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      • 02 Mar 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Can Historic Social Injustices be Addressed Through Reparations?

      Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe historic social injustices should be addressed through reparations. Professor Mihir Desai discusses the arguments for and against reparations in response to the Tulsa Massacre and, more broadly, to the effects of slavery and racist government policies in the US in his case, “The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 23 Jul 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

      by Rachel Layne

      Developing countries have fewer fiscal tools and policy options to combat COVID-19 damage to their economies, according to research by Alberto Cavallo and colleagues. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 15 Jun 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

      by Rachel Layne

      Liberia trains community workers to help medical professionals on the front lines of disease control, says Brian Trelstad. Could the model work elsewhere? Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 20 Mar 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      In the Shadows? Informal Enterprise in Non-Democracies

      by Kristin Fabbe, Allison Spencer Hartnett, and Steve L. Monroe

      With the informal economy representing a third of the GDP in an average Middle East and North African country, why do chronically indebted regimes tolerate such a large and untaxed shadow economy? Among this study’s findings, higher rates of public sector employment correlate with greater permissibility of firm informality.

      • 21 Feb 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

      by Sean Silverthorne

      Voter ID laws are often proposed as an antidote to election fraud. There's just one problem, according to Vincent Pons. They don't work. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 27 Jun 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment

      by Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Kathleen McGinn

      For many girls in developing countries, early adolescence is a time of key challenges: school dropout rates rise, and social and economic pressures increase for marriage and motherhood. This randomized control trial involving Zambian adolescent girls finds that negotiation skills can help them navigate these challenges. Girls taught negotiation skills had significantly better educational outcomes over the next three years.

      • 05 Dec 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

      by Sean Silverthorne

      Harvard Business School’s project exploring the evolution of business leadership in emerging economies has reached an important milestone. Project leaders Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss what's been learned from the Creating Emerging Markets study so far. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 18 Aug 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History

      by Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila, and Geoffrey Jones

      This paper argues that there are important commonalities about the business history of countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America despite differences between countries and within regions of each country. It is possible to discern a distinctive body of scholarship different from that on the West.

      • 07 Jun 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

      by Carmen Nobel

      A scholar of colonial-era African history, Caroline M. Elkins had dramatic success turning prior knowledge into real-world action—namely, with a groundbreaking lawsuit against the British government, which revealed a chillingly bureaucratic process for destroying evidence of torture. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 01 Jun 2017
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Building India’s First $100 Billion Company

      Startups welcome growth but are often strangled by it. In this podcast, Sunil Gupta discusses how entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma is meeting this challenge with his mobile payments company Paytm. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 20 Apr 2017
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Making Health Insurance That Consumers Actually Like

      By motivating its insurance customers to take care of themselves, South African firm Vitality has expanded to the United Kingdom and China. In this podcast, Professor Regina Herzlinger discusses potential impacts of this model for health care in the United States. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 27 Feb 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

      by Sean Silverthorne

      Reputation and resilience are key ingredients that determine whether companies will survive tumultuous markets, according to a new paper by Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna, Cheng Gao, and Tiona Zuzul. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 15 Feb 2017
      • Op-Ed

      What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

      by John Macomber

      John Macomber explains why the solution to America’s infrastructure woes may lie in finance models that have proven successful in several nations in Africa. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 29 Jun 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

      by Carmen Nobel

      According to the World Health Organization, depression and anxiety disorders cost nearly $1 trillion annually. Nava Ashraf discusses the important link between mental health and economic productivity. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 20 May 2016
      • Op-Ed

      World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

      by John Quelch

      When it comes to emergency preparedness for pandemics, the World Health Organization is falling short, argues John A. Quelch. A better solution: The World Bank. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 21 Apr 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa

      by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri

      Results from a text messaging experiment conducted before the 2013 National Election in Kenya show that basic information provided via short message service (SMS) resulted in small turnout increases but had a large effect on attitudes towards electoral institutions.

      • 16 Feb 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

      by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri

      A key question in organizations is whether there is an optimal balance between diversity and sameness within teams of workers. Findings from a field experiment within a nonprofit research organization based in Kenya suggest much of the tradeoff between diversity and sameness may come from the different effects diversity has along different dimensions of organizational structure. Diversity along the organization’s hierarchy improves both effort and performance.

      • 13 Jan 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

      by Michael Blanding

      Ethnically diverse teams can be less productive than more homogenous teams, according to research in Kenya by Vincent Pons. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 16 Dec 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

      Research by Kathleen McGinn and colleagues shows how teaching negotiation skills to young Zambian women can greatly improve their health and educational outcomes. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 23 Nov 2015
      • Book

      The Historian Who Came in from the Cold

      by Dina Gerdeman

      While much has been written about the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Jeremy S. Friedman’s Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World is the first book to explore in detail the significance of the “Second Cold War” that China and the Soviet Union fought in the shadow of the communist and capitalist struggle. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 28 Sep 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

      by Dina Gerdeman

      Improving access to financial services for the poor in developing countries seems an unmet market need. So why are so many mobile money efforts failing? Rajiv Lal says the problem begins with Marketing 101. Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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