Public Sector - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2023
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Harvard Business School Announces 2023-24 Leadership Fellows

fellows—are offered once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations for one year at a competitive salary. At the same time, the... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise

23 Mar 2023
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SVB Crash Analysis

on startups, says Professor Paul Gompers. But that deep knowledge of the sector could pay huge dividends to the right big-bank buyer. SVB Collapse: HBS Faculty Perspectives (Video) The sudden closure of Silicon Valley Bank has shaken the... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

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24 Sep 2021
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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... View Details

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Elaine MacDonald Archives | Social Enterprise

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Real Property - Course Catalog

property types—office, hotel, industrial, retail, and multifamily—with an emphasis on their defining characteristics, market dynamics, operating models, and performance metrics. The module also examines newer and rapidly evolving sectors... View Details

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Leadership Collaborative | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

designed for alumni in social impact sectors including nonprofit, public service, social entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. It is not designed for professionals in impact investing or large scale for-profit... View Details

30 Mar 2015
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Raising the bar to provide quality education

With some other people in the financial sector we started a charity called ARK—Absolute Return for Kids—and one of the things we did was start a network of academy schools, which were government schools that were intended to serve... 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

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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

sectors. The goal is to identify private and public sector solutions to the three core problems of the clean energy transition. Incumbents versus startups Both incumbent firms and startups are investing in... 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

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

climate action. They are working not just in international forums affecting policies and regulations, but are also trying to make their climate goals and impacts accessible to the public by highlighting their targeted UN sustainable... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, has been studying the health care sector for nearly half a century. In that time, she has seen significant innovation in the field—and she has also seen the... View Details

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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

successful health care entrepreneurs University of Miami Professor of Orthopedics and Bioengineering, Lee Kaplan , MD Visiting Lecturer Ben Creo , M.Div. Executive Fellow Brian Walker, MPH , Ph.D. in women’s health Overview The opportunity to innovate in the healthcare... View Details

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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

(IIJA), the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Representatives from key government departments—Treasury, Commerce, Energy, and the White House—joined forces with leaders from finance, manufacturing, and technology View Details

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. LEED-ing by ExampleWhen a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the private sector follows suit,... 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

01 Mar 2014
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Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

Faculty cochair V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan, a newly tenured professor when he became the SEI's first head, recalls, "We decided on a broad scope of inquiry. For us, understanding managerial challenges within the non-profit sector was a... View Details

Keywords: SEI

01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Books

Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell (University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research) Studies have suggested that significantly... View Details

Keywords: Utilities

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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

now or in the future. Your employment start date is on or before the January following your graduation from HBS. The following positions are ineligible for private sector loan reduction awards: Managerial positions in the nonprofit and... View Details

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