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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and wanted his help. “It was one of those calls you don’t say no to,” says Bernstein, now serving as the bureau’s deputy assistant director of mortgage and home equity markets. “The CFPB is the largest View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Research Brief: The Benefits of Bias
Every year, specially chosen committees help the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) decide how to allocate massive—totaling more than $24 billion in 2014—competitive federal grants for medical research. But the evaluators on the... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Clubs: Capital Improvements
committee stacked with former cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and other Washington notables—would be a much larger affair, one with the goal of raising the profile of the DC business community, often overshadowed by the federal... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
by federal law, in order to receive government reimbursements. “As a provider with limited resources and tremendous pressure to decrease cost, we can only focus on so many initiatives at once,” notes Kevin Donovan, CEO of Mt. Ascutney... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
to observe that at one time he had told his study group that he intended to live in Australia and, as a consultant, travel the world while learning about different business models. Instead, Brown said, “I'm going back to my hometown of Washington, D.C., to work for the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
suffered mightily for about six or nine months and I quit. So working for the federal government, at least that job, was the worst job, wasn't even close. Now it could be because I had been a research assistant here, which was my best... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
am asking whites to make deposits up to $250,000 in Black-owned banks. At that level, it is completely insured by the federal government, so there's no risk. The reason is because Black-owned banks send money to the Black community. What... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
Seegull coauthored a policy paper, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and others, focused on engaging the federal government in impact investing to achieve social and environmental outcomes. "That opened my eyes to the world of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
right to buy into privately held firms was limited to high-net-worth individuals or other businesses. Federal regulators have now opened up a world between the two categories, creating a new asset class in which “non-accredited investors”... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
performance test scores. By June that number had jumped to 53 percent. “In nine months, we can effectively close the gap between poor and average performance on pre-K tests,” says Dias Griffin, “and we can do it for $6,000 per child, which is equivalent to the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
are big differences,” says Pons, who mined what is believed to be one of the most comprehensive data sets of political contributions made through online fundraising platforms such as ActBlue (Democrat) and WinRed (Republican) and reported to the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
from post-secondary education and training to career. We’ll look at the effectiveness of state systems and consider the policy options at both the state and federal levels. We’ll also discuss underemployment among college graduates and... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
A Whole New Game
According to research compiled by the Federal Reserve, cities, not suburbs, are now the leading generators of US economic growth. From 2010 to 2016, urban populations grew faster than those in the suburbs, reversing a nearly 70-year-old... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
with academia; and sharing pre-competitive research, Lechleiter said. He made a plea for federal and state policy support in the form of tax incentives and improvements to the U.S. education system to back up industry action. Conference... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
Ohio, where he had secured multimillion-dollar budgets from the federal government. There were several military veterans as well, but they were mostly ex-Army or ex-Marines who had fought in Vietnam, and they all seemed tough and... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
for America and proposes federal policy priorities that can form the core of such a strategy. Further, it identifies corporate and personal tax reform as promising first steps in the strategy. However, the authors warn that it will be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
for the most part, heard like any other case. If you had a dispute about something like an infringement or a royalty demand, you’d file in a district court. If you lost and wanted to appeal, you’d go to a federal circuit court. And if you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
managing risk, from limited liability law to federal deposit insurance. “If you look across these policies, one thing that becomes quite clear is that anytime you shift a risk around, you have to be concerned about the potential for moral... View Details