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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
for reliable, affordable water service. Nearly two of every three gallons of water pumped through the dilapidated distribution system were lost or stolen. Desperate for a remedy, the Philippine government invited the private sector to... View Details
- 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 from communist tenets on state... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
bringing risk engineers and ensuring that building codes are being followed Look no further than the earthquake tragedy in Turkey. We were there as well because we ensure property there. Building codes just weren't enforced, you see the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
the Lego brand,” Moynihan recalls. “Ultimately, that led to an extremely difficult period around 2003 and 2004, when we almost lost our financial independence as a private entity.” After that, the company refocused its attention on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
rise of private equity here and abroad hasn’t gone unchallenged. The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether buyout deals involving multiple private-equity firms are anticompetitive. In Europe, critics are... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
leaving the Navy, I had to go through a process to recalibrate my skills to be applicable in the private world. And I knew business school was the answer for that. And for me, there was only one choice. “If I was going to pursue anything,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
today’s China,” Huang observes. That attitude must give way to “an ideological commitment to private property rights” and to the institutional reforms that would necessarily follow. That development seems... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Check In
group, Depatie oversaw Kimpton’s $430 million sale to the InterContinental Hotels Group in 2015 before stepping down to co-lead KHP Capital Partners, a real estate private equity firm focused on boutique and independent hotels. Spun out... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
His research focuses on venture capital organizations and their role in transforming scientific discoveries into commercial products. Much of this research is collected in The Venture Capital Cycle, a forthcoming book from the MIT Press. He has also studied the impact... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
2015, when a dangerously overflowing landfill in southern Lebanon closed. Now, with the country in the midst of an economic collapse and its citizens still reeling from the August 2020 explosion that killed more than 200 and caused $15 billion in View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
remaining committed to principles of academic openness and ethical research, Harvard has decided to review its policies regarding intellectual property and technology transfer, as well as its traditionally cautious approach toward... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
government in two ways. First, stop spending so much. Second, reduce the cost of government by half in the next 25 years. We want to drop the cost of government by four measures: spending as a percentage of GDP, regulatory burden as a percentage of GDP, total... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
semiconductors and disk drives in the 1990s. But for a city-state without natural resources, the new millennium belongs to a knowledge-based economy, and the Biopolis, which opened in 2003, is at the center of that. "In late 1989, I recommended that we build up strong... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
had agreed to work at different jobs in my company. But I would not appear as myself, the president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE), one of America’s premier, privately held theme-park operators. Instead, I would be “John... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? Associate Professor Maurer looks at how modern US involvement in the empire business began, how American foreign policy became increasingly tied to the sway of View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Trust your instincts. “Make sure you can raise your hand and say, ‘Something doesn’t look right.’ ” Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference February 1, 2003 Sponsor: HBS Venture Capital & Private Equity... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
prices. At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
resolve the many challenges facing today’s private and public sector organizations. They offer insights into specific risk domains that are shaping our world, including terrorism, cyber risk, climate change, and economic resource... View Details