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- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
projects the private sector was planning to do on its own. The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933 is perhaps the most famous example of this. Other dollars appear to indirectly crowd out View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
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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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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
course shifted my worldview: what the most pressing problems are, who comes up with solutions, and how we get there. Professor Henderson pushed hard for us to think deeply about systemic change when it's easy to be satisfied with small wins. Though the course is... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
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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
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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
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
decentralized nature of building and financing homes posed obstacles to private organizations who tried to do the same. Anecdotal accounts, like this feature in the Ladies Home Journal in 1903, suggest that most home-buyers cobbled... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... 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
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
investing sector and its importance and viability. Highlights What Is Sustainable Investing? Can We Do Well by Doing Good? Introduction: Omidyar Network Show Hide Details Concepts Introduction to Sustainable Investing Incumbent Players... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals
degrees that are popular in the private sector combines a significant list of career options that the typical transitioning veteran seeks to preserve through the transition process pending a final decision... View Details
- 02 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to the JD/MBA Program
interested in international policy, spent several summers working in government, and thought law school would be a good fit. After working for a few years, I became interested in corporate social responsibility because I like working in the View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
accelerate adoption of high-performance, energy-efficient materials and practices across the American construction industry. “Our building sector today is responsible for 40 percent of the country’s energy use and emissions,” notes Yang,... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
officers—some of the military’s most senior leaders—sometimes assume that great officers leave the military for the private sector because they want to make more money. In reality, some of those officers... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
have the market capitalization to back it up. Among multinationals doing business in China, many others have endured cyber attacks on their private networks, although it is unlikely those attacks had the same human rights implications as... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
staffing, services, physical space, strategic guidance and more — are popping up in the private sector almost as fast as the dot.com companies they hope to hatch. They're pulling in veteran entrepreneurs and... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss