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  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

  Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • Student-Profile

Hummy Song

I became passionate about health policy and operations management while I was working with community health worker programs in rural Uganda. I witnessed firsthand the gaps in coordination that needed to be bridged, and spent a lot of time... View Details
  • Student-Profile

Olivia Zhao

mined from a day on the diamond. “I’ve loved baseball since I was a very small child,” she says. “I also have played softball all my life—currently I’m on the Harvard health policy team. Whether watching or playing, sports are a social... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

change, we will continue to further destroy the planet and further cement inequality. This is why my hope is that President Biden and his team will implement a set of policies that will put human beings and the planet back at the core of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

strong—and mainly Chinese-dominated—business class. In this context, FDI as well as public sector firms proved very valuable in a political sense. Huang stresses that he does not question the political rationale behind those View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

are politically infeasible for public insurance. For example, they could offer policies that transport members for care from high-cost locations to high-quality, low-cost ones. View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • March 2012
  • Article

Reviving Entrepreneurship

By: Josh Lerner and William Sahlman
New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Policy; Economy; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • 20 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

activism on climate change, where corporate executives of firms who don’t stand to profit from doing so nonetheless call for public policies to address the climate. In the US, View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing
  • 20 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • February 1980 (Revised November 1981)
  • Case

Work of a Regulatory Agency: The EPA and Toxic Substances

By: J. Ronald Fox and Lynne O. Cabot
Keywords: Government Administration; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses.... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health
  • July 1990 (Revised September 1995)
  • Case

Singapore TradeNet: A Tale of One City

Describes the development of a new information technology-based trade document administration environment for the city-state of Singapore. A considerable effort, involving many governmental and private sector organizations, results in a new set of practices and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Information Technology; Emerging Markets; Policy; Public Administration Industry; Singapore
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  • Profile

Naiyya Saggi

strongly believe core aspects of best practices can be shared: between the private and the public sector, between geographies and among governments. In an increasingly globalized world, I can't wait to radically improve this dialogue... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Consulting
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

bungles things when it wades into the private sector. Lerner's book studies where public efforts to spur entrepreneurial activity have gone right and wrong—there are many more of the latter, the author acknowledges—and offers View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Sweden have received unprecedented support in national elections by running on anti-immigrant platforms. Yet, none of this is new. A century ago, mounting public pressure prompted Congress to pass the Immigration Act of 1924, which ended... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 15 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

costly failures. The book seeks to provide guidance to would-be "emulators"—corporate managers, university administrators, and policy makers—about how to adopt the best of venture capital and avoid the common pitfalls that... View Details
Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

    Charles R. Hook

    Hook is known more for his progressive employment practices than for building Armco into the leading producer of sheet metal. He was an advocate of full-disclosure and loyalty policies towards employees and was also active in the field of... View Details
    Keywords: Metals
    • 26 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

    Policy Officer A. G. Breitenstein. PrivaSource integrates and "scrubs" healthcare data for pharma, biotech, and healthcare companies so that it is meaningful to them scientifically. At the same time individual patients are... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 13 May 2014
    • Op-Ed

    The Alibaba Effect

    guessing among them and probably an eventual change in policies and views. Losing Alibaba really stung.) Alibaba was founded in 1999 in the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province in eastern China. In those early days, it was a small,... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail
    • 22 Sep 2014
    • Op-Ed

    Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

    sources—both large and small banks—has yet to return to pre-recession levels. This has created policy challenges for lawmakers and regulators, and also, I believe, economic challenges when it comes to the tepid job growth we have... View Details
    Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services