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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
projects and how to combat inertia, and one man’s craving to make lasting contributions. Faculty Books Private Equity: A Casebook by Paul A. Gompers (PHDBE 1993), Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration; Victoria Ivashina,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
making the budgets available. Then, beyond that, the private sector can play a really important role. There are a number of companies in India where there’s a mandate to set aside 2 percent of profits for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Save the Dates
5, 2003 HBS Global Leadership Forumns “From the Commanding Heights to the Market: The Changing Face of Business” Shanghai, China June 17–20, 2003 “The Private Sector and the Public Interest” Washington, DC... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
country. I’ve been in conversations about how we might be able to partner with private sector employers who are going to lay people off. Is there a way we could get some highly skilled people to help us? I'm... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
trials forced her to put those aspirations aside. The drive that led her to excel in athletics had to be rechanneled into the private sector, a life change that brought her to HBS and eventually to the top of her chosen field,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
provide us only with high valuation." Entrepreneurial Finance is currently taught by Professors Howard Stevenson and Jay Light, and Senior Lecturers Joe Lassiter and Ed Zschau. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector Funding cutbacks,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
HBS’s New Venture Competition (NVC) on April 23, 2019. The judges, many of them alumni, represented sectors ranging from venture capital to private equity to impact investing. Pak detailed the products’ key... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
Shanghai (2004) and London (2005). The 2006 GLF will be held in Washington, D.C., June 20–22, and the program looks exceptionally interesting! The theme this year is The Private Sector and the Public... View Details
Keywords: Peter Cooper
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
those seven people. It’s clear that the engine of the country’s innovation sector is stuck in the past. Professional spaces such as hospitals, law offices, and boardrooms still have significant work to be done to achieve diversity in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
seem to fix. "The problems facing Nigeria and West Africa are too great for the public sector or traditional NGOs to solve," says Masha. "The private sector can make a much... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
the world, it has been the private sector that’s been critical to transforming the educational ecosystem. If we can stabilize and grow our university partners, this can forever change the trajectory of this... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
were about 50 people, and we started to hold meetings with the mayor of Mito, who agreed to support the project through deregulation, by providing tax incentives, and by communicating with the city’s population so the project could move forward. So it required... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
cord and placenta. Next, the company made history by providing the first cord-blood stem cell transplant in treating sickle cell anemia. Today, more than 30,000 children have been transplanted with cord blood from units, privately from... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
mandate that private sector employers auto-enroll their employees in a pension plan. In the span of six years, the number of people with pensions in the UK jumped by 10 million. But just opening the accounts... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
local and state-owned enterprises had been privatized. Significantly, the Chinese constitution was amended in 1998 to describe the private sector as “an important component” of the economy, an about-face... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
generously subsidized (largely through the tax deductibility of mortgage interest, which stimulates demand for homes as well as loans from banks). Private equity, which enjoys a 15 percent tax rate on carried interest. (If the tax rate on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
environment is any indicator, biotech companies - and the large pharmaceutical firms many of them are affiliated with - won't be the only sector of the economy trying to capitalize on the new pool of genetic information. In a recent... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
make an impact at the intersection of the public and private sectors. “I wanted to envision a future state and bring it to life,” he says. A dream job, he wrote, would be secretary of economic development in Louisiana. Less than a decade... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for private equity. There is not... View Details