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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
that of rigorous enforcer of management-science principles, could coexist with a more personable side, softened by the glow of Camelot. Decisions and policies had to be made regarding history-shaping issues such as the nuclear arms race,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
boards to advising the White House Business Council. Which means that he has spent a lot of time speaking with leaders in both business and government about the factors that are driving their organizations’ strategy. Over the last several... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
through the economy, managing the economy. And what are they not going to be good at? Policy and understanding kind of how the democratic process works. The number two answer on what they would be good at is getting stuff done. The number... View Details
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
recent book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, is the first in-depth examination of failed government efforts to support entrepreneurs. So what should government do? Lerner has this advice for View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
force comprising some fifteen citizens, including at least one Levi Strauss employee, from a cross section of the community. The idea is to help educate local citizens about racism, encourage them to build partnerships to help combat it, advocate positive changes in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
the armed forces came at this time. On the policy side, Nixon's Labor Department enforced new requirements for contractors to hire and promote women; conducted compliance reviews of universities; and gave the Equal Opportunity Commission... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
strike. Afterward, from most accounts, much of the momentum behind the protests at HBS dissipated. The Class of1971 settled down to a far more traditional second-year experience, with some notable departures: there was a heightened level of interest in the role of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
citizens to support the country in crisis, usually in wartime. In the present economic calamity, we can help the government, and the government can strengthen American families. Just keep our money, please. The correct View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser to corporations and View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
The capital gains rate is a policy lever, not a social lever. A government should care about the less fortunate, for sure. But a government cannot achieve that by punishing... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
the official government of a fearsome global superpower, the implications and reasons for these attacks are well beyond anything Reilly could have imagined, and point not to random acts of terror, but calculated acts of war. RED Hotel is... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
decision; we have to look at our values and find the right course based on that.” The board of directors and executive team have been chipping away at a list of commitments designed to strengthen governance and build in mechanisms for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
natural and human resources, poverty nonetheless prevails — some 350 million Indians live on less than one dollar a day. “The government of India faces the challenge of leveraging huge natural and human resources to ensure rapid economic... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
and, as he puts it, "get reality on the table." Since 1996, as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and, currently, as a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., Baker has conducted research on and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
and economic priorities. Another factor both business and government leaders struggle with is the media’s tendency to provide the public with oversimplified or just plain inaccurate information about political, economic, or competitive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Presidential Adviser
6, 2006, Q&A with the Chicago Sun–Times, Hubbard, assistant to the President for economic policy and director of the National Economic Council, championed Bush’s message on taxes. The way to spur more economic growth is to keep taxes low,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
deeply committed to making government more responsive and are drawing on insights from their prior careers—Braun as a former state legislator and the founder and CEO of Indiana-based Meyer Distributing, and Harder as a former vice... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persistence in offering SARA’s hard data—and solutions—to craft effective legislation. Langford is a frequent presence at Georgia’s state capitol, working to influence policy addressing the opioid epidemic. “We’re going to be running... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
the scourge of too big to fail. One is to break up the largest financial institutions, possibly with a new and improved Glass-Steagall law. The other is to perfect a bankruptcy process for super-sized financial firms so they can fail safely without the need for View Details