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- 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
- 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 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 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
Another crucial step would be to ensure that public accounting firms once again become bona fide watchdogs. Too often, lucrative consulting contracts have caused accounting firms to relax their auditing standards to placate management.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
achieve its social mission? "Social entrepreneurship is hard to define, but you know it when you see it," says Georgia Levenson Keohane (MBA 2000). There's a lot to see in it these days, as a kind of social entrepreneurship revolution has exploded across the nonprofit,... 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
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
studying all aspects of the pandemic and are working with business, government, and social sector leaders—as well as with colleagues at Harvard and beyond—to offer insights, strategies, and best practices,” says Gary Pisano, senior... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
to bring new art to public museums by way of private funding—was an idea that Evans found intriguing. "Clearly, this has struck a chord," she says. "Quite simply, we are activating a new sector for... 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
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Thematically, the conference aimed to explore the major challenges of angel investing, managing and growing through a pandemic, as well as expanding opportunity for diverse founders and funders, confronting racial justice, and harnessing View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
manufacturing practices documented in their book, the authors are optimistic about the future of U.S. apparel and textile firms. "This important sector of our economy is more advanced and productive than ever," concludes Hammond. "As Mark... 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
- 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
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
effectively, it was essential that all key public and private sector players work together to deliver payments digitally,” Goodwin-Groen says. “Those companies and governments that took action and can pay... 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 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
across a dozen jurisdictions in Asia. Being educated and having worked in Asia, the United States, and Europe has given me a measure of appreciation of the diversity in cultural and business practices. Moreover, serving on various public... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
planning and strategy at Ford’s Asia Pacific operations in Shanghai and a panelist at HBS’s “Moving the Future” transportation conference this past February. Just as significantly, charging infrastructure is set to get a boost. According to Rich, the lack of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
as we know it.” —Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor “Herd behavior, greed, corruption, stupidity all played a role.” —Robert Glauber (DBA ’65), Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School “There will be... View Details