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

industrial strategy requires new public, public-private, and private institutions that help build and scale clean tech markets. For instance, governments are scaling programs to invest in clean tech... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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Immersion Program Digs Deep

NEW FRIENDS: Stephen Kraus (MBA ’08) meets students of Shanghai’s Weihang Migrant School, a privately funded school for the children of rural-to-urban migrant workers. HBS ramped up its commitment to the winter break Immersion Program... View Details

Keywords: immersion; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

February 1997
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Transportation Displays, Incorporated (D): Exiting from a Successful Restructuring

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Vincent Hemmer, Eric Rahe, David Shorrock and Stephen Voorhis

Following a successful corporate turnaround and, more recently, a leveraged recapitalization, management of a highly profitable, fast--growing outdoor advertising company must consider alternative ways to harvest cash flow from the company without jeopardizing the... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Capital; Cash Flow; Profit; Taxation; Private Ownership

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28 Jul 2006
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Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

great change in recent years has been in China itself. The state-owned enterprises have realized the realities of competition and the need to improve costs and quality significantly. Furthermore, the government has allowed multiple... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

01 Sep 2005
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Making History, Starting Over

Bridges Community Development Venture Funds, established in 2002 with roughly $35 million, half from the government and half from the private sector. The objective is to invest in businesses in Britain’s... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

reach all of the 50 million patients who use the government primary care system in Tanzania. He also sees opportunity in other countries in the region such as Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria, as well as in working with View Details

Keywords: April White

Feb 2014
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Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities

This overview describes how the United States funds and finances infrastructure investment to maintain its economic competitiveness. It considers the roles of taxpayers, users, government allocators and lenders, and View Details

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Understanding Africa: Business, Entrepreneurship, Political Economy and the Complexities of a Continent General Management, Business, Government & the International Economy Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Ted Berk View Details

05 May 2003
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Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

difficult challenges ahead, he said, will be persuading people around the world that their trust in the private sector, rather than the government, could be well placed. "It becomes a lot more difficult when internal documents show... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Apr 2018
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Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

governments need most are internal sources of revenue that can then finance their public goods and services – which means a strong local private sector that creates jobs and generates tax revenue. This... View Details

28 Jul 2003
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It’s India Above China in New World Order

is taking tangible but slow steps towards embracing private entrepreneurship, a big departure from the past. India is continuing to struggle with making things easier for multinationals. So the differences are arguably narrowing; but our... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2000
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No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

government has the resources necessary to address the magnitude of the market imbalance that exists." Gould, who was the director of two homeless shelters before enrolling at HBS, was vividly reminded of that imbalance at the recent... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

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Demystifying the Family Enterprise - Course Catalog

mtolsdorf@hbs.edu Career Focus This course is designed for students who are pursuing a career in businesses that are family owned - i.e. the majority shareholders are family, investment roles in family offices, or students that might invest in or wholly purchase a... View Details

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Buying a Small Business Pt3: Screening brokers /small companies (For HBS Alumni)

What are the resources useful for screening brokers and small companies for buying a small business? You may begin with the following: Go to the HBS alumni research portal to access the following databases: (HBS email login required) Mergent Intellect –... View Details

03 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2010
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Alumni Books

The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing by Robert A. Finkel (MBA ’89) with David Greising (McGraw-Hill) Ten investment and management... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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John Oxtoby

triumphs and the compromises of the public sector firsthand. “It’s a roller coaster of emotions,” John says, reflecting on the challenges the Obama Administration faced governing in turbulent times. “I feel very fortunate to have served... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

leveraged as a skilled global workforce. With a shortage of qualified teachers and access to quality education still limited in many parts of the country, that condition remains a significant barrier. “If the Indian government View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

28 Jul 2015
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Nairobi Love: Heading Home

questions of development, public policy, and politics have always pulled me. But having studied economics for my bachelor's, and then working with McKinsey thereafter reaffirmed that I have a private sector mind – questions of leverage,... View Details

January 2002 (Revised September 2002)
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Corporate Renewal in America

By: Bruce R. Scott and Thomas S. Mondschean

Discusses various macroeconomic, regulatory, technological, and financial forces that led to increased corporate restructuring in the United States beginning in the mid-1980s. The U.S. financial system is often viewed as the most developed in the world and a model for... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Corporate Governance; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Restructuring; Markets; Private Sector; Corporate Finance; Germany; Japan; United States