Private Sector Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact

Library (NYPL) and the education initiative accelerator America Achieves, and he currently serves as president and CEO of Education Development Center (EDC), a nonprofit based in Waltham, Mass., that for more than 60 years has View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jan 2004
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Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

broken were education and medicine," Nielsen recalls. "But education seemed too big a nut to crack." Settling on medicine, Nielsen and Cramer pored over the Seattle phone book to find a research and development company they could buy and... View Details

10 Oct 2018
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Building Paths to Success

me that we could combine business and nonprofit and make one plus one equal more than two,” he says. “Seventy percent of what I was doing in my private equity and business life was extremely relevant; but in the other 30 percent, there... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 2021
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Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

robust public and private sector institutions? “That didn’t convince me 100 percent,” Tercek says, “but it did make me think more carefully about the trade-offs and my limited perspective.” The case reveals... View Details

01 Apr 2002
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John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera

picked up his desk and a few chairs and moved across Independence Mall to his new office at the Opera Company. "I was back at my same desk but in a different business," he says. The contrasts with the private View Details

04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

see that there are a lot more female investors that are getting involved. But there’s a bottleneck for the exits that typically venture capitalists are looking for in terms of going public. Now you have a lot of these private companies... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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How to Spur Prosperity

Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen. Even in the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

Focusing on miniaturization, Sony became the first mass marketer of small transistor radios and followed with the development of the first transistor-based microtelevision set. Then came the Walkman, the basic VCR, the CD, the CD-ROM, the... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey

He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

Clayton Christensen. This new category of aircraft, developed out of research done in the mid-1990s by NASA and aircraft-engine manufacturers, tied in well with government-funded efforts to decrease congestion at major hubs by encouraging... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

What are some similarities and differences between local government and between the tech sector that we can really leverage to learn more about government services, and how to provide them more efficiently? Ingersoll: A lot of times what... View Details

30 Sep 2015
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Looking to Rwanda’s Future

advisor at the private equity firm TA Associates. “They asked, ‘What do we need to do today to help us attract international investors in the future?’ They were considering investments in infrastructure, resources, and education that... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

enhances business performance as well. "Community involvement can contribute to the definition and development of a company's organizational culture, which is an important determinant of corporate performance," he observes. "Volunteering... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

09 Jan 2014
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Tapping into Opportunity

jeans can use up to six tons. Producing two pounds of wheat needs one ton, and two pounds of beef requires between 15 and 30 tons. "Despite looming water scarcity crises in the US and around the world, water is free and abundant in most of the View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2015
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Truth in Lending

Lab. And that may just be the answer to developing a strong small-business sector in emerging markets. In more developed markets, a bank can make loan decisions based on credit... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Aug 2014
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Cross-Class Connection

resonated deeply with our class members.” “I think there’s a real opportunity to share lessons learned with other classes,” says Jones, a managing director and head of Global Private Equity at Morgan Stanley. “There’s a misperception that... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Déjà Vu All Over Again

surely won’t stop observers from trying, even as reverberations from the most recent crisis continue to be felt. The exhibit will be on display through May 3 and can be viewed online at www.library.hbs.edu/hc/crises/. Railway development... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money

business, government, and the global economy. It saps the strength of people and institutions, especially in developing countries. Everyone’s against corruption, or so they claim. But virtually all countries are involved in facilitating... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women

cohort. They were great for education, she recalls, but progress was slow as far as gaining seats. So, Hagemann, CEO of Executive Development Associates, created a directory of the 2016 and 2017 WOB participants so the women could connect... View Details