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- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
educating them to invent a difference in the world as public leaders and as people who collaborate with them. “I would love it if, a decade from now and maybe sooner, people thought about becoming public... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding that, as HBS professor James E.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
issues that should be left to government? Ince: One of the profound changes over the last 25 years has been the gradual shift of power from the public to the private sector. The assumption has been that the private View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
programs and around 5,000 in its executive education programs, INCAE — which opened a Costa Rica campus in 1984 — has sent thousands of graduates into leadership positions in the private sector as well as to many important government,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
the public sector in its data collection and analysis, expanding its reach to 60 percent of workers.) Almost a decade’s worth of data shows progress, says Wooldridge, but not enough. “In Australia, what we... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
global-poverty problem, which is what IGD has done, is an important step that the public sector would be wise to study. One thing stands in the way: lack of a broad-based understanding in the business... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
emergency relief and support community development and civil society initiatives. "There's a direct connection between economic and social stability. September 11 pushed NGOs into the gray area of politics." The sector needs new ideas and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Global Forum Set for June
THE BUILDING MUSEUM: Site of a GLF "State Dinner" Upcoming midterm elections and ongoing political scandals provide a timely backdrop to the 2006 HBS Global Leadership Forum, titled The Private Sector and the View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
Could Kurt Summers Jr. Be Chicago’s Next Mayor?
Summers as a potential 2019 challenger to current mayor Rahm Emanuel or a contender for the Illinois governorship. Summers, who aspired from a young age to be an investment banker and worked at Goldman Sachs before joining the public... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Short Takes
enhances business performance as well. "Community involvement can contribute to the definition and development of a company's organizational culture, which is an important determinant of corporate performance," he observes. "Volunteering in the View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
these problems on their own; the private sector would need to step up as well. Kauss paid attention. “I actually talked to the professor after the presentation and told him how inspired I was,” she recalls. So inspired, in fact, that two... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Capitalism Constrained: Public Policy and the Manager, examines the role of the state in five economic sectors: energy, communications, transportation, health, and the environment. "Deregulation, with roots in the U.S. political economy... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
University. As a junior, he was elected student-body president, a role that included serving on a state government reform commission tasked with understanding how public policy decisions had limited Louisiana’s potential. When he applied... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
supported the HBS Fund since she graduated. Business was not a path she considered as a child. At the age of 10, Ma, her younger sister, and her parents emigrated from Beijing to New York. Attending public schools and not speaking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
his experience in Washington, he notes that “there is tremendous honor in being a public servant, and bringing business skills to the public sector is critical.” In the... View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- News
Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars of capital. Today, Radio One is the largest African-American broadcasting company in the United States,” he says. “That’s where I... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
headquarters in Washington. You chose to become head of one of America's least popular institutions. Why? A number of factors had coalesced -- public discontent, mounting congressional criticism, technological advances, to name a few.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
overworked, yet there's a huge gap in quality training for them." —Anthony Priest (MBA 1996) Program Specialist, Office of Career and Technical Education, District of Columbia Public Schools Marc Sternberg (MBA 2000) Senior Deputy... View Details
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
Building Cities, spent two weeks in Ethiopia and Tanzania exploring ways the private sector could help finance and operate public infrastructure to achieve better outcomes. In August 2016, in partnership... View Details