Government Spending - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would flood back to employers who... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 May 2013
Blog Post

Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise

spending virtually all of undergrad involved in the public sector, I decided to try something totally different after my graduation in 2011. So, I moved to New York City and began working in Foreign Exchange Sales at Credit Suisse. The... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

cycle could not continue. That erosion spread to nonprime consumer credit and commercial mortgages. Those factors helped spark a global financial crisis. Credit markets were seizing up. The US government was View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

technology-driven efforts to sway their votes, and from as far away as Russia, according to US government claims. Social media in general and Facebook specifically were the primary weapons of choice. It worked so well that View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

Profile

Arvind Chandrababu

What led you to the HBS MBA program? When I was an undergraduate at the University of Texas, Austin, studying electrical engineering, I realized that as much as I enjoyed coding, I didn’t want to spend eight hours out of every day in... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

as head of the provincial conservation office—“the fish and wildlife police, basically,” he says. He was in his early 50s and in his 15th year of government work. His career was in stasis, and by 2002, he didn’t necessarily care if it... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

facilities each year, an increasing number of which are on foreign soil. "Without the FDA, each of us would individually spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain," says Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

December 2017
Response

Reply: Do Powerful Politicians Really Cause Corporate Downsizing?

By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy

While we commend the initiative of Snyder and Welch (2017), we lay out in this short reply why we remain highly confident in our results and our interpretation thereof. We welcome authors to continue to explore the data for themselves and look forward to the new... View Details

Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence

Citation

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Mar 2012
Article

Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

there's no change in direction. The authors examine how fiscal policy relates to the three drivers of productivity: improving human capital, increasing physical capital (equipment or software, for example), and using these forms of capital more efficiently. View Details

03 Apr 2017
What Do You Think?

How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

government involvement was an issue. Regardless of the vehicle for achieving it, there was little optimism that we would be seeing a significant incremental effort soon. As I read your responses, a question crossed my mind: In light of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

parties operating either through the government or an insurance company that's paying. We would need a code. A code comes from the AMA [American Medical Association]. Will the AMA give us a code? Well, not easily, because the doctors are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

the end, that’s what an effective government does: It provides services to citizens and gives them the basics to do better. Today’s system creates fewer and fewer of those opportunities to move up,” says Ballou-Aares, who was selected as... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

Talk of the recent financial crisis often falls into a simplistic narrative of villainous banks, marketing toxic financial products to innocent customers who did not understand their risks. Among the storied victims are municipal View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

still more government debt would be imprudent. Should Japan lose its AA- sovereign debt rating, confidence in the country's economy and government could be sent into a debilitating tailspin. A safer, even if... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Feb 2002
News

Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story

so close to death was a wake-up call," she says. "It made me reevaluate how I wanted to spend the rest of my life." Upon reflection, she decided to leave the corporate world and take time off to write, with the plan of eventually starting... View Details

Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

much more than just an income,” says Hussam, who teaches the course Business, Government and the International Economy to MBA students. “It gives you a sense of identity, of purpose, of a larger goal. It gives you an opportunity to build... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

02 Sep 2021
News

Back to School

students. It’s huge. At the federal level, our value add is providing resources like the American Rescue Plan, as well as the guidance and partnership for spending those dollars. We accumulate and share best practices. We try to partner... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Web

Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

We look at the idea of government as a platform and ways to leverage their network effects for growth. We tackle these topics mostly through case discussion, and we spend time with many guests.... View Details

Profile

Dan Vallone

it’s a great fit with my goals: to widen equality and close achievement gaps. That’s how I want to spend my time. How do you think HBS has prepared you for your new role? In classes, the case method motivates you to develop and refine... View Details