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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

understanding the fundamental improvement challenges facing the health care sector and developing strategies for addressing them. Students may have career interests in organizations that provide health care... View Details

February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
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Doing Business in New Delhi, India

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak

The case uses the example of Tata Motors to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in India. View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; India

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20 Feb 2019
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Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals

programs offered by organizations like the COMMIT Foundation (full disclosure: I volunteer with COMMIT) and many private sector companies through which you can get exposed to those companies and jobs. Read... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

business, and social leadership. Similarly, we mandated that respected Zambian private or civil sector leaders chair all negotiating transaction teams. What consideration do you give to the spiritual and... View Details

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

privatization of Argentina's electricity sector and is now contemplating an even larger privatization opportunity in Peru. In deciding how much to bid in Peru, Endesa must... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

China—face challenges and opportunities under President Xi Jinping. We will delve into China's domestic business environment and the changing relationship between the private sector and the Chinese Communist... View Details

15 Feb 2017
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What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

care, security, and more). These are valid reasons. But there are workarounds that work. At Harvard Business School, my research looks at ways that the private sector can finance and deliver public... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

01 Mar 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal

Making cities more attractive for people takes pressure off our open spaces.” A cofounder of Urban Partners—a developer of urban infill, mixed-use, and transit-oriented real estate—Rosenfeld has moved between the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting services to enhance the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American countries and the United States... View Details

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Public companies: comparative financial ratios

Where do I find comparative financial ratios of public companies in an industry? In Capital IQ: For broad industry sectors (energy, materials, consumer discretionary, consumer stables, healthcare, financial, information technology,... View Details

22 Nov 2016
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Memoirs of an International First Year Student

need not be. There are plenty of job opportunities for international students in the US and abroad, and the Career and Professional Development Office will work closely with you to help you identify various opportunities. In terms of... View Details

17 Nov 2022
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Blockchain for Good

Sachs, and held C-suite roles with several large private equity firms, for help with an idea that would eventually become Millicent, their blockchain-based digital financial venture. Dyer says Millicent’s payments network will be a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Summing Up The clear consensus of those responding to this month's column is that managerial capitalism, as John Bogle terms it, has peaked. But what will follow it is less clear. Many doubt that the form of owners' capitalism represented by View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 May 2022
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Get to Know 2022 Class Day Student Speaker Peter James Kiernan

to the response operation and saving people’s lives. I realized how crucial it was to learn the language of the private sector and business in general.” Jumping into an uncertain year at HBS, Kiernan was in... View Details

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Lauren Booker

New Haven Economic Development Corporation. And in her junior year, she studied abroad in the Dominican Republic, awakening "an interest in development within emerging markets," says Lauren,... View Details

11 Feb 2015
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Dedicated to a public service mission

Western Pacific deployments during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, then joined the private sector at Caustic Soda and, more recently, Dow Solar. Outside the office, he has actively volunteered... View Details

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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

(IIJA), the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Representatives from key government departments—Treasury, Commerce, Energy, and the White House—joined forces with leaders from finance, manufacturing, and technology View Details

28 Mar 2014
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Wanted: Public Entrepreneurs

Keywords: public entrepreneurs; government innovation; Government

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

example, the Rock Center Fellows Program subsidizes students working on an existing startup or launching their own, and the Career and Professional Development Fellows program aids career changers, such as those interested in the luxury... View Details

Keywords: April White

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