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/ E-Commerce 9% Financial Services 10% Health Care / Biotech 8% Manufacturing / Industrial / Energy 9% Media / Entertainment / Travel 4% Military 5% Nonprofit / Government / Education 6% Services 2% Technology 12% Venture Capital / View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
roaring into the modern world. World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It by Pankaj Ghemawat (PhDBE '82) (Harvard Business Review Press) Reacting to the global financial crisis, governments are pushing for increased protectionism.... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the type of organizational form surrounding innovation and influence when innovation is more likely to occur. These factors not only govern how much experimentation is undertaken in the economy, but also the trajectory of experimentation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
analyze conditions under which these attack types are likely to succeed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Unstable Equity? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing Authors:Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do About It Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Princeton University Press, forthcoming Abstract In response to the financial crisis, governments are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
as head of the provincial conservation office—“the fish and wildlife police, basically,” he says. He was in his early 50s and in his 15th year of government work. His career was in stasis, and by 2002, he didn’t necessarily care if it... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
there is action. At the same time it would be a wild dream to believe that private sector investment is going to save the world. Unless the appropriate government participates actively as an investor,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS
partnerships. There, Yoonjin was part of the strategy team collaborating with government entities. Discovering a big opportunity with a smaller startup Yoonjin applied to HBS with the express intention “to continue exploring business... View Details
- Profile
Venus Miller
understand the challenges of education reform from the inside so that I could learn how to apply private sector resources to drive change from the outside. The experience has changed my vision of what I'd like to do." Returning to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Cracks in the Foundation
authors, HBS professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, found reason for hope, arguing that continued erosion of US competitiveness is not inevitable. While there's much that government can and should do, they strongly believe that the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
HBS to recognize social enterprise as a field of study? Clark: As government shrinks, a greater role will have to be played by the private sector. As the world becomes more complex, community-based... 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
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
MaterialsAncora: A Private University in the Health Care of the Poor 306-088 Project Ancora signals the entry of the private sector into primary healthcare for Chile's poor. On a commercial basis, it seeks... 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
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
regulated industry, so anyone who's interested in business and government would be a player. It has a social and ethical component to it. So this is fertile ground to study a lot of other phenomena." The School has assembled a... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
never see in any other hospital. As soon as a heart patient arrives at the border, the colleague alerts Shetty, Shetty alerts the Indian government, the Indian government kicks into high gear, the patient is air-lifted to the hospital,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Governance Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
since you're always asking, I just met two cofounders, and we're going to start the Starbucks of health clinics in Egypt.' " Enan was interested; in Egypt, about 5 percent of the population has private health insurance, mostly as a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance