Private Sector - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Role of Business Leaders in Sustaining Market Capitalism

for entrepreneurial businesses to market products/services to low-income people, providing a new source of profits and benefitting society. Greater emphasis is needed on employees and the human systems within business. The public and View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Sep 2017
News

Research Brief: As the Wind Blows

“Every time there’s a shift in politics, everything gets reversed.” In the US wind sector that meant decades of stop-and-start innovation, a lack of institutional structures, and speculative investing. This stood in contrast to Denmark.... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with strong IPR protection. Our results support theoretical arguments that IPR protection strengthens firms’ incentives to innovate and that View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

01 Mar 2011
News

Fast Casual

Privately owned, with 1,350 locations in 37 states and $1.4 billion in annual sales, PRG is in the “fast casual” sector of the restaurant business — that’s shorthand for not selling hamburgers — and is best... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

November 2000
Case

WARDA: Leading a Rice Revolution in West Africa

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis

The West Africa Rice Development Association, along with various national and international partners, was developing and transferring new rice technologies to farmers throughout West and Central Africa. While production in West Africa was growing faster than any other... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa

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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

38,000 active international organizations from 300 countries and territories - including intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Capital IQ - profiles of public and private... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

obligations of board membership. Accepting a position in the public sector will typically necessitate stepping down from private sector responsibilities to avoid conflicts of... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

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The MOC Affiliate Network Impact - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

content focus, and 60% of the institutes were developed as a direct result of the associated institution's participation in the MOC Affiliate Network. A growing number of MOC faculty are active in local and regional competitiveness efforts that engage government and... View Details

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Clarissa Quintanilla

as well. “No single sector can resolve poverty at the base of the pyramid,” Clarissa says. “There has to be a joint solution. And if you’re going to be a bridge between the public and the private sectors,... View Details

26 May 2016
News

Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

organization. “When we launched Bridgespan, the phrases ‘social entrepreneur’ and ‘venture philanthropy’ did not exist. We took a page out of Bain & Company’s book about how to add value, customizing it for the social sector to create... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

08 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

around private sector involvement in alleviating poverty. However, he found over his five years with the organization that aligning future generations of business leaders with the goal of creating prosperity... View Details

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

and economic institutions are able to coordinate private decisions on stable and productive paths. Where institutional development is weak - as seems to be the case in much of the developing world - private... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy

School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. The two-day Social Enterprise Research Forum on Nonprofit Strategy gathered a diverse group of leaders - both practitioners and academics - to discuss the applicability of business strategies to the social View Details

03 Feb 2021
News

Power Play

a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, and brought in partners... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

energy conservation alone. And this is all in a world in which we are spending a ridiculously small amount of money on clean energy research, and the private sector has only minimal incentives to invest. In... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

Not allowing establishment of private educational institutions on equal footing with public institutions. The best educational institutions in the world are private and I am proud to be a faculty in one of... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

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Making Markets

Use these resources to analyze broken markets and validate your proposed solutions. Understand the Current Marketplace: Gain a sense of the current landscape, major players, and future trends within an industry or sector in order to... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices

used the research findings to change its approach to the issue. Ashraf says that “in both the private sector and the world of global health, effective solutions require understanding the specific context.”... View Details

Keywords: birth control; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

which we take collaboration to the level of megacommunities from the private and public sectors working together to solve large-scale social problems." Others, including Jay Somasundaram, wonder about... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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