Publications

Teaching Note for (9-796-161). View Details

Keywords: United States

2004
Book

When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager

Keywords: Failure; Government and Politics; Risk Management

2005
Working Paper

Macro for Managers

This note attempts to provide a conceptual overview of macroeconomics. Designed for managers and students of management, it emphasizes fundamental ideas and relationships, rather than mathematical models and formulas. The note identifies—and is structured around—three... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Money; Relationships; Performance Expectations

1997
Working Paper

Courting Disaster? The Transformation of Federal Disaster Policy Since 1803

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Books

practical guidance. The conditions they have always faced—intense competition, scarce resources, and unforgiving markets—are true now for everyone. Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It edited by Daniel Carpenter and View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Mar 2010
News

Faculty Books

stakeholders detailed results and improve the level of dialogue and engagement with them. Senior Lecturer Eccles and his coauthor show how integrated reporting adds value to a company and contributes to a sustainable society. New Perspectives on Regulation edited by... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

29 Jan 2010
News

Back to Glass-Steagall?

collateralized debt obligations or derivatives, that contributed mightily to the financial market meltdown in 2008. So the question arises, would the Volker Rule really prevent another financial crisis? HBS professor David View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Government

06 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 6

relative to financially under-developed ones. Mergers That Stick Authors:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009) An abstract is unavailable. Purchase the article:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Research Summary

Financial Innovation and Financial Crisis in Historical Perspective

This line of research aims to inform our understanding of modern financial challenges and vulnerabilities by reexamining important financial innovations and financial crises of the past, with particular but not exclusive attention to U.S. financial history. View Details

March 2012
Article

Fixing What's Wrong with U. S. Politics

In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working? Research shows that in Congress, Republicans and Democrats are... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; System; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States

January 2004
Supplement

Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Economy; United States

January 2004
Case

Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Policy; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Problems and Challenges; Urban Development; United States

Educators

summer 1994
Article

Kindling a Flame under Federalism: Progressive Reformers, Corporate Elites, and the Phosphorous Match Campaign of 1909-12

Keywords: Government and Politics; History

April 1999
Case

French Pension System, The: On The Verge Of Retirement? (Abridged)

Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details

Keywords: Retirement; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Economic Growth; Economics; Capital Markets; Wages; Public Administration Industry; France

Educators

October 2002
Book Review

Book Review of Beatrix Hoffman's The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Health Industry; United States

1996
Working Paper

Government, Markets, and Uncertainty: An Historical Approach to Public Risk Management in the United States

23 Feb 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see... View Details

Keywords: April White

2013
Other Unpublished Work

Labor, Capital, and Government: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano

June 2011
Case

Fighting a Dangerous Financial Fire: The Federal Response to the Crisis of 2007-2009

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton

By the summer of 2009, many observers concluded that a catastrophic financial collapse- which seemed all but imminent the previous fall and winter - had been averted. Although the recession had still yet to be declared over and the economy's footing remained far from... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Policy; Knowledge Acquisition

Educators