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- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
People might be more likely than ever to protest in reaction to a social problem or geopolitical crisis. But do such activist events, even large-scale demonstrations, change public opinion? New research shows that protests rarely change... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Summer 2021
- Article
Predictable Country-level Bias in the Reporting of COVID-19 Deaths
By: Botir Kobilov, Ethan Rouen and George Serafeim
We examine whether a country’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic relate to the downward biasing of the number of reported deaths from COVID-19. Using deviations from historical averages of the total number of monthly deaths within a country, we find that the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Deaths; Reporting; Incentives; Government Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Country; Crisis Management; Outcome or Result; Reports; Policy
Kobilov, Botir, Ethan Rouen, and George Serafeim. "Predictable Country-level Bias in the Reporting of COVID-19 Deaths." Journal of Government and Economics 2 (Summer 2021).
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
responds in the negative. "I knew I would be with Synthes for a certain amount of time, because I had some equity in the company and saw there was huge potential for our products in the United States—if we could survive the first five... View Details
- December 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
City of Charlotte (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The city manager's office in Charlotte, North Carolina, is attempting to align and focus the city's programs and operating departments. City managers, working collaboratively with the elected mayor and city council, have identified five strategic themes to make... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Government Administration; City; Growth and Development Strategy; Adoption; Public Sector; Management Teams; Programs; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; North Carolina
Kaplan, Robert S. "City of Charlotte (A)." Harvard Business School Case 199-036, December 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
raised from private sources of equity and debt financing. According to Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero has resources to support more than $100 trillion... View Details
- January 2013 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Pittsburgh
By: Eric Werker, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy and Andrew Knauer
The case narrates the development of Pittsburgh from the 1940s to 2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, and the... View Details
Keywords: Google; Population; City Growth; Shale; PNC; Tom Murphy; Luke Ravenstahl; Public-private Partnership; Tax Increment Financing; Brownfields; Renaissance; Industry Clusters; Industry Growth; City; Business and Government Relations; Taxation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Nonprofit Organizations; Higher Education; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Pittsburgh
Werker, Eric, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy, and Andrew Knauer. "Pittsburgh." Harvard Business School Case 713-035, January 2013. (Revised October 2015.)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
increasing geopolitical risks. This was a year of uncertainty: There was a new American president inaugurated; big election cycles in France, Germany, and Italy; and the question of Brexit. You would expect all those things to slow the... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 2011
- Working Paper
Why Fears about Municipal Credit Are Overblown
Highly publicized predictions of 50-100 municipal defaults have caused anxiety among municipal bond investors. While there is some chance that negative investor sentiment will lead to further spread widening, the probability of the kind of widespread default that would... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Bonds; Investment Return; City
Bergstresser, Daniel, and Randolph Cohen. "Why Fears about Municipal Credit Are Overblown." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-129, June 2011.
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B12): San Antonio Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Natania Elias and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B8): Minneaoplis-St. Paul Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Praveen Kumar and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
Are financial crises predictable? Former United States Federal Reserve Chair Ben S. Bernanke has had his doubts. Economics can show policymakers “precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong,” he told Princeton University... View Details
- January 2011
- Case
Masdar and Tianjin: Eco-Cities
By: John D. Macomber
Compares Masdar City and Tianjin Eco-City, two high profile "sustainable cities." Each showcases technological and financial innovation. Is it real? Is it replicable and defensible? The case is intended to introduce main concepts and tradeoffs with respect to rapid... View Details
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Public entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, leadership, business and government, cities, artificial intelligence View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
“Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election,” Professors Rawi Abdelal and Rafael Di Tella examine the shifting media landscape and geopolitics that contributed to this moment. Di Tella is an economist who has studied Latin American... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Got Global?
from India to Egypt, there are another 1,200. From his own experiences, Shirazi said he sees more HBS alums in positions where they face HBS counterparts across the table during business negotiations, and in some cases, they even get involved in helping to defuse View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the reciprocal relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
properly? Possibly," she said. "Could they potentially put social pressure on CEOs who are acting badly?" Global Threatens Local Harvard Business School's Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, said that historically in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
in Colorado—including Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrup Grumman, and the US Northern Command center (USNorthCom)—the club saw an opportunity to bring both military and industry leaders together to shed light on the implications of tariffs and unfolding View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
was spotted in 1986 by Alain Gomez (20th PMD), the charismatic chairman of the French electronics giant Thomson, who tapped him as his special assistant. In 1988, Djelic went to the United States to help with a new Thomson acquisition,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- October 2016
- Supplement
Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B)
By: Joshua Margolis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman
The case complements “Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel’s Cellular Market (A),” HBS case number 417-017, which addresses reforms to regulations in Israel’s telecommunications industry initiated and implemented under the leadership of... View Details
Keywords: Market Reform; Political Leadership; Industry Regulation; Regulatory Reforms; Economic Sectors; Private Sector; Public Sector; Values and Beliefs; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Country; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Market Design; Market Participation; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Telecommunications Industry; Communications Industry; Public Administration Industry; Israel
Margolis, Joshua, Amram Migdal, and Kerry Herman. "Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 417-018, October 2016.