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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
Nelson (MBA '88), executive director of the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, accepted an award honoring the School's efforts at a ceremony hosted by Citigroup in New York last October. "This is a tribute to the broad range of activities at HBS focusing on nonprofit... View Details
- Profile
Maya Babu
Government policy changed the way Maya Babu thinks about health care. For a summer internship, she worked in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of Health and Human Services. "It was run very much like a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
country but of American and foreign businesses as well. My only recommendation to remedy the abuses mentioned is to lift the level of morality of all perpetrators, government and private sector alike. But as... View Details
- May 2010 (Revised January 2014)
- Case
Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City
By: John D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar and Griffin James
A commercial property company evaluates water risks including the government's ability to remedy, the company's operating exposure and mitigation, and whether to relocate because of water risk. A real estate fund manager assesses investment prospects in Mexico City in... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Risk Management; Infrastructure; Privatization; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Utilities Industry; Mexico City
Macomber, John D., Regina Garcia-Cuellar, and Griffin James. "Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City." Harvard Business School Case 210-085, May 2010. (Revised January 2014.)
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.K., have adopted a hybrid approach known as the Private Finance Initiative (PFI), also known as "public-private partnerships" (PPP). Under this approach, private firms build and operate the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program
public and private sectors. I chose to pursue this joint degree because I hope to one day work for the government of Mexico, spearheading programs that create more competitive manufacturing and financial... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
'74/JD '75), who was hired after the SLOC reportedly took just one day to review some 42 other candidates. Romney, the former CEO of Bain Capital, immediately cut costs and eliminated perks to reassure potential sources of funding, both View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
patients because they have bad governments. Not surprisingly, there is a tendency to shift responsibilities from governments to private industry. But it would be unfair to push all responsibility to View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709489 WL Ross and Plascar Harvard Business School Case 209-091 How can distressed investors take advantage of the procedures governing an international bankruptcy? Wilbur L.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
in which this new media landscape is making demands on us. That has always been the case outside the United States in smaller markets. The biggest source of bias is not that it becomes more left or more right; it’s whether the government... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
equity (PE) competitor, Apollo Global Management. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-017 Ardian: Portfolio Company Governance (A) Leaders of the mid-cap buyout... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Laurie Matthews
Advertising. She also works with private clients as an executive leadership coach. By asking questions, listening, and sharing observations, she brings clients an open heart, keen rigor, and honest support. Coaching is a partnership, so... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
not related to costs imposes huge burdens on the system today. Having multiple prices drives up administrative costs. Patients covered by the public sector are subsidized by private-sector patients. And within the private sector, patients... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Ameel Somani
1970s, government nationalization took it all, leaving the family with "nothing." But Ameel's father responded with entrepreneurship in Canada, creating a chain of optical/eye glass shops. "I've always been inspired by my... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
extraordinary for the access it provided alumni to senior HBS faculty as well as to European business and government leaders. It’s one of the School’s great strengths that it can assemble so many of the world’s top business minds.... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
effects of climate change—as well as many, varied government policies trying to mitigate its effects—are also inspiring technological innovations that will give rise to new products, services, and business models in the coming years. How... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
Critics have denounced this proposal as yet another government intrusion into the market and a futile attempt to "pick winners." What these critics ignore is that the US government has a long... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
Recovery Act, one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signature New Deal programs that looked to create “partnership in planning” between government and organized private industry. A year later, however, it... View Details