Sectorization - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

proactively reduce the uncertainty for themselves and their ecosystems by preempting the effects of COVID-19 even before contagion arrived in their countries. Faced with the emergence of conflicting safety protocols across the regions where they operated, companies... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are generally sound, and hedge funds... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

Immediately after graduation, a significant majority of the graduates of the leading two-year, full-time MBA programs take jobs in financial services and consulting, driven in part by financial rewards that make it very difficult for companies in other View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

2011
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How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior

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25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

add up. To Young, that speaks to a broader need for government intervention in situations where intentionally discriminatory policies have caused real estate markets to fail. “Government has to play where the market doesn’t,” contends Young, who argues that the public... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

EDT + More Info – Less Info The business of space is undergoing a historic transformation, with implications for all of us as individuals and our organizations. How can you better understand what’s changing in the space sector and why it... View Details

15 Apr 2017
News

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes For 25 years, David Brunell (MBA 1962) has worked in private sector development all over the world, transforming centralized economies to market-based economies in 20... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

projects the private sector was planning to do on its own. The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933 is perhaps the most famous example of this. Other dollars appear to indirectly crowd out private firms by hiring away employees and the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jun 2019
News

Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa

100 jobs. Many of them, specifically in Senegal, have been able to raise funding both from the public sector and also from private investors, angel investors, and VC investors. “Now, when you look at the private View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Living Social

at the forefront of testing new models of high-impact philanthropy. The new trend is midcareer and late-career professionals who have had great success in business and are now looking for a more impact-driven career. People will take a lot of different paths. My... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

1977
Other Unpublished Work

Indexing Social Security: An Analysis of the Issues

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Insurance; Public Sector

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June 2006 (Revised February 2007)
Teaching Note

Private Capital and Public Policy: Standard & Poor's Sovereign Credit Ratings (TN)

By: Rawi E. Abdelal

Keywords: Public Sector; Credit; Financial Services Industry

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08 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

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Public Purpose and Accountability in the Indian State

By: Akshay Mangla

Keywords: Accountability; India; Corporate Accountability; Public Sector; India

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1992
Other Unpublished Work

By Choice or By Chance? Tracking the Values in Massachusetts' Public Spending

By: Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Spending; Public Sector; Value; Massachusetts

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December 2000 (Revised January 2001)
Background Note

Promise of Functional Foods, The

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Laure Mougeot Stroock

This case presents a definition of functional foods or nutraceuticals (food or food ingredients that could provide a health benefit beyond the traditional nutrients they contain), a description of some of the major obstacles to their commercialization and... View Details

Keywords: Food; Private Sector; Public Sector; Health; Product Development; Production; Commercialization; Food and Beverage Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

their respective sectors and possible solutions,” says Diagne. The discussions with the public and private sectors were instrumental in creating an inclusive mechanism and enabled Diagne to quickly grasp the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

July 2015
Background Note

The State of U.S. Public Health: Challenges and Trends

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Howard Koh and Pamela Yatsko

The World Health Organization defines health as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity." For many Americans, the World Health Organization's definition of true health seems unattainable, given... View Details

Keywords: Public Health; Public Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

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June 2011
Case

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 1

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Joel Klein takes over NYC's public schools and begins to reform the nation's largest system by depoliticizing, rationalizing management, and confronting the union so that the focus is on the kids. View Details

Keywords: Public Sector; Organizations; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Management

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