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2022
Working Paper

The Limits of Decentralized Administrative Data Collection: Experimental Evidence from Colombia

By: Natalia Garbiras-Diaz and Tara Slough

States collect vast amounts of data for use in policymaking and public administration. To do so, central governments frequently solicit data from decentralized bureaucrats. Because central governments use these data in policymaking, decentralized bureaucrats may face... View Details

Keywords: Decentralization; Policy-making; Policy/economics; Policy Evaluation; Governance; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Policy; Public Opinion; Analytics and Data Science; Latin America; South America; Colombia

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08 May 2020
Research & Ideas

We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years

among the least thoughtful among each month’s responses. To the extent possible, I have tried to maintain a focus on management and business-related topics, avoiding topics further afield. Political bias is out; it tends to detract from... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

wider political implications that concern me most. Brexit will put a real border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, for example, and that will pose a threat to reverse the (finally) peaceful relationship between the two... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

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Asian-Affinity Business Association | MBA

Asian-Affinity Business Association The Asian-American Business Association (AABA) provides a community for the promotion, understanding, and cross-cultural exchange of Asian and Asian-American business, social, academic, cultural, and View Details

27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

political stability. How Can My Foreign Assests And Resources Be Protected? Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments After a string of forced nationalizations of private enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s, the pendulum swung back... View Details

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise

Hampshire, but attended undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At Penn, I double-majored in Urban Studies and Political Science, and spent much of my non-academic time working for an organization that starts debate... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

lyrics of most U2 songs. "It was like a huge baptism," she says, referring to the Christian ethos of some of the music, alongside the political and social messages of songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (violence in Northern Ireland),... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

September 2003
Case

Nelson Mandela, Turnaround Leader

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Euvin Naidoo

Nelson Mandela was the first democratically elected president of South Africa. He had to shift the culture of a country after the end of the apartheid regime, which enforced separation of the races and stifled freedom of the press. He established more open dialogue,... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Government and Politics; Governance; Policy; Political Elections; Culture; Communication Intention and Meaning; Relationships; Leadership Style; Welfare; South Africa

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Katherine B. Coffman | Working Knowledge

Management Science , the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics , and Social Choice and Welfare . She is an associate editor of Management Science and the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics . Professor... View Details

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Curriculum | MBA

Politics and Ethics in Unstable Times One HKS Elective Course Joint Degree Program Seminar taught by HBS faculty Summer Policy-related or international development-related summer internship (recommended) Year 2 Harvard Business School... View Details

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

financial one. Institutional change expert Julie Battilana discusses what it will take to create this "transformation of capitalism." Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To HelpHow could a country that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

01 Dec 2017
News

The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability

becoming increasingly aware that the viability of your business depends on dealing with climate change issues. But in the United States it can be politically risky for a CEO of a major company to take a public position on climate change... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

opposing spiritual identities and ethical codes. Ethics and spirit are all too often overlooked and underestimated in our digital-driven, metrics-defined, “quant” world—yet they are at the heart of it all. When regimes turn to being more totalitarian on the View Details

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Oakland, California 1993 Earns BA, Political Economy, UC Berkeley 1993 Joins McKinsey, Business Analyst 1998 Earns MBA/MPA 1998 Joins Consolidation Capital Corp., VP... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2018
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Trade Off

at how much of that has gone to the new middle class in Asia, India, and China, and not to the working middle class in the already developed world—that’s where you see the revolt. Given the importance of stability to the project of globalization, we may need to... View Details

01 Nov 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Forecasting Airport Transfer Passenger Flow Using Real-Time Data and Machine Learning

Keywords: by Xiaojia Guo, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, and Bert De Reyck; Air Transportation; Travel

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

on schemas, procedural justice, emotion expression, and prosocial behavior. Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China Author:Meg Rithmire Publication:China... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 1983 (Revised March 1999)
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The United States Financial Crisis of 1931

The behavior of the Federal Reserve System during the early years of the Great Depression has been a topic of considerable controversy. The Fed, it has been argued, pursued a contracting policy, thereby helping to turn what might have been only a brief recession into... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Financial Crisis; United States

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2021
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The Incidence of the Corporate Income Tax Is Irrelevant for Its (Benefit-Based) Justification

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

Robust support for corporate income taxation is a puzzle for standard tax theory because the tax’s incidence is uncertain and unreliable. We propose a resolution: if the corporate tax is seen as a benefit-based tax, its normative appeal depends on the correspondence... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Income Tax; Benefit-based Taxation; Business Ventures; Taxation

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