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- 2021
- Working Paper
The Business of K-12 Education in China
By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
Jones, Geoffrey, and Yuhai Wu. "The Business of K-12 Education in China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-022, October 2021.
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
differences in ownership structure across countries, measured by the difference in sectoral vertical integration indexes, are smaller in sectors with similar levels of protection. Finally, ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209138 Fighting Malnutrition and Hunger in the Developing World Harvard Business School Note 909-406 The millennium objectives of reducing poverty and malnutrition are not being met. How do the private, public,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
nonprofit organization, IAVI brought together partners with different perspectives and motivations from nonprofit, industry, government, and scientific research sectors toward developing vaccines. IAVI... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
toward clean water projects. Still, Keenan acknowledges that many in the nonprofit sector worry that enabling overhead-free donations will perpetuate the idea that overhead is a bad thing. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
institutions across sectors must be mobilized before technical solutions can be applied. Along similar lines, technical knowledge of solutions alone is not enough to scale successful demonstration projects that address these complex... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
organization of these elements can vary across markets and can vary in terms of the different roles of the public and private sector in financing and delivery of health care services. Overall, the framework provides an opportunity for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
disproportionate share of power. In the past few decades, as legislation that put controls on Wall Street was largely undone, the size and profits of the financial sector grew enormously. That increased its influence, particularly its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
is a place, like the contemporary United States, of real income inequality across its schools, even as its students are recruited from every sector of American life. Like the United States, it has enviable resources, and it manages to... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
almost every society on how much we should allow the private sector to handle prosocial objectives,” says Zhang, who studies workplace culture and social inequality. “What we saw here is that if the private View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
Skills in persuasion are vital, because for problems requiring advanced leadership, such as climate change, with so many stakeholders and sectors involved, no single leader can order anyone to do anything. It’s all a matter of lining up... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
organization was not eligible to receive nonprofit status—which meant donations would not have been tax-deductible and likely caused many potential donors to not contribute. "The One Fund team made it known we would proceed without... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
first star men and women. Better yet, companies such as SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now a division of Northrup Grumman) have actually proven their launch vehicles by delivering satellites or payloads to extraterrestrial destinations. The latest news: Israel's View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
Immediately after graduation, a significant majority of the graduates of the leading two-year, full-time MBA programs take jobs in financial services and consulting, driven in part by financial rewards that make it very difficult for companies in other View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
information in a way that benefits themselves,” says Exley. “That’s discouraging to economists; we think one of our primary tools is information.” The lesson for nonprofits That result may be discouraging to the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- June 2003 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
WWF
By: John A. Quelch
WWF is the best known environmental organization in the world. This case explores the issues WWF currently faces and reviews the organization's partnerships with the private sector. The protagonist, Paul Steele, WWF's COO, must decide which of three potential private... View Details
Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "WWF." Harvard Business School Case 503-113, June 2003. (Revised July 2004.)
- November 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Commercialization at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (A)
A large and successful not-for-profit medical research institute must decide strategy to commercialize its discoveries. In the process, it must balance multiple conflicting demands from its stakeholders. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Public Sector; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Health Industry
Fleming, Lee, Michael Vitale, and Jonathan West. "Commercialization at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-051, November 2005. (Revised January 2006.)