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- 04 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? A Reflection on the 50th Anniversary of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons
Keywords: by Frank Nagle
- June 2013 (Revised June 2013)
- Teaching Note
Brazil's Enigma: Sustaining Long-Term Growth & Currency Wars
By: Laura Alfaro and Hilary White
Over the past decade, Brazil's future as a leading world economic power appeared certain. An expanding middle class and commodity boom had fueled economic growth, with GDP growth hitting a peak of 7.5% in 2010. However, the high cost of conducting business in Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: Exchange Rate; Inflation; Inflation Targeting; Industrialization; Infrastructure; Currency; Capital Controls; Stimulus; Commodity Prices; Manufacturing Costs; Globalization; Productivity Growth; Economics; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Public Sector; Brazil; South America; Latin America
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
The Power of Civility
Shelby Scarbrough (OPM 47, 2015) is founder of Practical Protocol, a consulting and events management firm, and coauthor of The Power of Civility. In this interview, she reflects on the importance of—and challenges to—civility in... View Details
- August 2003 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Elizabeth Parker (A)
By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Wickham Skinner and David Krackhardt
A new political appointee with years of volunteer experience takes over a highly responsible job in the state government and is met with bureaucratic inertia. Describes a successful strategy to overcome organizational resistance to change. View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence
Casciaro, Tiziana E., Wickham Skinner, and David Krackhardt. "Elizabeth Parker (A)." Harvard Business School Case 404-043, August 2003. (Revised May 2006.)
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 1977
- Working Paper
Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance
By: Jerry R. Green
A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details
Keywords: Social Insurance; Econometric Models; Public Sector; Government Administration; Policy; Human Needs; Social Issues; Risk and Uncertainty
Green, Jerry R. "Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 215, November 1977.
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
recession. The financial crisis opened the door to massive public interventions in the world's economies, in which the government served as venture capitalist. But these efforts focused on the most troubled and poorly View Details
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
stakeholder as much as the private sector is," she told the audience. "Our framework must contain the private and public sectors as well as civil society. No one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
HBS and the Kennedy School of Government have announced the creation of an integrated joint-degree program, the first of its kind. Its mission is to develop outstanding leaders who are skilled in both managing complex organizations and... View Details
- 1985
- Chapter
The Federal Civil Service Retirement System
By: Dutch Leonard
Leonard, Dutch. "The Federal Civil Service Retirement System." In Pensions, Labor and Individual Choice, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
through a day on the job to find out: Mardie Oakes, an HBS Service Leadership Fellow at Boston Community Capital, a community development financial institution, and Paul Sternhell, an entry-level manager at Samsung Electronics. Cookies... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
young firms, given the uncertainties that were a natural part of the entrepreneurial process," Lerner explained. "General Doriot's idea was to create a new kind of organization that established a selection process, supplied funded companies with View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
Web 2.0 opportunities for your firm are endless. Managers can engage with customers via blogs (caution: they take much more time than you think). Victoria’s Secret and thousands of other firms have highly successful exposure on Facebook... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
finding plenty of ways that companies frustrate their customers. These days, health care, airlines, and telecommunications, to name a few, are sectors that can drive consumers up the wall. Are you, valued customer, treated well, or at... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
business." "The statistics are correct," said Raj Kapoor (HBS MBA '96), managing director at Mayfield, a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. "It's an extremely hit-driven business that's becoming more... View Details
- September 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
Spire, the CubeSat Revolution, and the Government as a Space Data Customer
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Mehak Sarang and Brendan L. Rosseau
This case outlines the rise of Spire Global, a young space company using CubeSats to provide weather data and weather prediction services. In addition to tracing the evolution of a space startup from novel idea to publicly-traded company, the case also examines the... View Details
Keywords: Space; Government Contracting; Remote Sensing; Satellites; Business Startups; Public Sector; Cost vs Benefits; Competition; Weather; Forecasting and Prediction
Weinzierl, Matthew, Mehak Sarang, and Brendan L. Rosseau. "Spire, the CubeSat Revolution, and the Government as a Space Data Customer." Harvard Business School Case 722-013, September 2021. (Revised December 2021.)
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
(HSPH) Innovative Problem Solving & Design Thinking in Healthcare (HSPH) Launching Tech Ventures (HBS) Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Learning (HGSE) Managing the Future of Work (HBS) Power and Influence for Positive Impact (HBS/HKS)... View Details
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Andres Alonso Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
added. Neeraj Agrawal, Senior Associate, Battery Ventures, said he's interested in enterprise software and data center automation, but not so keen on customer relations management or wireless. "The shine's off that apple." We're... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna