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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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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

Review - Cities Books Collaborating to manage : a primer for the public sector Check Harvard Availability Governpreneurship Check Harvard Availability A guide to innovative public-private partnerships : utilizing the resources of the... View Details

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Roniesha Copeland

legend, Magic Johnson. “He talked about his urban development enterprise,” Roniesha says. “He partnered with businesses that put storefronts in neighborhoods they previously didn’t think would be profitable. His talk gave me a window into the role the View Details

November 2018
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Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee

By: Mark Roberge, Gamze Yucaoglu and Samer Al-Rachedy

As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa Alwaalan had been trying to produce the perfect cup of Arabic coffee for over a decade. In 2007, she began testing various coffee blends, which she later branded Yatooq, the Arabic word for “craving” or... View Details

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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
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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

26 May 2016
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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

22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs

business community who recognizes its growing potential in the US economy. Avance’s focus on lower middle-market business services and consumer sectors that often correlate to the types of companies founded by Latinx entrepreneurs meant... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

rolling. We are seeing that change can happen at the school level. Now the challenge is at the system level.” —Wendy Kopp, CEO & Founder, Teach For America “The mix of government and private industry responsibility really depends on the... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating service businesses in highly... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

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

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference to tell their stories—the ups, downs, and detours that brought them to where they are today. "I moved back home. That's where I started," said Joseph Williams (HBS MBA '99), cofounder of Wakefield James, a firm that purchases and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Feb 2021
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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

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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
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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

16 Jun 2016
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Digging Into Data: Making A Career Change

financial services roles interestingly remained within the sector but switched their focus. The vast majority moved from private equity into the investment management / hedge fund space. And, 43% of students... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing; Technology

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

01 Dec 1998
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New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership

management positions in the public and private sectors, the program exposes participants to the best management practices from around the globe through case studies, lectures, study groups, and team workshops. The four-week program takes... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

1981) KORTENHORST and KORMI: The global energy transition involves the public and private sectors alike. Global R&D budgets for energy are growing, with 20 countries, including the United States, making... View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

Curriculum. "The private sector is increasingly welcome in fields that were long considered the provenance of government and social service organizations, and that is exciting news for the next generation of... View Details

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