BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Private Enterprise
- business or industry that is controlled by companies or individuals rather than the government
Additional Resources
- Eradicating Poverty Takes Private Enterprise
- About 40 percent of the world's 6 billion inhabitants earn $2 a day or less. Typically we have tried to wipe away poverty through initiatives by government, non-governmental organizations and philanthropists. Despite their efforts poverty remains widespread. What more can be done? Harvard Business School senior lecturer...
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- NEWLAND TO INVEST IN A GERMAN PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
- AsiaInfo Services 11-25-2003 Newland to Invest in a German Private Enterprise CHINA, Nov 25, 2003 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Fujian Newland Science & Technology Group Newland (Shenzhen Stock Exchange: 000997) announced on November 21, it would spend USD 10 million on...
- Research articles 2003-11-25
- WORLD BANK TO OFFER FUND FOR PRIVATE ENTERPRISE
- AsiaInfo Services 06-11-2004 World Bank to Offer Fund for Private Enterprise SHANXI, Jun 11, 2004 SinoCast via COMTEX -- The International Finance Corporation IFC has signed an agreement with Shanxi Antai Group Co., Ltd. Antai to provide AsiaInfo Services...
- Research articles 2004-06-11
- Cuban-American group proposes fund to help private enterprise in Cuba
- MIAMI AFP — Cuban-American business leaders on Friday called for the creation of a 300 million dollar fund to help build private enterprise in Cuba once the communist-run state adopts what they called "inevitable" reforms. The proposal, presented at a conference in Miami, is based on the Enterprise Funds...
- Research articles 2007-08-03
- Gov't urges private enterprise to play a pro-active role in holding back a recession.
- Byline: Stefanie Ives Private initiatives not the government must play a key role in fending off a recession The Treasury has urged private enterprise to take the lead in handling the credit crisis, while the Bank of England has said that a...
- Research articles 2008-04-24
- Fujitsu installs world's largest private enterprise supercomputer system for Toyota Motor Corp.; Fujitsu VPP5000 Series HPC Server to help Toyota slash new vehicle development time.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-9 March 2000-FUJITSU: Fujitsu installs world's largest private enterprise supercomputer system for Toyota Motor Corp.; Fujitsu VPP5000 Series HPC Server to help Toyota slash new vehicle development time C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09032000 Tokyo, Japan -- Fujitsu...
- Research articles 2000-03-09
- BMW, BENZ, AUDI, AND ACCORD ARE MOST FAVORED BY PRIVATE BOSSES
- AsiaInfo Services 08-28-2002 BMW, Benz, Audi, and Accord Are Most Favored by Private Bosses BEIJING, Aug 28, 2002 AsiaPort via COMTEX -- Imported automobiles are favored by private enterprise owner, and BMW, Benz, Audi, and Honda Accord are t AsiaInfo...
- Research articles 2002-08-28
- LAWSON SOFTWARE: Red Herring selects Lawson as "The Strongest Private ERP Company" in Herring 100.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-24 August 1998-LAWSON SOFTWARE: Red Herring selects Lawson as "The Strongest Private Enterprise Resource Planning Company" in Herring 100 C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:240898 * Lawson named among top 50 private technology companies worldwide Lawson Software, The Global...
- Research articles 1998-08-24
- Rebuilding Media in the Private Sector
- Since posting one of my most popular columns ever here at BNET on Thursday, commenting on the layoffs at NPR, I have been flooded, ironically, with comments and inquiries about whether a possible solution to the current catastrophe sweeping traditional media might just be the non-profit business model employed by...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- PRIVATE ENTERPRISE; RETAILERS ARE STEPPING UP THE EMPHASIS ON PROPRIETARY BRANDS EXPANDING PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAMS AND SOURCING MORE FROM OVERSEAS.
- NEW YORK-Retailers are working to build a better private-label mousetrap. As merchants beef up their proprietary collections, retailers such as J.C. Penney, Wal-Mart, Saks Department Store Group and Bloomingdale's are relying less on domestic vendors by controlling the entire private-label process. Retail chains...
- Research articles 2003-01-27
- First private oil group in China.(Oil Industry Chamber of Commerce plans for Great Wall United Oil Group Corporation)(Brief Article)
- The first private oil group in China will be established in June. The company will be engaged in oil exploration and production, a sector always controlled by large state-owned oil enterprises. According to the information disclosed by the director of the Oil Industry...
- Research articles 2005-06-16
- Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Strategies in Transition Economies: An Institutional Perspective
- Entrepreneurship in transition countries plays an important role in facilitating the shift from a centrally planned economy towards a market-based economy. Empirical evidence shows that entrepreneurship under transition conditions takes a variety of different forms and enterprises use various distinctive strategies, reflecting the challenging role for private enterprise in these...
- White papers 2001-09-14
- Chinese Enterprise Competitiveness in an Age of Global Integration
- China over the past two decades has achieved extraordinary growth and impressive integration into the global economy. In one sense, China has been undergoing a systemic transformation from plan to market, one that has included the freeing up of markets for goods and services, the liberalization of prices, and ultimately...
- White papers 2005-01-11
- Top military officer: DoD solutions to logistics challenges are in private sector - Department of Defense - Brief Article
- When Gen. Henry H. Shelton gives a speech, he likes to talk about the "art of the possible." In meeting the challenges of the 21st century, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the military transportation and logistics community can learn a lot from private enterprise. "I...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- Public and private team up to build AMC success.
- Sep 25, 2003 (Oil & Gas Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Marine Complex AMC in Western Australia is a partnership involving private enterprise and government infrastructure. Set to become a centre for marine engineering, the AMC is in effect four complementary precincts....
- Research articles 2003-09-25
- Will Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud Be Private Enough?
- Amazon last night announced it Virtual Private Cloud service, essentially giving enterprise customers worried about security and control in the cloud a salve to get them to trust it. The offering provides access to Amazon's web services through a virtual private network, which is basically a secure tunnel through the...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Amazon Bridges Corporate IT with the Cloud via New Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Service
- Amazon Web Services AWS LLC, an Amazon.com company, has announced a limited public beta of its new Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Amazon VPC service, a secure and seamless bridge between a company?s existing IT infrastructure and the AWS cloud. The service helps enterprises overcome a major obstacle to adoption of...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Enterprise agency seeks private sector bidders to develop GBP20 million project.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-5 September 2000-SCOTTISH ENTERPRISE: Enterprise agency seeks private sector bidders to develop GBP20 million project C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05092000 A GBP20 million project to develop key sites across central Scotland has been launched by Scottish Enterprise. ...
- Research articles 2000-09-05
- New Enterprise Associates Inducted into Private Equity Hall of Fame; Sole VC Firm Inducted at Private Equity Analyst's 10th Anniversary Conference
- RESTON, Va. -- New Enterprise Associates NEA was inducted into the Private Equity Hall of Fame earlier this week during the Private Equity Analyst Conference 10th Anniversary celebration in New York City. The award is made in recognition of exemplary and enduring contributions to the Private Equity Community by Private...
- Research articles 2004-09-24
- Verizon, AT&T Blocking Rural Broadband Stimulus?
- Verizon, Comcast, AT&T and other large wireless carriers and cable companies are behind lobbying efforts in state legislatures around the country to prohibit local governments from using federal stimulus money to build and manage their own broadband networks, critics contend. So far, they seem to be succeeding. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-01
