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  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

into catalyzing and scaling sustainable solutions. Moreover, the nature of environmental challenges requires problem solving that is no longer strictly in a public or private domain, which makes public service and nonprofits a really... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

WATER Ltd.

In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and delivery, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 02 Dec 2021
  • News

Learning Curve

Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to... View Details
  • Profile

Catherine Neale

25th Annual Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Work Project. The former president, Catherine says, "could swing a hammer better than most of the staff." Insights from the private sector While at the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

Ezequiel Reficco, a postdoctoral fellow in the HBS Social Enterprise Group. “We believe that societies don't reach their full potential unless they have a socially committed private sector and a strong... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

provides insight into how the broader management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in Industry View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Sam Hayes

Another crucial step would be to ensure that public accounting firms once again become bona fide watchdogs. Too often, lucrative consulting contracts have caused accounting firms to relax their auditing standards to placate management. Self-regulation in the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • May 2004 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Turkey: Securing Stability in a Rough Neighborhood

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Emily Thompson
After suffering years of volatility and crises, Turkey desperately sought macroeconomic and political stability in an ever-worsening region of the world. In the short term, Turkey had to repay its debt, which amounted to more than 80% of GDP. By January 2004, Turkey... View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; International Finance; Privatization; Religion; Turkey; European Union
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  • 19 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

finance into catalyzing and scaling sustainable solutions. Moreover, the nature of environmental challenges requires problem solving that is no longer strictly in a public or private domain, which makes public service and nonprofits a... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

into catalyzing and scaling sustainable solutions. Moreover, the nature of environmental challenges requires problem solving that is no longer strictly in a public or private domain, which makes public service and nonprofits a really... View Details
  • March 2019
  • Supplement

KITEA (B): Getting Ready to Face IKEA

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in September 2015, when IKEA is about to open its first store in Morocco. It then chronicles the efforts of KITEA CEO Amine Benkirane and his son Othman between 2013 and 2015 to prepare KITEA for IKEA’s entry. After incurring losses for the first time in... View Details
Keywords: Retail; KITEA; IKEA; Furniture; Furniture Industry; Entry Strategy; Responding To Entry; Localization; Competitive Interaction; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Retail Industry; Morocco; Africa; North Africa
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  • Profile

Jonathan Bailey

improving goverance and building the capacity of the private sector at the same time. Few people seemed to understand both sides." Seeking a career "bridging both perspectives," Jonathan... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals

nation's top businesswomen. Held at Burden Auditorium, the theme of the 1999 conference was "Women Enriching Business." To that end, the WSA gathered together a host of prominent women from the public and private View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life

I’ve learned to lead from behind rather than from the front.” Ehrenberg’s decision to enter the private sector was driven largely by the realization that she could help more people by mastering the business... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit

four years after the current president leaves office will be among the most consequential we’re going to live through. The decisions we make, or don’t make, will be of enormous importance to American history for the course of the 21st century.” It’s no wonder that the... View Details
Keywords: Government
  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

before the private sector got involved. "There is a huge public need here, which is potentially a great opportunity for business," said professor Rebecca Henderson, about water research. "It... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

One-on-One with Grover Norquist

investment. But when you get to be 65, don’t come and whine to the rest of us. It is not possible for the private sector to do less well than 1 percent a year over the course of somebody’s lifetime. Wouldn’t... View Details
Keywords: Government
  • 19 Jan 2024
  • News

Blockchain for Good

After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
  • 21 Sep 2015
  • News

A Sustainable Success Story

a private equity firm focused on the North American energy sector with $15 billion in funds. “We’d walk in the woods and think how amazing it was that this kind of geography still exists in New York.” So... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2016
  • News

From Money to Ministry

their vocation in ministry. “That’s a major satisfaction for me,” he says. “They don’t have any private sector experience and can have trouble relating to the pressures their parishioners face. Sharing my... View Details