Private Sector Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

Africa's economic growth and political stability. South African policymakers needed to decide what they wanted from the private sector and how to achieve it. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

just to make shark fin soup. White: Bill, with so many of the projects you do-- with MaiTai, with the Extreme Tech Challenge-- you've described it as trying to create communities of interest. And I'm curious, why this real-world community building in the tech View Details

02 Jun 2021
News

On the Road Less Traveled

myself in.” What did that mean for you in practice? How were you doing that? Hajim: Well, one of the things I developed somewhere along the line is I didn't become a victim. I always looked forward. I felt that, you know, and maybe that... View Details

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

Companies in the tech sector now (unlike during the “bubble”) produce (or conserve) goods and services that people want. They have real business models that realize revenue and profit as well as growth. "The New Economy proved to be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

develop tolerance for minor annoyances - at home as well as in the office. Many organizations are still unprepared to meet the Y2K deadline. Why? The further you are from something, the less dangerous it appears. And, as already... View Details

05 May 2023
News

Fail Better

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details

December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
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Alltech

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred

Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech... View Details

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05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

sense of purpose could use that to guide innovation. One of the exciting parts of SuperCorp and the rise of this company model is that it's actually a way to develop products and services faster, to get more innovation, and to showcase... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

the company into Arrow to maximize its value if he does the deal. Provides information to permit valuing the acquisition and developing a post-merger integration strategy and plan. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 May 2017
News

Facing the Board

real-world perspective.” Leo Corbett (MBA 1975), whose career both in the private and public sectors includes stints in the Social Security Administration and on Wall Street, has served on many boards of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photos by Susan Young; Blackrock; The Boardroom

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

says Bond, who, prior to her Motown career, served as a financial analyst for several corporations and investment firms. "The songs are as fresh today as they were 25 years ago." Candace Bond, vice president of catalog development and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2004
News

Books

century’s end, as mail-order companies such as Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward gained ground and manufacturers began to sell their own distinctive brands and develop their own distribution networks. Birth of a Salesman includes a look... View Details

Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

president at Boston Globe Media Partners, in 2012 Perlmutter helped launch Quartz, Atlantic Media’s award-winning business news site. Quartz, along with CityLab, Atlantic Media Strategies, and original online content developed for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Dec 2007
News

Mead Treadwell

involving fifteen federal agencies. In the private sector, Treadwell is chairman and CEO of Venture Ad Astra, which invests in and develops new geospatial and imaging technologies. “From 2007 to 2009, we are... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

or is the phenomenon evident in other developed economies-such as Australia? We assessed Australians' perceived and ideal wealth distributions and compared them to the actual wealth distribution. Although the United States and Australia... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

Atlanta was awarded the 1996 Games. Like Los Angeles, the Olympics' host city in 1984, Atlanta is funding the Games almost exclusively with private money. One major difference, however, between the two cities' efforts is that because of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

fan base that spans generations. She tells powerful stories and provides practical examples on how to develop extraordinary talent able to build and stimulate a company’s culture. Bloody Royal Prints by Reba White Williams (MBA 1970)... View Details

18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

million fund "for targeted programs, economic initiatives and community development projects." FEBRUARY 2 Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) recently donated $1 million to the New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund (NCF), a... View Details

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

shifts. Today, Pasta Cuisine employs approximately twenty workers; eight make up a “core” group that has been with the business for over ten years. In an industry with notoriously high turnover, developing strategies for hiring and... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

01 Dec 2007
News

Looking back; looking forward

working with our HBS clubs to develop and deliver an unprecedented Global Outreach Program that will send faculty to some fifty clubs around the world. Alumni clubs play a vital role in sustaining the HBS community while also enriching... View Details

Keywords: Jay O. Light; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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