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  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

had full access to corporate archives and executives and provides us with a unique insight into the workings and strategies of one of the world's oldest and largest multinationals. Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution As a System of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2021
  • Supplement

What Went Wrong with Boeing’s 737 Max? (B)

By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
Following the March 10, 2019, crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302, en route to Nairobi, Kenya and the October 29, 2018, downing of Lion Air flight 610 as it took off from Jakarta, Indonesia, Boeing’s 737 Max jet, the model flown in both instances, was grounded by... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leadership; Management; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Failure; Transportation; Air Transportation; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; North America; United States
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  • November 1994 (Revised December 1995)
  • Case

Scripps Research Institute, The: November 1993 (Abridged)

By: Josh Lerner
In November 1993, Dr. Richard Lerner, president of the Scripps Research Institute, faces the challenge of maintaining his organization's financial and scientific vitality. A proposed cooperative venture with Sandoz has attracted considerable criticism. Meanwhile, a new... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Financing and Loans; Policy; Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Research; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • 25 Jun 2022
  • News

CEOs Didn’t Make the Roe Decision. It’s Still Their Problem to Solve.

  • April 2017
  • Case

The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Telework; Collaborating With Unions; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Trademarks; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; District of Columbia
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  • September 1992 (Revised October 1992)
  • Case

Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
In addition to the issues of expected cost minimization elucidated in Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A), problems involving regulatory uncertainty are critical to the firm's Clean Air Act compliance strategy. The regulatory uncertainty affects, and is affected by, the... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Government Relations; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government
    • Article

    Memos to the President from a 'Council of Psychological Science Advisers'

    By: Bethany A. Teachman, Michael I. Norton and Barbara A. Spellman
    On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive departments and agencies use "behavioral science insights to better serve the American people." The articles in this special section were already in press when the order was... View Details
    Keywords: Social Psychology; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • January 2024
    • Case

    Post-Wirecard: BaFin under Mark Branson

    By: Jonas Heese, Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    In November 2023, Mark Branson, the head of Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), reflected on the efficacy of the reforms initiated since the Wirecard scandal. BaFin had been discredited after Wirecard’s downfall in 2020. The press had derided it... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Crime and Corruption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Administration; Failure; Trust; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; Germany
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    • 10 Dec 2021
    • News

    New NYC Law Restricts Hiring Based on Artificial Intelligence

    • 02 Jan 2019
    • What Do You Think?

    SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

    with sarcasm, “How could the federal government possibly fail to make the development of AI better?” Ramesh, similarly skeptical, nevertheless suggested what sounded like some kind of non-governmental effort... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
    • 19 Oct 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

    research—and how academics could better help improve the work of government. The workshop is just one example of how HBS scholars are using their research to make a difference in government policy. Some, like Michael E. Porter or View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 2009
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises

    By: David Moss and Cole Bolton
    In early April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence were slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and inflation was rising. In... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Central Banking; Interest Rates; International Finance; Policy; Crisis Management; Europe
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    • 05 Dec 2016
    • News

    What Trump Didn't Learn From the Financial Crisis

    • 23 Jun 2020
    • Book

    Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

    result, write the authors, is a polarized government unable to compromise to solve the nation's greatest problems or realize its highest aspirations. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2013 (Revised September 2013)
    • Case

    New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for Economic Development

    By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels and Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo
    Traces the economic development of New York City from its founding in the 17th century through 2012. Focuses on the decisions made by New York City officials, past and present, highlighting the challenges of economic development at the city level. Enables deep... View Details
    Keywords: History; Development Economics; Industry Clusters; Policy; Government Administration; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy
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    • 07 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

    still have options, says Mills, who led the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013 and was an Obama cabinet member. Getting through the coming months will require extreme ingenuity and shrewdness from business owners, and additional waves of aid from the... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
    • March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
    • Case

    Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil

    By: Laura Alfaro, Yasheng Huang and Marios S. Kalochoritis
    On January 6, 1999, Itamar Franco, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, the second-largest state in Brazil, declared a 90-day moratorium on its debt payment to the federal government. The announcement triggered a run on the Brazilian currency, the Real, and... View Details
    Keywords: International Relations; Investment; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Brazil
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    • October 2022
    • Case

    EducationSuperHighway 2.0

    By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean
    In 2012, Evan Marwell launched EducationSuperHighway (ESH) to address a major problem: though most public K-12 schools in the US had access to the Internet, only roughly 30% had true broadband access that would enable every student to have high speed connectivity. ... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Leading Change; Early Childhood Education; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States; San Francisco
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    • February 2024 (Revised May 2024)
    • Case

    Lina Khan at the FTC: Redefining Antitrust in the Age of Big Tech

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Susan Pinckney
    In 2023 and 2024, the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice sued Google, Amazon, and Apple claiming antitrust violations. These lawsuits marked a shift in U.S. antitrust enforcement away from the Chicago School and towards the New Brandeis school of... View Details
    Keywords: Transition; Government Administration; Lawsuits and Litigation; Monopoly; Technology Industry; United States; European Union; China; India
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