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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
technology-driven efforts to sway their votes, and from as far away as Russia, according to US government claims. Social media in general and Facebook specifically were the primary weapons of choice. It worked so well that spending by US...
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by George Riedel
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
most recently as a Middle East expert at Oxford University and as chairman of Falcon Intercapital in Geneva, Switzerland. “Most of the Iraqi Governing Council and Cabinet believe in free market principles and the principles of an open...
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- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways forces within capitalism itself might create...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
mechanics of private banking and federal finance correct. Their models are therefore fatally flawed, so their predictions of doom (and inflation) should not be taken seriously.” Is JohnfrmCleveland right? Is modern monetary theory a fancy...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
government and not thought much about. There seems to be an increasing feeling among consumers that much of this ended with the deregulation and privatization of these industries. According to neocritics of...
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by James Heskett
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Courtney Fairbrother
for HBS where she was responsible for engaging students, staff, and faculty in sustainability initiatives across the HBS campus. Prior to working at Harvard, Courtney worked in both the private and public sector on renewable energy...
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Leo Markel
the private and public sectors with the primary goal of harnessing capitalism's power to improve lives. Practically, this means that my work will be focused on emerging and frontier markets; ideally, I'd be working in large countries...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
Batchelor Similarities between submarines, the classroom, and the boardroom Similarities between submarines, the classroom, and the boardroom Richard Kondo Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Blending military...
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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
contracting intensity in privately governed organizations, whereas we expect no such association for publicly governed organizations. We analyze data from California hospitals...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
selected as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at USAID. The program, started in 2010, is overseen by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. It brings dynamic executives from the private sector, nonprofits, and academia...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
“My most rewarding mission.” —Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Richard Kondo (MBA 1999) served as a US Navy Submarine Officer in Japan and later pursued a medical device career in marketing and business...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)
business or the military Gene Markowski Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Lance Batchelor Similarities between submarines, the classroom, and the boardroom Similarities between submarines, the classroom, and...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
While China’s Communist Party still controls the country’s political machinery, the nation’s booming economy is increasingly in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs, with an estimated 70 percent of the nation’s GDP now produced by the private...
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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
software and IT service firms will likely have an inward focus over the next five years and will, therefore, only slowly emerge onto the global market. Working PapersThe Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
rapidly-evolving space sector, he argues, society will have the opportunity to determine the proper roles for government and the private sector nearly from scratch. “The idea of leveraging the View Details
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
Hatchery Chicago will remove these barriers by providing rentable private and shared kitchen space, cold and dry storage, shipping and loading docks, and general meeting and work space. It will also offer industry-specific coaching and...
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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
and—literally—a common language. To me, social enterprise has always been about finding the places where there is a market failure, where neither governments nor the private sector were operating efficiently...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
high-quality transactions to the United States to demonstrate the promise of this instrument,” Palandjian adds. “Social impact bonds have the potential to improve social outcomes at reduced taxpayer expense; shift performance risk away from View Details