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- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
attractiveness of a well-structured public-private partnership framework for water distribution in Metro Manila, encouraged us to make this investment. In the process, we were able to change a public utility delivery system that was stuck... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
private companies, the USPS has to have even its best ideas reviewed by regulators and contested by competitors. But inevitably making tough choices about technology to create new services has to be market-driven, in spite of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Chile, where we keep repeating the same mistakes?” It got me thinking about how, if a country’s archives are closed and public information is unavailable, you can’t learn from anything. So I did a pilot, in which we interviewed 20 top... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
When the inaugural West Point All-Academies Asia Summit opens in Singapore on June 25, Ray Jefferson (MBA 2000) will celebrate a personal moment of triumph. For the Summit’s point man, this first-ever gathering in Asia for graduates of all of the US View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 28 May 2019
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Broken Link
connection makes. She’s the executive director of administrative services at the Rappahannock County Public Schools, a rural school district in Virginia that was used to slow internet and frequent outages... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
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One School at a Time
back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming more involved in the local public... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
private life. These honorees, like their predecessors, are often in the limelight by virtue of their notable accomplishments and high-level positions in the private and public sectors. Curious about the personalities behind the famous... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
in entrepreneurship, the historical origins of "born global" companies; the importance of networks in new international market development; the role of public policy in shaping cross-border entrepreneurial activity; and the effect of... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
Harvard President Drew Faust for the Inaugural Event, which included a morning and afternoon of case discussion, student interactions, and faculty-led alumni panel sessions. "In America and around the world, the public has lost trust in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and consulting View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
deteriorated, and crime increased. "I remember feeling that my parents and neighbors were victims of forces beyond their control," Jones says. Later, while earning a degree at the University of San Diego, Jones, at age 23, became chief of staff to a San Diego city... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
willing and able buyer, a valuable “exit” option when public capital markets are underdeveloped. On the other hand, some groups’ close connections to a nation’s power structure may serve as a barrier to entry, stifling entrepreneurship... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
block in Harvard's efforts to create an innovation hub in Allston that encourages our students and faculty to explore and nurture ideas that lead to new knowledge, new products, new services and perhaps even new industries,” said Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Uncorked
After graduating from HBS, Sue McClelland (HRPBA ’60) faced an unappealing job market. Back then, women were only truly welcomed as teachers, nurses, or secretaries, and “I didn’t want to do any of those,” McClelland told the Modesto Bee (January 14, 2007). So she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A Day’s Pay
Times (June 3, 2010). “It’s kind of hard to take the farmworker out of the kid and the legislator when you come from farmworker stock and you see what your parents and grandparents have gone through.” As for the future, Florez said public... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84), are the lost opportunities that the United States could have pursued: expanding services for its own citizens, offering crucially needed leadership on the world stage, and improving domestic security. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
system: "By practically any measure, the quality of public K–12 education in the United States is dismal." And the stakes are high. As Childress, deputy director of education at the Gates Foundation, outlined, research continues to show a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
Lawrence S. Kramer (MBA '74), who spent twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor for publications such as the Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner, was himself in the news last January. Kramer's financial information... View Details