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01 Mar 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid

dedicated solely to international development. This has given them the breathing room to devise their own allocation strategy and be more creative with the programs they fund. Not coincidentally, my current work in Liberia is funded by the British! Is the View Details

Keywords: foreign aid; Government

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Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds | Baker Library

select Year Founded. Enter desired value. By adding a fairly recent founding date, this helps ensure that the funding was recent (there's no way to add a date value to the funding in a company screening). You can also narrow down by funding round. Go to View Details

16 Oct 2014
News

Innovating for International Aid

jobs. Wu’s private-sector résumé is also filled with enough experience for a couple of different careers. He cofounded and served as general partner of FTV Capital, a private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

10 Jul 2018
Blog Post

Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

has been welcome. “In my admissions essay, I wrote about how wonderful it would be to have an interesting role in the private sector involving human capital – and that’s what I got. HBS has been a great... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

depend on the ability of its independent regulators to provide for a level playing field between the government and private sector in areas such as insurance, civil aviation, telecom, and energy.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Lorrayne Ward

align incentives across the public and private sectors by distributing medicine to rural areas via the existing network of drugstores. Profits for shopkeepers, more lives saved for society – a perfect plan,... View Details

07 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - COP27 and the Climate Crisis

pioneers of environmental sustainability from the private and NGO sectors who have mobilized their organizations in response to the worsening impacts of climate change: Helmy Abouleish is CEO of the SEKEM... View Details

01 Jun 2025
News

Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)

Sacramento, where we worked on arenas and the public sector funded 50 percent of the construction costs. Even at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas it was 50-50.” “We sell to the private placement bond market.... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

December 2017
Response

Reply: Do Powerful Politicians Really Cause Corporate Downsizing?

By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy

While we commend the initiative of Snyder and Welch (2017), we lay out in this short reply why we remain highly confident in our results and our interpretation thereof. We welcome authors to continue to explore the data for themselves and look forward to the new... View Details

Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence

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Katie Laidlaw

and career path? HBS introduced me to more industries, jobs, companies, and roles than I thought possible. It helped me understand how private sector frameworks and analysis can be applied successfully in... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

data analysis and metrics tracking. ArcelorMittal and the private sector during the Ebola crisis Spring 2016 | Focus: Healthcare; International Development Team: Sarah Nam and Sisi Pan Description: The Ebola... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

New HBS, KSG Joint Degree

joint degrees, students must be admitted independently to both HBS and KSG. “Graduates of this new program will be able to address some of the world’s most pressing issues that call for collaboration between the public and the private... View Details

Keywords: Administrative and Support Services; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; Management

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

commercial R&D efforts by pharmaceutical, biotechnology, diagnostics, and agricultural companies. The latter was a very specific commercial bet. Placing these commercial bets requires a depth of understanding of markets and customers that only the View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

28 May 2019
News

Tech for the People

“the fairly small world of civic innovation.” Today, Tsai is applying his leadership skills in the private sector at Facebook, where he is a product manager working on civic integrity. View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

March 2019
Supplement

KITEA (C): A Surprise Delay

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu

This case describes the delay of IKEA’s store opening in Morocco in 2015. After Sweden ordered an internal review of its position on the independence of Western Sahara, a territory Morocco regarded as part of its own, the Moroccan government declared that IKEA did not... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Retail Industry; Africa; North Africa; Morocco

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01 Sep 2008
News

On Track

trials forced her to put those aspirations aside. The drive that led her to excel in athletics had to be rechanneled into the private sector, a life change that brought her to HBS and eventually to the top of her chosen field,... View Details

Keywords: Finance

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Resources for Harvard Economics Students

markets, and public and private companies. Used in the financial sector for financial data and modeling. Orbis This company database is unique in its breadth of geographies and extent of... View Details

20 Feb 2019
News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything alone. The private View Details

Keywords: April White

February 2019
Supplement

KITEA: Democratizing Furniture in Morocco (PowerPoint supplement)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

This PowerPoint accompanies the KITEA cases and the associated teaching note. The KITEA series of cases (A-F) details how the Moroccan furniture company KITEA prepared for the entry of IKEA into the Moroccan market and describes the outcome of that entry. View Details

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February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
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Sarvajal: Water for All

By: John D. Macomber and Mona Sinha

Entrepreneur wrestles with business model using SMS and RFID technology, franchising, and leasing to rapidly grow off-the-grid water purification business without subsidies. The company seeks to provide potable water services to rural and urban India where the public... View Details