Private Sector Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jan 2017
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Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

lacking private sector experience, I was also pushed to develop more effective strategies for translating the business case for equity and inclusion. My final year provided... View Details

01 Aug 2001
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Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)

an invitation to join the HBS faculty. He taught the School's first agribusiness course, which from the outset, Goldberg recalls, was intended to take "an integrated approach to studying all aspects of this complex sector of the world... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; John H. Davis; Scientific Research and Development Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

May 2004 (Revised November 2005)
Case

Turkey: Securing Stability in a Rough Neighborhood

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Emily Thompson

After suffering years of volatility and crises, Turkey desperately sought macroeconomic and political stability in an ever-worsening region of the world. In the short term, Turkey had to repay its debt, which amounted to more than 80% of GDP. By January 2004, Turkey... View Details

Keywords: Public Sector; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; International Finance; Privatization; Religion; Turkey; European Union

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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

industrial strategy requires new public, public-private, and private institutions that help build and scale clean tech markets. For instance, governments are scaling programs to invest in clean tech manufacturing and deployment. They also... View Details

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Henry McCance

Greylock recommended Timothy Armour (MBA 1975) to McCance as a potential consultant. Armour, who had some 20 years’ experience in development and operations at nonprofits, including Harvard Business School, met with McCance over dinner.... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Zach Komes Archives | Social Enterprise

Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public View Details

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Katie Laidlaw

and career path? HBS introduced me to more industries, jobs, companies, and roles than I thought possible. It helped me understand how private sector frameworks and analysis can be applied successfully in... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

September 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Bharti Tele-Ventures

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Ingrid Vargas

Following the liberalization of India's telecommunications service industry in the early 1990s, Bharti Tele-Ventures grew from a small entrepreneurial telephone equipment importer and manufacturer to become India's largest private-sector telecommunications service... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Growth and Development; Customers; Foreign Direct Investment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Competition; Public Ownership; Profit; Partners and Partnerships; Rank and Position; Telecommunications Industry; India

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Ryan Kim

independent sponsor private equity firm and completed a self-funded search to buy a regional automotive installation services business which he operated as President. Prior to that, Ryan worked in large and mid cap View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity; Private Equity

17 Mar 2020
News

A Bid for the Future

development in Louisiana, a prime vantage point at the intersection of the public and private sectors that allowed him to “envision a future state and bring it to life.” In his... View Details

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Ben Faw

more private sector experience. Through a friend of a friend, he found an opportunity at Tesla Motors where he worked on global supply chain coordination. “I was impressed by what Elon Musk was trying to do... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Technology; Manufacturing

16 Jun 2017
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What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?

social-sector organizations with access to analytic and strategic talent to deliver high-impact results Encouraging emerging leaders to develop an appreciation for and understanding of the complexities of leading in the social View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

collaborative, and characterized by public and private partnerships. Those who are responding to society's needs are succeeding; those who are not are losing out. The food system's greatest growth area is the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2018
News

An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

facility. Now Mobius is about to embark on an ambitious growth plan by opening a new factory. With $20 million in investments and loans to date, the company designed, built, and sold their proof of concept, then developed the Mobius II... View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

at worst. "While deregulation and privatization are indeed reshaping incentives and altering the competitive environment in many markets, the state is not 'withering away.' Success in deregulated and View Details

28 Jul 2015
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Nairobi Love: Heading Home

questions of development, public policy, and politics have always pulled me. But having studied economics for my bachelor's, and then working with McKinsey thereafter reaffirmed that I have a private sector... View Details

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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

throughout your career to pursue your passions wherever they may lead. Eligible Loans To be considered for any of the three HBS loan reduction programs (Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees, Rock... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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Student Snapshot

gave up. What are your post-HBS plans? I plan to stay in this sector my entire life. I’d like to use Catalyst Alliance as a means to attract more MBAs into social nterprise — I want to contribute to making it as appealing as the View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; Catalyst Alliance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

December 2023
Teaching Note

Three Decades of Cluster Policy in Catalonia: What's Next?

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

The TN provides conceptual background and a suggested teaching plan for using the HBS case 724-404. It discusses the concepts and issues related to the main teaching objectives of the case, i.e. the nature and effective structuring of cluster-based economic... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Government and Politics; Policy; Development Economics; Spain

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