Private Governance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2013
News

Sizing Up Social Impact

private investment," says Bloom. "Fortune 500 companies have told us that they read our scorecards every year." In countries where the MCC operates, a government entity implements the program agenda, in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

examine ongoing efforts to forge a public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

place in the private sector, the owners would probably hold the stock until the company was in robust health. The realized price on the stock would then in all likelihood be higher. But the Obama administration has made it clear that as a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

08 Nov 2011
News

Saluting Our HBS Veterans

Battalion Assistance Foundation, dedicated to assisting rangers and their families when their needs outstrip the Army’s abilities to meet them. Says Scherrer, who serves on the foundation’s board, “The Rangers are an elite special operations unit and unique in that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; veterans; Government; Government

01 Mar 2004
News

L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words

was a surprise to us how run down the place was. I sometimes say, If we’d gone into Iraq, if we for some reason had been put in charge of Iraq on March 1, before the war, we’d face exactly the same problems I’m facing now. I was rather happily ensconced in the View Details

Keywords: Government; Government

01 Jun 2009
News

Big Bailouts, Little Debate

— Internet, housing, private equity, credit, emerging markets — and the only lesson we’ve taken away is that when each one bursts, an eager audience moves on to the next. Those specific bubbles won’t reinflate, but something else will.... View Details

Keywords: Charles Duhigg; Government; Government; Government

December 2000 (Revised December 2001)
Case

Victor Semenov: A Journey From the Plan to the Market

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Pavel Sorokin

Keywords: Agribusiness; Privatization; Food; Policy; Russia

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Danny Cho

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Three years ago, I made the difficult decision to leave the US Army and enter the private sector. An MBA was a natural next step because I needed the business skills and credibility, but... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

can be called a system—that actually governs most countries is anything but the work of deliberate design. The recent evolution of the norms and rules of the international monetary system raises several important questions for scholars,... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

level the consumer seems to benefit What are the downsides for consumers?: no choice in platform content feed from ‘preferred’ sources, personal information, and pattern recognition issues to name a few. So governance and policy settings... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

nurtured in different educational and institutional settings. The question, then, is this: does China have a good institutional framework for innovation? Our answer at present is no: the governance structures of Chinese state-owned... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

01 Dec 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

energy R&D spending. Although government R&D has its challenges, it also brings the ability to finance the early stages of technology demonstration and scaling. At the same time, the business community is increasingly positioning itself... View Details

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

weakening the conditions of credit supply (especially in a slowly recovering economy) and improving the soundness of the financial system. The interaction between regulators and the private sector is a crucial ingredient in getting these... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

king of the commute, even though public transit often has lower direct dollar cost. The prevalence of private automobiles causes problems that go far beyond the combustion engine and its massive carbon footprint. In city centers,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

16 Jun 2017
Blog Post

What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?

professional and personal goals at key points in the Fellowship year. After their year in the program, Fellows stay at the organization, stay in the non-profit sector, or transition to the private sector. This post was... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the potential effects of a temporary 2 percent tax on corporations'... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

October 2020
Supplement

TowerBrook: ESG in Action (B)

By: Victoria Ivashina, Brian Trelstad and Meaghan Conway

This case is the second of a two-part series that follows Ramez Sousou and his team at TowerBrook Capital Partners as they face a challenging investment decision in February of 2013. It is intended to be distributed at the end of the discussion of “TowerBrook: ESG in... View Details

Keywords: ESG; Finance; Private Equity; Corporate Governance; Value Creation