Public Administration - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

There I met with a representative from Education Pioneers, an organization that places MBAs into the education sector at public or charter school systems, departments of education, ed-tech companies, or other education-related... View Details

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health Policy... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

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By: Brian L. Trelstad

The focus of my research is on the systems of social innovation. How small groups of individuals come up with new products and services targeting important problems; how they finance these initial efforts, and convert prototypes into viable organizational strategies;... View Details

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4.6 HBS Campus Demonstration Policy - MBA

platform, attach signage to the exterior of HBS structures, or in other ways alter a campus space without prior permission, secured during the registration process. Use megaphones or other amplified sound. Using public safety as their... View Details

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
News

A Student Plan Goes to Washington

charter the CGC, while funding would come predominantly from public investors. To launch the college, the proposal seeks a congressional mandate to require companies receiving federal TARP bailout money to allocate three board seats to... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “You are losing hundreds of billions in raw economic activity each month—and that’s not even accounting for all the other forms of loss the pandemic has caused. So you can put a lot... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Sep 2003
News

Andrea Silbert

many people who were living on the margins of society.” She also found the work at HBS challenging. “I think HBS is a very rigorous place academically, and I think that’s what makes it great,” she observes. By the time she graduated, with a joint degree in View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

September–October 2015
Article

Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces

By: Jesse Shore, Ethan Bernstein and David Lazer

Using data from a novel laboratory experiment on complex problem solving in which we varied the structure of 16-person networks, we investigate how an organization's network structure shapes performance of problem-solving tasks. Problem solving, we argue, involves both... View Details

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01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Books

Johnson. Understanding College and University Organization: Theories for Effective Policy and Practice. 2 vols. by James L. Bess (MBA ’60) and Jay R. Dee (Stylus Publishing) The authors aim to show how college and university View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Jun 2000
News

Professors Fox, Mace Remembered

Division of Research from 1953 to 1968, died on March 14. He was 92. Fox joined the HBS faculty in 1949 and served at the School for 25 years. He was the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration from 1955 to 1967, and from... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

technology, and logistics. Of all the project’s phases, however, transportation is the issue that really gets Mawilmada going, the one that, in his mind, will be a complete game changer. It’s something he’s spent countless hours on, sitting in meetings, speaking in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

01 Dec 2006
News

The Hard Way

Centre. “It was time to cash in on my public profile and cement the connection in people’s minds between training and job placement and Sarina Russo,” she explains. To fill the center’s nine vacant floors, Russo won government contracts... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

encourage voter turnout among customers, similar to Facebook's Election Day notifications or Lyft’s discounted rides to polling stations. Support election administration by donating resources such as ballot boxes, office supplies, and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jun 2009
News

Bright Future for Green Business

solve your water problem, but only if you have abundant energy. Nordan believes the current financing system for start-ups — angel to venture investors, followed by a public offering — doesn’t work well for green tech, which takes more... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

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Online Harassment | About

administrative unit. Moving forward, we will learn from the implementation of these existing policies as applied to doxing, and we will seek input from faculty, students, and staff with a view toward revising this guidance as appropriate... View Details

19 Nov 2014
News

The Power of Yes

“smartest” and most cost-effective cause—in all likelihood not a panhandler on the street) and the spirit of service and giving that he considered an equally vital aspect of his work. “It was a personal exploration that became more public... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

The FBI has ordered Apple’s help unlocking an alleged terrorist’s iPhone. The company has opposed the request and turned to the court of public opinion for help with a verdict. As a House Judiciary Committee hearing gets underway this... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

drug and the FDA says it is safe and effective and doctors prescribe it, insurance generally will pay for it. But everyone is getting fed up with that approach—the ‘Pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli did not help—and we’ve reached a critical mass of View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

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2.3.6 Dangerous Weapons & Threats - MBA

imprisonment. Whoever willfully communicates or causes to be communicated such a threat thereby causing either the evacuation or serious disruption of a school, school related event, school transportation, or a dwelling, building, place of assembly, facility or View Details

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