Private Sector Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Feb 2024
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management

progress toward an operational goal. However, in 2023, Bridges made a shift in their internship structure, assigning an HBS intern to an Investment Associate role reporting directly to Sullivan. “(She) ended up getting involved in coordinating a bid for a new project... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Jun 2008
News

The Real Deal

Leppert called on the business community to help combat homelessness and its root causes. “Investments are, at their heart, a belief that we can create opportunities,” he noted. “The private sector must step... View Details

Keywords: Homeless; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2015
News

Leading Boston and Beyond

or public sector positions, giving those organizations the opportunity to use the managerial and analytical skills of a MBA to build capacity. Since the program’s launch in 2002, the City of Boston Mayor’s Office has hosted 13 fellows.... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

15 Jan 2020
News

The Business of Access

take Lisle’s business know-how—she had led revenue generation and growth opportunities in the private sector at companies like Oracle, Zefer, and Wellbourne International—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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 Jun 1997
News

Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating service businesses in highly... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

Alumni Changing the World

Esther Hsu Wang

Esther Hsu Wang, MBA 2009, Founding Partner of IDinsight, is on a mission to change the way the world supports those in need. Based in Lusaka, Zambia and serving organizations across Africa and Asia, IDinsight uses data and measurement to help leaders in the View Details

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Shelby Longland Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

the idea to develop such a course? The inspiration came to me ten years ago, about the time I got tenure. As I reflected on my post-tenure plans, I wrote about my interest in how the financial sector works... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

01 Feb 1999
News

Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy

How are the models of strategy that have been developed for business organizations being applied in the nonprofit world? What new strategy models are emerging that reflect the distinctive characteristics of nonprofit organizations? These... View Details

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

private sector, but well-intentioned efforts to address global health through the public sector have the unintended consequence of crowding out capital formation in the private... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

liabilities, estimated at about $34 trillion. They are omitted from Medicare's costs because the government uses cash accounting. If Medicare followed the accrual accounting, which private sector insurers... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

01 Sep 2012
News

Women and VC

director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF). The fund focuses on early-stage female entrepreneurs in digital media and eco-friendly businesses, two areas that the WVCF believes are “poised for exponential growth” because they are View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

motivated you and your HBS colleagues to develop a course specifically for leaders of professional service firms? Lorsch: Professional service firms represent an $80 billion industry worldwide. In the US and Europe, they comprise 17... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

11 Apr 2016
Blog Post

What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS

Career and Professional Development Office over the past thirteen years, as well as my own experience as an HBS student who found herself at more than one company presentation wondering why on earth I was there. In order to recruit... View Details

13 Jul 2020
News

Locally Grown

photo by David Tejada Aravaipa Ventures was inspired by the smell of clean, crisp Colorado air. Founder Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) and his family had moved from France to Boulder in 2007 as he contemplated his next professional move after a successful View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2002
News

Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change

students to use their skills and knowledge to help develop the African continent. Referring to corrupt leaders in Africa, Savage said, “We still have some of the old guard who don't understand that things have changed. They are on their... View Details

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