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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
expenditures in the United States have ballooned to an estimated 17 percent of GDP, well above that of other countries — yet those extra dollars don’t result in better care. According to a 2010 Health- Grades report, patient safety incidents cost the View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
federal government to do more here, but we’re a ways off from that happening. DEBORA SPAR MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Harvard Business School Online; also former president of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
the hardships of World War II, with its shortages, rationing, bombardments, and Nazi occupation. After the war ended, at the age of 17, he went to Switzerland, where he obtained his federal high school diploma and enrolled at the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
department and we agree to move them." In an arrangement with Federal Express, the modems are shipped to a warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee, and inspected. FairMarket then posts a description of the merchandise online for the next... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
in Utah to convert Mormons to traditional Christian belief. After the Mormons acquiesced to federal laws against polygamy and federal pressure to secularize Utah’s governance, the religious conflict over... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
purposes. Soon after Levy joined the board of Hypres in 2010, however, his intuition told him that the most fruitful application of its technology lay in computation. After succeeding Johnson as board chairman in 2012, Levy helped steer the company into the View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
a USDA-funded summer feeding site component that offers free meals to local children. (Nearly 22 percent of Harlan County residents face food insecurity according to the nonprofit Feeding America, but many do not qualify for federal... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
education issues, traveling to nineteen states, visiting more than one hundred schools, and speaking with federal and state officials, union representatives, and education think tanks. “I talked to anybody and everybody,” Nielsen recalls.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
of the total federal budget. By 1975, it was less than 1 percent. “The original programs were finished, the shuttle hadn’t begun yet, and we weren’t sending astronauts into space,” he says. Thompson began thinking about a new kind of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, including the Justice Department, Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He frequently comments in the news media on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
constitution, restricting tribal citizenship to those listed in the "Cherokee by Blood" section of the Dawes Rolls. That set off a series of lawsuits, with a federal court ruling in favor of the Freedmen in 2017, a decision reaffirmed in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
rights? When will the division of policy authority across different government agents (e.g., federal and subnational governments, or politicians and bureaucrats) enable better policy decisions? And what are the consequences of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
considering the source, by conferring on him the nickname “The Politician.” In recognition of his ability to handle touchy problems smoothly and effectively, FDR also offered him a number of federal appointments — including cabinet... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
schools: teachers, parents, students, curricula, state and federal mandates, operations, and finance. "There's a huge need for great management talent to partner with talented education leaders," Allen says. "These are operationally and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
for six years. In addition, he chaired Harvard's International Senior Managers Program in Vevey, Switzerland. Over the years, Hayes has consulted for a number of corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies, including the Justice Department, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
investment. But even cash disgorged through dividends, share repurchases, or mergers would have a potentially stimulative effect compared with corporations banking the funds. It is tempting to pin hopes of an economic recovery on a centralized effort or another... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
radical transformations, including a power shift from its headquarters in London to an international secretariat in Johannesburg; a new federated governance structure that increases the influence of units in Africa and Asia; and... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
again. April: When we think about these type of big structural social changes, we're often thinking about federal government action. Do you think there's also a place for the business community to lead this type of change? Sheryl: Oh,... View Details