Private Sector Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2011
News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

sector mortgage market without any government backing. Why don’t you favor that approach? The vast majority of mortgage credit can be provided by the private sector without... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

Jul 2014
Working Paper

The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately... View Details

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

startup in govtech or a public sector group at a large company working on public sector cloud solutions, for example. Another reason is that people not in government, such as View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

March 2019
Supplement

KITEA (B): Getting Ready to Face IKEA

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in September 2015, when IKEA is about to open its first store in Morocco. It then chronicles the efforts of KITEA CEO Amine Benkirane and his son Othman between 2013 and 2015 to prepare KITEA for IKEA’s entry. After incurring losses for the first time in... View Details

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March 2019
Teaching Note

KITEA (A)—(F)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman

This Teaching Note accompanies the KITEA series of cases, which details how the Moroccan furniture company KITEA prepared for the entry of IKEA into the Moroccan market and describes the outcome of that entry. View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Retail Industry; Africa; North Africa; Morocco

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01 Jun 2015
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Leadership on a Global Stage

wanted to prepare myself to be a leader in both public and private sector organizations,” Jefferson says, “so I felt it was important to learn about leadership from both sides of the Charles River.” His next... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jun 1997
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Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating service businesses in highly... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
Teaching Note

Lincoln Financial Meets the Financial Crisis (TN)

By: Robert C. Pozen

Teaching Note for 310137. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Decisions; Capital; Cost; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Insurance; Insurance Industry

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July 2007
Teaching Note

Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (TN)

By: Eric D. Werker

Teaching Note to 707019. View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Investment; Decisions; Economic Growth; Private Sector; Balance and Stability; South Africa

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03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

which we take collaboration to the level of megacommunities from the private and public sectors working together to solve large-scale social problems." Others, including Jay Somasundaram, wonder about... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

November 1999 (Revised April 2002)
Case

International Business Machines Corporation (B)

By: David F. Hawkins

IBM changes pension plan from a defined benefit plan to a cash-balance plan. Teaching purpose: To understand pension accounting. View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Transformation; Business Earnings; Private Sector; Personal Finance; Cash; Information Infrastructure; Taxation; Computer Industry; Accounting Industry

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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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Eligibility | New Venture Competition

Eligibility Social Enterprise Track Course Listing Business at the Base of the Pyramid (HBS) Data for Impact (HBS) Education Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective (HGSE) Entrepreneurial Solutions (HBS) Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

the idea to develop such a course? The inspiration came to me ten years ago, about the time I got tenure. As I reflected on my post-tenure plans, I wrote about my interest in how the financial sector works... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

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Real Property - Course Catalog

equity syndications, mortgages, REITs, and private credit. These examples also reinforce development processes, deal structures, and capital strategies. Module 4: Trends and Innovation Explores... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

A Market-Based Prescription

profitable, while areas such as emergency medicine and burn care are undervalued. In a consumer-driven system, market forces would operate to correct these disparities and create greater incentives for physicians to customize therapies and View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

28 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Real Estate

TrustNori Gerardo, Partner, Chief Strategist, Private Real Estate Investment Management Partners GroupScott Malkin, Chairman, Value Retail PLCBill Poorvu, MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus, HBSArthur Segel,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson; Construction; Real Estate

Profile

Margo Cramer

"I was the key point of contact to explain the system and connect people to resources," Margo says. Crossing private and public sectors After a year in the DA's office, Margo reviewed her work... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; Retail/Hospitality

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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Brothers, stretching over a century and a half, reflects the role of investment banking in the development and growth of the U.S. economy. Founded in the mid-nineteenth century, the family partnership evolved from a general store to a... View Details

November 1999 (Revised November 2000)
Case

International Business Machines Corporation (C)

By: David F. Hawkins

A financial analyst is examining IBM's 1998 tax note to understand better how the company's 1998 tax note was determined. Teaching purpose: Illustrates deferred tax accounting. View Details