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Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning: Practicum in Predictive Analytics, Teaching Note
Toffel, Michael W.; Levy, DanTeaching Note HBS-619071-EEconomicsTeaching note for case 618019.Starting at €0.00
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Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning: Practicum in Predictive Analytics, PowerPoint
Toffel, Michael W.; Levy, DanCase HBS-619718-EEconomicsSlides for case 618019.Starting at €8.20
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Devil in the Details: Designing a Social Impact Bond Agreement in Medellin Teaching Plan
Levy, Dan; Varley, PamelaTeaching Note HBS-KS1168-EEconomicsThis teaching plan accompanies Case Number 2043.0. In July 2012, three freshly-minted Harvard Kennedy School graduates bought one-way tickets to Medellin, Co-lombia, to launch a nonprofit startup they called Instiglio. Their idea: to bring Social Impact Bonds, still experimental even in affluent nations, to Colombia and other low to middle income countries. This statistics case-one of two nearly identical HKS cases about Instiglio-provides backgr...Starting at €0.00
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Paying to Improve Girls' Education: India's First Development Impact Bond
Datla, Anjani; Levy, DanCase HBS-KS1282-EEconomicsIn 2013, Educate Girls (an Indian nonprofit working to increase the number of girls enrolled and learning in school), partnered with Instiglio, a startup specializing in financial instruments for social programs in developing countries to create the first Development Impact Bond-a financial instrument similar to a Social Impact Bond. UBS Optimus, a Swiss foundation, agreed to act as the investor and the London-based Children's Investment Fund Fou...Starting at €8.20
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Designing Impact Evaluations: Assessing Jamaica's PATH Program, Teaching Note
Levy, DanTeaching Note HBS-HKS622-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for HKS448.Starting at €0.00
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Providing Pensions for the Poor: Targeting Cash Transfers for the Elderly in Mexico
Levy, Dan; Coarasa, JorgeCase HBS-HKS787-EWhen the Mexican Congress approved the country's 2007 budget, it included an appropriation of 8.5 billion pesos allocated to provide non-contributive pensions to senior citizens. President Felipe Calderon wanted to introduce eligibility criteria that would ensure the new federally-funded pensions would go to poor seniors that would otherwise lack the means to sustain themselves. This case puts the reader in the shoes of Calderon's advisor, asking...Starting at €8.20
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Providing Pensions for the Poor: Targeting Cash Transfers for the Elderly in Mexico Teaching Note
Levy, Dan; Coarasa, JorgeTeaching Note HBS-HKS788-ETeaching Note for HKS787Starting at €0.00
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Devil in the Details: Designing a Social Impact Bond Agreement in Medellin
Varley, Pamela; Levy, DanCase HBS-KS1139-EEconomicsIn July 2012, three freshly-minted Harvard Kennedy School graduates bought one-way tickets to Medellin, Colombia, to launch a nonprofit startup they called Instiglio. Their idea: to bring Social Impact Bonds, still experimental even in affluent nations, to Colombia and other low to middle income countries. This statistics case-one of two nearly identical HKS cases about Instiglio-provides background about the SIB model (a financing mechanism for ...Starting at €8.20
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Evaluating the Impact of Solar Lamps in Uganda
Datla, Anjani; Levy, DanCase HBS-KS1294-EEconomicsIDinsight, an evaluation company founded by graduates of the Harvard Kennedy School, designs and conducts evaluations that best suit the needs of clients across the developing world, offering timely and rigorous evidence to help decision making. In 2014, USAID approached IDinsight to conduct an evaluation of an affordable solar lantern developed by another social organization, d.light. IDinisght would have to assess whether d.light's innovation ...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning (B)
Toffel, Michael W.; Levy, Dan; Pineda, Astrid Camille; Morales Arilla, Jose Ramon; Johnson, Matthew S.Case HBS-618064-EEconomicsStarting at €5.74