Private Sector - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

remains inefficient for the most part, and most pockets of entrepreneurship—interesting, vibrant new ways of doing things—are in the private sector or civil society, staying far away from government... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship and business history. Dr. Roberts has worked in a variety of private sector roles. Prior to and during business school, he worked for McKinsey & Co. and Morgan Stanley, respectively. From... View Details

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Foundation ; Impact Investing ; ESG ; Family Business ; Forecasting and Prediction ; Private Sector ; Renewable Energy ; Social Entrepreneurship ; Climate Change ; Environmental Sustainability ; Green... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Key concepts: Business and Society, Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Leadership Patagonia's change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order... View Details

22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

credit extended to private sector firms. See Sam’s other research here , Jeremy’s other research here , Adi’s other research here , and Eric’s other research here . More Info Large banks and small firm... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

to make an impact on the world the way that Charlie has, I needed management skills," says Crotty, who, true to form, has been active in numerous HBS student organizations. Fortified by her MBA, Crotty plans to refine her skills in the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

promotion. A government can carry out investment promotion itself, but this approach has the disadvantage that the government organization may be unable to acquire skills that are required if the activity is to be managed properly. The required skills may reside in the... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

01 Jun 2023
News

Bridging the ESG Data Gap

partner reporting and portfolio monitoring. Launching a startup was not Murday’s original goal in attending HBS. She grew up in a Rust Belt city outside of Chicago and expected to work in the public sector after studying policy at... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

entrepreneurial ventures, including selffunded entrepreneurship by acquisition ventures. HBS Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees (login required) : A loan reduction program for students working in... View Details

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Shad Hall | About

years before returning to the private sector as chairman of the Drexel Burnham Lambert Group Inc. Shad, who received the School’s Alumni Achievement Award in 1985, maintained close ties to HBS throughout his... View Details

30 Nov 2015
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Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

initiative. In the “seed” group, recipients were also told that a private donor had already seeded the new initiative with a $10,000 donation. In the “match” group, recipients were told that a donor had offered to match every dollar given... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. Individual account required. Please see the More... View Details

15 Aug 2022
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University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

what kind of nation we’ve become if we let these most valuable assets slip into a period of decline.’” Why should elite private universities care about the decline of public schools? “Make no mistake: the slow-motion defunding of US... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

, a proprietary tool that measures key elements of trust in major corporations and public sector organizations. Research Workforce Change: The Hidden Cost of Layoffs and Managing Staff Reductions , Harvard Business School case, 2023. With... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

Assistance Program , HBS Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees Program , HBS Rock Center Loan Reduction for Entrepreneurs Program , and the HBS Search Fund Fellowship . Demand for the program (i.e.,... View Details

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

proving to be inefficient and were drains on the public treasury. Business would do well to support improvements in the system that purports to protect their investments abroad. The Thatcher and Reagan revolutions in the industrialized countries led to new views toward... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

almost every society on how much we should allow the private sector to handle prosocial objectives,” says Zhang, who studies workplace culture and social inequality. “What we saw here is that if the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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