Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results : (233) Arrow Down
Filter Results : (233) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (3,234)
    • Faculty Publications  (233)

    Show Results For

    • All HBS Web  (3,234)
      • Faculty Publications  (233)

      Public Sector Remove Public Sector →

      Page 1 of 233 Results →

      Are you looking for?

      Private Sector, Public Good
      Should business play a role in supporting public institutions, and perhaps addressing the world's social challenges? When Harvard Professor Rebecca...
      When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
      Summing Up The variety of responses stimulated by this month's column may help explain why our public institutions are so often perceived as...
      → Search All HBS Web
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector

      By: Alexander MacKay and Ignacia Mercadal
      When deciding whether to introduce market-based prices into a regulated market, a regulator faces the following tradeoff: profit incentives may reduce costs through the more efficient allocation of resources, but the presence of market power may lead to increased...  View Details
      Keywords: Deregulation; Market Power; Markups; Prices; Electricity; Energy; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Price
      Citation
      SSRN
      Read Now
      Related
      MacKay, Alexander, and Ignacia Mercadal. "Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-095, February 2021. (Direct download.)
      • March 2021
      • Case

      Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?

      By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Youssef Abdel Aal
      The case follows Ziad Abi Chaker, founder and CEO of Cedar Environmental, an environmental engineering company in Lebanon, as he weighs his options for how to grow the company despite facing barriers to growth, most notably the prevalent public corruption in his...  View Details
      Keywords: Waste Management; Recycling; Sustainability; Corruption; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Business And Government; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Entrepreneurship; Business And Government Relations; Crime And Corruption; Technological Innovation; Growth And Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Green Technology Industry; Middle East; Lebanon
      Citation
      Educators
      Related
      Hsieh, Nien-hê, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?" Harvard Business School Case 321-114, March 2021.
      • March 2021
      • Case

      Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka

      By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
      In February 2018, Nayana Mawilmada (Nayana), investment head for the Sri Lankan government’s ambitious $40 billion Megapolis project, must weigh an attractive job offer to move from the public sector to the private sector. A massive government project aimed at...  View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Making; public sector; Experience And Expertise; Strategic Planning; Work-life Balance; Transportation; Risk And Uncertainty; Power And Influence; Personal Development And Career; Real Estate Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Boston; Virginia; United States
      Citation
      Educators
      Related
      Margolis, Joshua D., and Mahima Rao-Kachroo. "Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka." Harvard Business School Case 421-065, March 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Effects of Local Government Financial Distress: Evidence from Toxic Loans

      By: Boris Vallée and Julien Sauvagnat
      We examine the response from both local governments and their voters to a sudden increase in public debt burden. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the ex post cost of toxic loans, a notorious financial innovation adopted by a large number of local governments....  View Details
      Keywords: Public Debt; Public Investments; Political Contestation; Toxic Loans; Borrowing And Debt; Investment; public sector; Government And Politics; Local Range; Financing And Loans
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Vallée, Boris, and Julien Sauvagnat. "The Effects of Local Government Financial Distress: Evidence from Toxic Loans." Working Paper, February 2021.
      • 2021
      • Book

      We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems

      By: Mitchell Weiss
      The huge public challenges we face are daunting. At the same time, many of us have come to accept the notion that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges—it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Not so. Entrepreneurial savvy in government is growing,...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; public sector; Government Administration; Government And Politics; Technological Innovation; Problems And Challenges; Innovation Leadership; public Administration Industry; Technology Industry
      Citation
      Purchase
      Related
      Weiss, Mitchell. We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

      By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
      The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications...  View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Read Now
      Related
      Silk, Alvin J., and Ernst R. Berndt. "Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28161, December 2020.
      • Article

      Sustainability, Business, and Health

      By: George Serafeim, Amanda M. Rischbieth and Howard K. Koh
      The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has demonstrated that response demands involvement from every sector of society. As a major example, some businesses have stepped up in ways previously unimaginable. Garment companies have repurposed production to face...  View Details
      Keywords: Covid; Covid-19; Sustainability; Health And Wellness; Corporate Social Responsibility; Health Pandemics; Health; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Corporate Accountability; Health Care And Treatment
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Register to Read
      Related
      Serafeim, George, Amanda M. Rischbieth, and Howard K. Koh. "Sustainability, Business, and Health." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 324, no. 2 (July 14, 2020): 147–148.
      • March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
      • Case

      CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France

      By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
      The case discusses the strategy of CIAM, a French activist investment firm, involved in a case of a buy-out of minority shareholders in the telecommunications sector. Altice NV, an international telecommunications company based in the Netherlands that owned more than...  View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Private Equity; Strategy; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Services Industry; France
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Wang, Charles C.Y., Tonia Labruyere, and Vincent Dessain. "CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France." Harvard Business School Case 120-072, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Novel Risks

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Anette Mikes
      All organizations practice some form of risk management to identify and assess routine risks in their operations, supply chains, strategy, and external environment. These risk management policies, however, fail in the presence of novelty. Novel risks arise from...  View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Policy; Failure; Organizational Change And Adaptation
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Kaplan, Robert S., Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, and Anette Mikes. "Novel Risks." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-094, March 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
      • January 2020
      • Case

      Terra Nova: A Social Business Trying to Unlock Land Rights for the Urban Poor in Brazil

      By: Julie Battilana, Ruth Costas, Marissa Kimsey and Priscilla Zogbi
      Brothers André and Daniel Albuquerque founded the company Terra Nova in 2001 to mediate land disputes between poor families illegally living in urban areas and the official landowners—with the aspiration to improve the lives of the poor. A business-led approach to the...  View Details
      Keywords: Mission And Purpose; Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Power And Influence; Social Issues; Conflict And Resolution; Business And Government Relations; Infrastructure; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; Brazil; Latin America
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Battilana, Julie, Ruth Costas, Marissa Kimsey, and Priscilla Zogbi. "Terra Nova: A Social Business Trying to Unlock Land Rights for the Urban Poor in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 420-092, January 2020.
      • November 2019
      • Teaching Note

      Hacking Heroin

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
      This teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on "ideas." The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; public sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Invention; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Health Pandemics; public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati
      Citation
      Purchase
      Related
      Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah Mehta. "Hacking Heroin." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-063, November 2019.
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
      Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and...  View Details
      Keywords: Inclusion; Sustainability; Performance Measures; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Business And Stakeholder Relations
      Citation
      SSRN
      Read Now
      Related
      Kaplan, Robert S., George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat. "Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-050, October 2019.
      • September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
      • Case

      Blenheim Chalcot

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In April 2019, Manoj Badale and Charles Mindenhall, co-founders of Blenheim Chalcot, were contemplating how they might go about developing their portfolio. Since founding the company as an internet consultancy called netdecisions in 1998, Badale and Mindenhall had...  View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Growth And Development Strategy; United Kingdom; United States; India
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Blenheim Chalcot." Harvard Business School Case 720-381, September 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms

      By: Natalia Rigol, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner and Charity Troyer-Moore
      Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program...  View Details
      Keywords: Gender Norms; Economics; Gender; Employment; Income; Societal Protocols; India
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Rigol, Natalia, Erica Field, Rohini Pande, Simone Schaner, and Charity Troyer-Moore. "On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26294, September 2019.
      • July 2019 (Revised May 2020)
      • Supplement

      Piramal e-Swasthya (C): A New Name, Bigger Scope, and Public-Private Partnerships

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
      In 2010, Anand Piramal acquired the Health Management Research Institute (HMRI), a healthcare venture, and merged it with his original digital healthcare startup Piramal e-Swasthya (PeS), so that PeS became Piramal Swasthya. After acquiring HMRI, Piramal Swasthya...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneur; Healthcare; Innovation; Emerging Economies; Scaling; Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Health Care And Treatment; Innovation And Management; Emerging Markets; Growth And Development; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Partners And Partnerships; India
      Citation
      Purchase
      Related
      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Joyce J. Kim. "Piramal e-Swasthya (C): A New Name, Bigger Scope, and Public-Private Partnerships." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-012, July 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
      • 2019
      • Book

      Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner
      There has never been a greater need for long-term investments. And it is increasingly unlikely that the public sector will be willing or able to fill the gap. Those best positioned to address the long-run needs are likely to be the pools of capital in the hands of...  View Details
      Keywords: Long-term Investing; Large Investors; Capital; Investment; Strategic Planning; Problems And Challenges; Opportunities; Society
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Purchase
      Related
      Ivashina, Victoria, and Josh Lerner. Patient Capital: The Challenges and Promises of Long-Term Investing. First ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.
      • January 2019 (Revised November 2019)
      • Case

      Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets

      By: Luis M. Viceira and Eren Kuzucu
      In October 2007, Tarek Sakka and Fouad Dajani launched Ajeej Capital, the first independent investment advisory in the MENA region. Fittingly named ajeej, an Arabic word that translates to “growth and propagation in a chaotic setting,” the firm’s AUM grew from $20...  View Details
      Keywords: Security Selection; Investments; Growth; Culture; Uae; Finance; Asset Management; Emerging Markets; Capital Markets; Investment; Growth Management; Risk Management; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; Dubai; United Arab Emirates; Egypt; North Africa
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Viceira, Luis M., and Eren Kuzucu. "Ajeej Capital: Investing in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 219-029, January 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
      • December 2018 (Revised May 2019)
      • Case

      Bord Bia: Strategically Growing Irish Exports

      By: Jose B. Alvarez, Forest L. Reinhardt and Emer Moloney
      Agriculture was Ireland’s largest indigenous industry. Its agri-food sector was export driven, with almost 90% of production exported. Bord Bia was the Irish government agency charged with the promotion, trade development, and marketing of the Irish food, drink, and...  View Details
      Keywords: Agribusiness; Trends; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Experience And Expertise; Talent And Talent Management; public sector; Trade; Education; Food; Geography; Geographic Location; Rural Scope; Corporate Governance; Government Administration; Information; Knowledge Dissemination; Marketing Channels; Brands And Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Planning; Business And Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; public Opinion; Business Strategy; Diversification; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Food And Beverage Industry; public Administration Industry; Retail Industry; Republic Of Ireland; United Kingdom; Europe
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Alvarez, Jose B., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Emer Moloney. "Bord Bia: Strategically Growing Irish Exports." Harvard Business School Case 519-043, December 2018. (Revised May 2019.)
      • October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
      • Case

      Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

      By: Leslie K. John, Mitchell Weiss and Julia Kelley
      Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

      By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Civictech; Smart Cities; City Innovation; Government Innovation; Privacy; Sidewalk Labs; Dan Doctoroff; Entrepreneurship; public sector; Consumer Behavior; Governance; Business And Government Relations; Innovation And Invention; Technology Industry; public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry; Real Estate Industry; Canada
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      John, Leslie K., Mitchell Weiss, and Julia Kelley. "Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up." Harvard Business School Case 819-024, October 2018. (Revised July 2019.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
      • October 2018
      • Case

      Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets

      By: Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna and Nataliya Langburd Wright
      The case is built around video clips from top business leaders in emerging markets who were interviewed for Harvard Business School’s innovative Creating Emerging Markets oral history project. Corruption is a widespread problem in emerging markets, and this case is...  View Details
      Keywords: Crime And Corruption; Emerging Markets
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Jones, Geoffrey, Tarun Khanna, and Nataliya Langburd Wright. "Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 319-054, October 2018.
      • 1
      • 2
      • …
      • 11
      • 12
      • →

      Are you looking for?

      Private Sector, Public Good
      Should business play a role in supporting public institutions, and perhaps addressing the world's social challenges? When Harvard Professor Rebecca...
      When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
      Summing Up The variety of responses stimulated by this month's column may help explain why our public institutions are so often perceived as...
      → Search All HBS Web
      ǁ
      Campus Map
      Harvard Business School
      Soldiers Field
      Boston, MA 02163
      →Map & Directions
      →More Contact Information
      • Make a Gift
      • Site Map
      • Jobs
      • Harvard University
      • Trademarks
      • Policies
      • Digital Accessibility
      Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College