Private Sector - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...

young business leaders in the private sector for high-impact nonprofit board service. How has having an MBA impacted your career? First of all, during school, it allowed me the time to reflect and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

governments take on a smart city project, it's often the private sector that's left to execute the vision—sometimes at the expense of good public policy. Green Businesses Are Incredibly Difficult to Make... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

country." [We were then able to cross-check data for blocks which had Jewish institutions versus blocks that did not.] "What is crucial is that we can obtain an estimate of by how much the police presence deters crime." View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

Profile

Carter Romansky

private sector, but not to nonprofits. Nonprofits offer excellent creative opportunities, but don't have the capacity to recruit top talent." In response, Carter helped launch New Sector Alliance's... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Cracks in the Foundation

authors, HBS professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, found reason for hope, arguing that continued erosion of US competitiveness is not inevitable. While there's much that government can and should do, they strongly believe that the View Details

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

11 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

debt for new securities worth 35 cents on the dollar, with no recognition of all past-due interest. Many holdouts, however, remain outside the deal. Some experts believe that Argentina's stance will have negative consequences for the country's View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

Profile

Ben Faw

more private sector experience. Through a friend of a friend, he found an opportunity at Tesla Motors where he worked on global supply chain coordination. “I was impressed by what Elon Musk was trying to do... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Technology; Manufacturing

02 Jun 2011
News

Serious Fun

innovation approach to developing these games,” he says, noting that representatives from academia and the private sector (including companies such as Zynga and Harmonix) serve an advisory role in creating... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Portrait Project

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

22 Sep 2015
News

Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall

educating them to invent a difference in the world as public leaders and as people who collaborate with them. “I would love it if, a decade from now and maybe sooner, people thought about becoming public entrepreneurs, about leading in that fashion, either in the... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Accelerating Therapies

multi-disciplinary team project to create a business plan for commercializing research from a university or private sector lab. As Dean Nohria explained, "With student interest in entrepreneurship at an... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks - Course Catalog

does private investment help to accelerate beneficial outcomes? What are the timeframes and impacts in various geographies of increases in river flooding, extreme heat, sea level rise, wildfires, and drought? What are the policy and View Details

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

information quality specific to the firm (i.e., core information quality). If IFRS adoption improves financial statement comparability, we predict this should reduce insiders' ability to benefit from private information. Consistent with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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The Space Renaissance Is Launching: Is the World Ready? | Working Knowledge

of this unique moment. What comes next? The truth is, we can’t say for sure. As the space sector becomes more market-based, its future is increasingly determined not by some central authority but by the decentralized knowledge spread... View Details

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

Urban Waste Entrepreneurs John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr, and Fan ZhaoHarvard Business School Case 211-086 Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with... View Details