Public Sector - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

When Harvard Business School launched its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993-1994, few academic institutions were conducting serious research and teaching about how to create social value through the nonprofit, private, and public... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

January 2025
Case

AI Meets VC: The Data-Driven Revolution at Quantum Light Capital

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan

Ilya Kondrashov, CEO of Quantum Light Capital, was driven to harness AI for identifying high-potential scale-ups. Collaborating with Nik Storonsky, founder of Revolut, the duo observed that most venture capital (VC) decisions were heavily influenced by emotion, with... View Details

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03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

which investors should have access in order to make informed investment decisions, it engaged in a public comment period, soliciting feedback from various stakeholders about the provisional standards it developed by sector. As such, it is... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

30 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Role of Business Leaders in Sustaining Market Capitalism

for entrepreneurial businesses to market products/services to low-income people, providing a new source of profits and benefitting society. Greater emphasis is needed on employees and the human systems within business. The public and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

care Over these challenging times, the need for organizations that form part of the social support net is key. Yet, it is at these times that social impact organizations are the most vulnerable. The first crunch being faced by organizations across View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. Ebrahim teaches the required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, and chairs the Executive Education program Governing for Nonprofit Excellence. Q: Mario, tell us about Venture... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

public use—major new products of either consumer electronics or computer hardware with their essential software technologies. In the United States, no enterprise had the capability to commercialize new consumer electronics technologies.... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

bureaucracy, and decision-making hurdles can all interfere with early public sector adoption of even the most worthy innovation, he says. This slower-than-expected adoption and diffusion may have surprised... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

business sector is economic value creation, the altruistic dimension prevails in the third sector. In our cases, social leaders approached companies for a variety of reasons that most certainly included accruing some organizational... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

customers notorious for labyrinthine procurement processes and glacial sales cycles. At the same time, Weiss reasons, if approached in the right way, selling to the public sector can amount to a huge... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

and inadequate care. In short, health care in the United States appears to be broken. Enter Harvard Business School's Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse parts of HBS to both conduct research on the View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

resources and regulatory effort goes into ensuring that the public has access to these financial opportunities; in fact, much of American social policy oriented toward the non-indigent operates through structured opportunities for saving... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

http://www.people.hbs.edu/ffoley/IPRImit.pdf Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector Authors:Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda Publication:In America's Energy Innovation Problem Abstract We examine the extent to which venture... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

expenditures. In doing so, we show that fiscal spending shocks appear to significantly dampen corporate sector investment and employment activity. These corporate reactions follow both Senate and House committee chair changes, are present... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

that?' I have found that many people who come into this industry do so for a combination of professional and personal factors," Williams says, adding that he left his job at a technology consulting firm and joined a biotech start-up soon after that conversation.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

increased public pressure to help address societal problems, for-profit firms have adopted social responsibility policies, which have pushed them to focus more on social initiatives." “Some of them have been accused of losing sight of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum." The conference brought together 114 global faculty from schools of medicine, health care administration, public health, and business; leaders of the US professional... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

Not allowing establishment of private educational institutions on equal footing with public institutions. The best educational institutions in the world are private and I am proud to be a faculty in one of them. Rehiring View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

understand why some of the other top firms in the business, such as KKR and Apollo, have been tapping the public equity markets for their own funds, and whether they should do the same. They are also pondering how to monetize their own... View Details