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November 6, 2018
Helping Entrepreneurs Grow Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
While most business research in the developing world focuses on finance, a Stanford professor is testing a different set of interventions: marketing.
October 19, 2018
Taking an Expansive View of Success
How two former schoolmates built a pair of thriving mountain resorts while helping at-risk urban kids.
October 10, 2018
Reshaping Markets to Solve Poverty and Inequality
Academics, investors, and nonprofit leaders on how to find innovative solutions for the world’s starkest problems.
October 5, 2018
Heeding the Siren Song of Service
Chad Cooper left a fast-track banking career when the struggling Brooklyn Conservatory of Music called his name.
September 25, 2018
How to Tap Skilled Managers in Villages Where Chiefs Still Rule
Identifying and promoting talented technocrats outside traditional hierarchies can catalyze local economic development.
September 19, 2018
How Much Is Your Private Data Worth — and Who Should Own It?
In an ideal world, consumers would control the rights to their data but would also be able to sell it broadly.
September 7, 2018
The Power of Telling It Like It Is
In Panama, a new study finds that kids are more likely to drink healthier beverages if you speak the truth — subtly.
July 9, 2018
Why Liberals and Libertarians Both Have It Wrong — And Right
Is the current economic malaise caused by income inequality, runaway regulation, or some combination of the two?
June 21, 2018
How to Flunk Retirement and Thrive
A former marketing executive loves his unlikely third act as a prison-education reformer.
June 20, 2018
The Secret Sauce in Workplace Training
First-time workers do better when trainers focus on “unwritten skills,” such as how to talk to strangers.