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      Antonio Serra, A Short Treatise on the Wealth and Poverty of Nations (1613)
      Wealth & Poverty: Articles, Research, & Case Studies on Wealth & Poverty– HBS Working Knowledge
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      • 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
      • Teaching Note

      West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 321-026.  View Details
      Keywords: Covid-19; Covid; Hospital; Coalition; Health Pandemics; Race; Health; wealth And poverty; Equality And Inequality; Change; Leadership; Chicago
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Joyce J. Kim. "West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 321-074, September 2020.
      • September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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      Student Success at Georgia State University (B)

      By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
      This is a supplement to the Student Success at Georgia State University (A) case. The (B) case includes the results of a randomized control trial that Georgia State conducted to test education technology start-up AdmitHub’s chatbot solution as a strategy for improving...  View Details
      Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum And Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Values And Beliefs; Leadership; Goals And Objectives; Measurement And Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission And Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome Or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; wealth And poverty; Equality And Inequality; Technology; Technology Platform; Education Industry; Atlanta
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      Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-039, September 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
      • Case

      Student Success at Georgia State University (A)

      By: Michael W. Toffel, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley
      Georgia State University had developed a reputation for driving student success by nearly doubling its graduation rate for students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. It did so while growing its student body and the proportion of Black/African...  View Details
      Keywords: Education; Higher Education; Learning; Curriculum And Courses; Demographics; Diversity; Ethnicity; Income; Race; Leadership; Goals And Objectives; Measurement And Metrics; Operations; Organizations; Mission And Purpose; Organizational Culture; Outcome Or Result; Performance; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; Planning; Strategic Planning; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; wealth And poverty; Equality And Inequality; Technology; Technology Platform; Education Industry; Atlanta
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      Toffel, Michael W., Robin Mendelson, and Julia Kelley. "Student Success at Georgia State University (A)." Harvard Business School Case 621-006, September 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • September 2020
      • Case

      West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Paul Stramaglia
      During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. David Ansell, Darlene Hightower, and Ayesho Jaco, leaders of West Side United (WSU), a coalition of Chicago hospitals, community residents, banks, and small businesses conceived in 2016, reviewed progress toward WSU’s goal of ending...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid; Covid-19; Hospital; Coalition; Health Pandemics; Race; Health; wealth And poverty; Equality And Inequality; Change; Leadership; Chicago
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Paul Stramaglia. "West Side United: Hospitals Tackle the Racial Health and Wealth Gap." Harvard Business School Case 321-026, August 2020.
      • April 2019 (Revised April 2020)
      • Case

      Reaganomics: Impact and Legacy

      By: Tom Nicholas, John Masko and Matthew G. Preble
      During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan and his administration instituted several far-reaching economic policies that had both near- and long-term impacts on such aspects of the U.S. economy as monetary policy, inflation, the tax structure, and the role of...  View Details
      Keywords: wealth And poverty; Business And Government Relations; Leadership; Taxation; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Inflation And Deflation; Money; Economy; Economic Slowdown And Stagnation; Economic Growth; Equality And Inequality; United States
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      Nicholas, Tom, John Masko, and Matthew G. Preble. "Reaganomics: Impact and Legacy." Harvard Business School Case 819-007, April 2019. (Revised April 2020.)
      • 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.)
      • February 2018 (Revised June 2018)
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      Uruguay: Facing the 21st Century

      By: Sophus A. Reinert, Michael Chu and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      In the fall of 2017, self-made business leader Edgardo Novick pondered his campaign to be elected President of Uruguay, “the Switzerland of Latin America.” Inspired by populist revolts against the status quo observable worldwide, Novick hoped he could ride popular...  View Details
      Keywords: Uruguay; Edgardo Novick; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Geographic Location; Government And Politics; wealth And poverty; Economic Slowdown And Stagnation; Globalization; Pulp And Paper Industry; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Uruguay
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      Reinert, Sophus A., Michael Chu, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Uruguay: Facing the 21st Century." Harvard Business School Case 318-019, February 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
      • February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
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      ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia

      By: Sophus A. Reinert, Sarah Nam, Sisi Pan and Eric Werker
      During the summer of 2014, Alan Knight, general manager of corporate responsibility at the integrated steel and mining company ArcelorMittal, observed the unfolding of an Ebola epidemic in Liberia and other countries in West Africa with great concern. On the one hand...  View Details
      Keywords: Ebola; Epidemics; Ebola Private Sector Mobalization Group; Epsmg; Civil War; Sovereignty; Change Management; Judgments; Development Economics; Geopolitical Units; Globalized Firms And Management; Emerging Markets; Business And Community Relations; Business And Government Relations; Safety; War; wealth And poverty; Welfare; Crisis Management; Mining Industry; Liberia
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      Reinert, Sophus A., Sarah Nam, Sisi Pan, and Eric Werker. "ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia." Harvard Business School Case 718-029, February 2018. (Revised March 2018.)
      • January 2018
      • Article

      Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life

      By: Edward L. Glaeser, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca and Nikhil Naik
      New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables at higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for...  View Details
      Keywords: Data And Data Sets; Urban Scope; City
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      Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik. "Big Data and Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life." Economic Inquiry 56, no. 1 (January 2018): 114–137.
      • Article

      (Mis)perceptions of Inequality

      By: Oliver P. Hauser and Michael I. Norton
      Inequality is arguably the defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,...  View Details
      Keywords: Equality And Inequality; wealth And poverty; Perception; Society; Policy
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      Hauser, Oliver P., and Michael I. Norton. "(Mis)perceptions of Inequality." Special Issue on Inequality and Social Class. Current Opinion in Psychology 18 (December 2017): 21–25.
      • July 2017 (Revised December 2018)
      • Case

      Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era

      By: Rafael Di Tella and Sarah McAra
      During the 2016 U.S. election, long-time politician Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, a Republican, faced off in a contentious race for president. In the primaries, candidates from both major political parties used anti-establishment...  View Details
      Keywords: Populism; Elites; Income Inequality; Social Media; Government And Politics; Globalization; Political Elections; News; Media; Labor; Prejudice And Bias; Public Opinion; Social Issues; wealth And poverty
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      Di Tella, Rafael, and Sarah McAra. "Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era." Harvard Business School Case 718-005, July 2017. (Revised December 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.
      • June 2017
      • Case

      MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
      In January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income...  View Details
      Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; wealth And poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
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      Applegate, Lynda M., José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta, and Aldo Sesia. "MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid." Harvard Business School Case 817-073, June 2017.
      • June 2017
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      Guillermo Jaime—An Endeavor Entrepreneur

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
      Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the story of Jaime and Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to...  View Details
      Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; wealth And poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
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      Applegate, Lynda M., Sarah Mehta, and Aldo Sesia. "Guillermo Jaime—An Endeavor Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 817-084, June 2017.
      • July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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      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; Restructuring; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Non-governmental Organizations; Expansion; Partners And Partnerships; Groups And Teams; Business And Stakeholder Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Community; Business And Shareholder Relations; Wealth And Poverty; Well-being; Technology Adoption; 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.
      • 2014
      • Chapter

      Firms and Global Capitalism

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work that traces the history of capitalism from its origins to the present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in...  View Details
      Keywords: Political Economy; American History; Economic History; Business History; Labor History; Slavery; Numeracy And Quantification; Science And Technology Studies; History Of The Book; Globalization; International Investment; International Business; International Marketing; Globalization; History
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      Jones, Geoffrey. "Firms and Global Capitalism." Chap. 6 in The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present, edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, 169–200. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
      • 2013
      • Book

      Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,...  View Details
      Keywords: Fdi; Economic History; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Government And Politics; Banking Industry; Chemical Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty And Cosmetics Industry; Electronics Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North And Central America; South America
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      Jones, Geoffrey. Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850

      By: G. Jones
      This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently...  View Details
      Keywords: Wealth And Poverty; Globalization; Business History; Institutional Change; Political Economy; Emerging Economies; Developing Countries; Industrial Development; Culture; Human Capital; Economic History; History; wealth And poverty; Business History; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Developing Countries And Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Service Industry; Latin America; Asia; North And Central America; Africa; South America; Europe
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      Jones, G. "Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-076, March 2013.
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