorial

      Which of These 6 Time Traps Is Eating Up All Your Time?

      By: A.V. Whillans
      There is an 8 out of 10 chance that you are one of the poorest people in the world. However, when I say you’re poor, I’m not talking about your bank account (although material poverty is indeed a pressing concern for many of us). Rather, I mean you are time poor: You...  View Details
      Keywords: Time Poverty; Time Management
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      Whillans, A.V. "Which of These 6 Time Traps Is Eating Up All Your Time?" TED Ideas (November 4, 2020).
      • October 2020
      • Article

      Why Time Poverty Matters for Individuals, Organisations, and Nations

      By: Ashley V. Whillans, Laura Giurge and Colin West
      Over the last two decades, global wealth has risen. Yet, material affluence has not translated into time affluence. Instead, most people today report feeling persistently “time poor”—like they have too many things to do and not enough time to do them. This is critical...  View Details
      Keywords: Time Poverty; Health; Welfare; Human Needs; Global Range
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      Whillans, Ashley V., Laura Giurge, and Colin West. "Why Time Poverty Matters for Individuals, Organisations, and Nations." Nature Human Behaviour 4, no. 10 (October 2020): 993–1003.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Algramo

      By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
      Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores...  View Details
      Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With Fmcgs To Meet Esg Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
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      Chu, Michael, Monica Silva, and Mariana Cal. "Algramo." Harvard Business School Case 321-079, September 2020.
      • March 2020
      • Article

      A Revolution in Economics? It's Just Getting Started...

      By: Shawn A. Cole, William Pariente and Anja Sautmann
      We have each experienced thrills and pain while supporting the mission of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, which facilitated many of the experiments described in the 2019 Nobel Prize citation. J-PAL in many ways seeks to fulfill what Angrist and Pischke...  View Details
      Keywords: Randomized Control Trials; Economics; Research; Innovation and Invention
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      Cole, Shawn A., William Pariente, and Anja Sautmann. "A Revolution in Economics? It's Just Getting Started..." Art. 104849. World Development 127 (March 2020).
      • April 2019
      • Case

      Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)

      By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
      In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues....  View Details
      Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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      Battilana, Julie, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Michael Norris. "Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 419-059, April 2019.
      • December 2018 (Revised March 2020)
      • Technical Note

      Note on Economic Inequality (2020)

      By: Rebecca Henderson, Jessica A. Gover, Aldo Sesia and Mariana Oseguera Rodriguez
      For over half a century, most of the world's economies have enjoyed steady growth and prosperity. While this economic growth has reduced the number of people living in poverty, it has come with an increase in economic inequality. The gap between the "haves" and the...  View Details
      Keywords: Economic Inequalty; Wealth Inequality; Equality Of Opportunity; Political Polarization; Economic Growth; Economics; Income; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Society; Problems and Challenges
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      Henderson, Rebecca, Jessica A. Gover, Aldo Sesia, and Mariana Oseguera Rodriguez. "Note on Economic Inequality (2020)." Harvard Business School Technical Note 319-071, December 2018. (Revised March 2020.)
      • 2018
      • Working Paper

      Alleviating Time Poverty among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment

      By: Ashley V. Whillans and Colin West
      Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we will conduct a longitudinal field experiment in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of working mothers, a...  View Details
      Keywords: Time; Money; Subjective Well-being; Administrative Costs; Friction; Poverty; Welfare; Perception
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      Whillans, Ashley V., and Colin West. "Alleviating Time Poverty among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, October 2018.
      • June 2018 (Revised November 2018)
      • Case

      Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement

      By: Julie Battilana, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Michael Norris
      In 2018, New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof and his wife, former Times writer Sheryl WuDunn (HBS ’86) who worked in finance, were planning for their next book. The couple’s earlier books had given rise to social movements around gender equity and poverty issues....  View Details
      Keywords: Social Movement; Gender Equality; Writing; Social Issues; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Poverty; Books; Change; Leadership
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      Battilana, Julie, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Michael Norris. "Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: The Power of Writing to Launch and Sustain a Movement." Harvard Business School Case 418-004, June 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing of that gap. The literature on the timing and...  View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Economics; History; Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth
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      Jones, Geoffrey. "Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-004, July 2017.
      • Spring 2017
      • Article

      Globalizing Latin American Beauty

      By: G. Jones
      This article discusses the growth over time of the beauty industry in Latin America and its bias towards celebrating whiter rather than darker skin. Although alleged Latin American fascination with beauty is regularly ascribed to culture, Latin sensuousness, and...  View Details
      Keywords: Latin America; Race And Ethnicity; Globalization; Race; Ethnicity; Prejudice and Bias; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Latin America
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      Jones, G. "Globalizing Latin American Beauty." ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 16, no. 3 (Spring 2017): 10–14.
      • July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
      • Case

      Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett
      Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Organization; Business And Community; Well-being; Wealth and Poverty; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Technology Adoption; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Partners and Partnerships; Restructuring; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business and Community Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Banking Industry; Latin America
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      Edmondson, Amy C., Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias, and Natalie Bartlett. "Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank." Harvard Business School Case 616-004, July 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
      • 2014
      • Chapter

      Business History and the Impact of MNEs on Host Economies

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      Business history has long been recognized as providing an important dimension in international business studies. Much of this historical work has focused on mapping historical growth patterns of multinationals and exploring the determinants of their growth. However,...  View Details
      Keywords: Multinational; International Business; Business History; Culture; Globalization; History; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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      Jones, Geoffrey. "Business History and the Impact of MNEs on Host Economies." In Multidisciplinary Insights from New AIB Fellows. Vol. 16, edited by Jean J. Boddewyn, 177–198. Research in Global Strategic Management. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2014.
      • September 21, 2013
      • Other Article

      Redefining Global Health-care Delivery

      By: Jim Yong Kim, Paul E. Farmer and Michael E. Porter
      Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best...  View Details
      Keywords: Health
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      Kim, Jim Yong, Paul E. Farmer, and Michael E. Porter. "Redefining Global Health-care Delivery." Lancet 382, no. 9897 (September 21, 2013).
      • December 2012
      • Article

      Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965

      By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
      Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak institutions, or ethnic heterogeneity. But has African poverty been a persistent historical...  View Details
      Keywords: Living Standards; Real Wages; Labor Market; Colonial Institutions; Economic Growth; Wages; History; Africa
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      Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965." Journal of Economic History 72, no. 4 (December 2012): 895–926.
      • 2010
      • Book

      Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism

      By: Peter Wehner and Arthur C. Brooks
      Popular opinion would have us believe that America's free market system is driven by greed and materialism, resulting in gross inequalities of wealth, destruction of the environment, and other social ills. Even proponents of capitalism often refer to the free market as...  View Details
      Keywords: Capitalism; Economic Systems; Ethics; Moral Sensibility
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      Wehner, Peter, and Arthur C. Brooks. Wealth and Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism. Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2010.
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      By: Marlous van Waijenburg

      Professor van Waijenburg’s research focuses on the historical roots of relative African poverty and state fragility. Where sufficiently reliable and comparable records exist, she creates new datasets from a range of qualitative and quantitative archival sources. The...  View Details

      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment

      By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West
      Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we will conduct a longitudinal field experiment in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of working mothers, a...  View Details
      Keywords: Time; Subjective Well Being; Administrative Costs; Friction; Poverty; Welfare; Money; Perception; Kenya
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      Whillans, A.V., and Colin West. "Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment." Nature Human Behaviour (forthcoming).
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      Business and Low Income Sectors: The Creation of Economic and Social Value

      By: Michael Chu
      In the last three decades, innovative commercial solutions have emerged in developing nations focusing on providing effective responses to the hugely underserved needs of low-income populations, both as consumers as well as active participants in productive value...  View Details
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