Private Sector - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2019 (Revised January 2021)
Case

KITEA (A): Democratizing Furniture in Morocco

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in 2013 as Amine Benkirane, founder and CEO of the leading Moroccan furniture company KITEA, contemplates the loss his company has incurred for the first time in its 20-year history. The case then describes KITEA’s origins and provides a detailed... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

storage racks from collapsing and other major accidents; or perhaps by a particularly dramatic decline in smaller injuries prevented by workers more regularly wearing personal protective gear," says Toffel, who worked as an environment, health, and safety manager in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

broadly, I gained a deeper appreciation of the role that private sector growth plays in economic prosperity in developing countries. I also enjoyed getting exposed to and supporting a wide array of companies... View Details

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ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

private sector investment to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents. The organization strengthens inner city economies by providing businesses, governments, and investors with the most... View Details

Profile

Bryan Stromer

thing you'll be leaving with? One thing I brought to campus is the belief that business and the private sector have a responsibility to ensure that people with disabilities are included in our economy. I... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Gifts Create Frist Financial Aid Fund

where they want to leave their mark, rather than on their ability to repay loans,” said Dewey, explaining that the program is designed to meet the needs of graduating students (and recent alumni) who accept lower-paying positions in the View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

organizations face a similar set of challenging questions as they enter the twenty-first century. How should they respond to the increasing number of complex emergencies? To what extent should they cooperate with national governments and the View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Rafaella Sadun | About

and across countries, and how this affects productivity at the micro and macro level. Sadun currently co-leads the Digital Reskilling Lab at HBS, where she studies the effectiveness of large-scale digital training investments made in View Details

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

(ROICC) (also listed under Accounting & Management and General Management) George Serafeim Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Road to the White House 2024, a Private Sector Perspective on Presidential Politics Robert F.... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

setting a process for hazard resilience. Administered by UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, I was first to chair its private sector initiative, known as ARISE. As a retired construction CEO and WTC 9-11... View Details

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

private sector spends the largest share of training dollars dedicated to adults. Policymakers should support programs that actively encourage employers to invest in talent pipelines. CareerWise, founded in... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

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Emily Schlichting

the private sector that to effectively implement policy reform, I needed to understand how business works, particularly in health care." To pursue her ultimate objective, "a health care system in... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817081-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-051 Unigrains Unigrains is a French agribusiness-focused private equity firm that has provided specialized financing to France's agribusiness View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

prodding entrepreneurial people to enter the public sector or even just to invent for the public realm." “Government should be naturals at crowdsourcing” Government entrepreneurship takes many forms. There are "public-public... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

leadership, it had transformed itself into the country’s most popular online platform, dominating the e-commerce , payments, and fintech sectors at the same time that Kazakhstan’s economy was seeing rapid growth. How would Lomtadze and... View Details

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

explore how corruption uniquely affects business in emerging markets, and why it should be addressed by the public and private sectors in their case, “Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets,” and... View Details

02 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

things and keep what works.” It is not by chance that nearly all of their private sector examples come from high tech, where employees are being trained in large numbers to routinely conduct experiments that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

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Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

public sectors to have experienced harassment—again, partly explained by a greater representation of women in leadership. Sector All Made sexually suggestive remarks Treated negatively for not looking/acting... View Details

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