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  • 05 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025)

Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025) shares his experience in public service and why he decided on the joint degree program with Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School. The MBA/MPP and MBA/MPA-ID are three-year programs that combine... View Details
  • 2024
  • Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang
The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States
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An Invitation to Market Design

By: Scott Duke Kominers, Alexander Teytelboym and Vincent P. Crawford
Market design seeks to translate economic theory and analysis into practical solutions to real-world problems. By redesigning both the rules that guide market transactions and the infrastructure that enables those transactions to take place, market designers can... View Details
Keywords: Matching; Trading; Scrip; Liquidity; Efficiency; Equity; Allocation Rules; Marketplaces; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Auctions
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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
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts

By: Gareth Olds
A growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship rates in the United States over... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship
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  • Research Summary

Institutions and Markets

Alexander Dyck's academic articles, case studies and course development show how incentive policies, ownership structures, regulatory agencies and corporate governance institutions determine whether hopes for value creation through private sector expansion will be met.... View Details
  • January 2023 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Veeva Systems and the Transformation to a Public Benefit Corporation

By: Ranjay Gulati and Allison M. Ciechanover
Peter Gassner, the co-founder and CEO of Veeva Systems, steered the company through rapid scaling from its launch in 2007 to 2022. Year after year, the company had exceeded expectations, with its market capitalization reaching $50 billion at its peak. By 2022, the... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • 11 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

from ready for online voting. We can't even manage to cast and count votes accurately with the new electronic technologies. Q: In the United States it seems the public has a very low opinion of the federal government. Can government View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Fast Answer

Entrepreneurial Marketing

Highlights from Baker Library resources helpful for marketing & sales planning and applications for early stage ventures. Below are some suggested resources for your EM project.  Get 1/1 help with a librarian: Request a... View Details
  • May 2023
  • Course Overview Note

Space: Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE)

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
SPACE is a course with two goals: to use the tools of economics to better understand the rapidly evolving space sector, and to train the next generation of commercial space leaders. We pursue these goals through a systematic study of the growing space economy,... View Details
Keywords: Industry Growth; Aerospace Industry
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  • December 2001 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

Aviation Security after September 11th: Public or Private?

Was the public or the private sector best positioned to provide security and baggage screening services? The suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the plane crash outside Pittsburgh, marked September 11, 2001, as the date of the most severe... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; National Security; Air Transportation; State Ownership; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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  • March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

CalPERS' Emerging Equity Markets Principles

By: Robert G. Eccles and Aldo Sesia
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Value; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; China; California
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  • 05 Aug 2015
  • News

Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery

“Corruption is a great untapped market,” Henry Motte-Munoz (MBA 2013) says with a laugh. “Not many competitors and customer interest is quite high.” It’s a market he’s helping to disrupt using Bantay, an NGO he cofounded while at HBS,... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Crowding in Private Quality: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Spending in Education

By: Tahir Andrabi, Natalie Bau, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Naureen Karachiwalla
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public-school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at the village-level, allowing... View Details
Keywords: Product Differentiation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Spending; Education; Competition
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  • October 2016
  • Supplement

Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B)

By: Joshua Margolis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman
The case complements “Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel’s Cellular Market (A),” HBS case number 417-017, which addresses reforms to regulations in Israel’s telecommunications industry initiated and implemented under the leadership of... View Details
Keywords: Market Reform; Political Leadership; Industry Regulation; Regulatory Reforms; Economic Sectors; Private Sector; Public Sector; Values and Beliefs; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Country; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Market Design; Market Participation; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Israel
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  • September 2019
  • Supplement

Keroche (B): Considering Entry into the Kenyan Beer Market

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
This case discusses the situation of the Kenyan alcoholic drinks producer Keroche in July 2004, when co-founder Tabitha Karanja was debating whether to enter the Kenyan beer market. Doing so would mean direct competition with the multinational EABL in an industry and... View Details
Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Alcoholic Drinks; Alcoholic Beverages; Beverages; Drinks; Wine Industry; Wine; Fortified Wine; Viena; Beer; Beer Market; Manufacturing; Production Capacity; Capacity; Growth; Regulated; Unregulated; Informal; Informal Market; Regulation; Illicit; Illegal; Substandard; Dangerous; Shutdown; Factory; Safe; Affordable; Low-income Consumers; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Production; Investment; Safety; Quality; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Public Sector SME Grading System in Emerging Markets: A Focus on Nigeria

By: Saveshen Pillay, Anywhere Sikochi, Charles Odii, Zaakirah Ismail, Regina Bamaiyi and Denise Mubaiwa
In this paper, we explore the impact of creating a public sector nano, micro, small and medium enterprise (nMSME) grading system in Nigeria. Using insights from work with the Nigerian government, the first country in Africa to attempt to establish a public sector SME... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Economic Growth; Emerging Markets; Economic Sectors; Africa; Nigeria
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  • 13 Dec 2022
  • HBS Seminar

Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy

  • 02 Feb 2016
  • News

America Is Addicted To Market Porn

  • 08 May 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Writing the Case for Public School Reform

The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education