Government Spending - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2008
News

“A National System of Income Supplementation”

Richard America’s analysis of the crippling legacy of racial discrimination in the United States was underscored by a study released last summer. In the wake of a spate of riots in urban America in the 1960s, a federal government... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

05 Jan 2011
Op-Ed

Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress

In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again government funding of human embryonic stem-cell research, it is time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding environment. And to do that,... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

first time a wide range of top industry CEOs, government leaders, and customers of transportation services, was designed to help provide that purpose by assessing the state of the industry, identifying innovations both in technology and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

01 Mar 2019
News

The HBS Fund

Most alumni gifts go to the HBS Fund, which provides flexible resources the School can spend immediately on both core priorities and new initiatives. Your gifts support the people and programs that have a tremendous impact on business... View Details

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

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “The solution doesn't necessarily come from the federal government or from Wal-Mart. The solution comes from lots of us deciding that we are going to do what it takes to solve... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Letters to the Editor

beyond this letter’s scope to counter Tobias’s many fallacious arguments about the national debt, in which he ascribes no responsibility to the congressional Democrats who originated most of the spending over the past half-century. If... View Details

Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

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

2021
Government Testimony

How Health Care Consolidation Is Contributing to Higher Prices and Spending, and Reforms That Could Bolster Antitrust Enforcement and Preserve and Promote Competition in Health Care Markets

By: Leemore S. Dafny

Reforms to antitrust law and enforcement can help to address rising healthcare prices and spending. View Details

Keywords: Antitrust Law; Health Care and Treatment; Consolidation; Price; Spending; Cost Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; United States

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15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of new technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity of government... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

01 Mar 2015
News

Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

market “slack” and the absence of any significant increase in wage pressures, suggesting that inflation will remain well contained for the near term. The Fed spends a good deal of time watching inflation expectations data, as those seem... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Mar 2010
News

Sole Mates

government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

08 Dec 2017
News

Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits

fundraising. And the super PAC With Honor, cofounded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009), was formed in November to support veterans running for office. It plans to spend around $30 million campaigning for 25 to 35 congressional candidates in 2018.... View Details

Keywords: politics

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

the Harvard Kennedy School, where she is the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation. Frances Frei: Ask us for a better version of ourselves It’s hard to overstate the positive business impact of government that embraces... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Lido (Lee) A. Iacocca

Iacocca, former president of Ford Motor Company, took over Chrysler when it was leaning towards bankruptcy. He asked Congress for a loan, arguing that if Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, the government would have to View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

growing number of elections, and that is a cause for concern.” Fewer voters means less people having a stake in what government does, eroding trust of the governed—particularly by younger, poorer, and less educated citizens, who tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

Article

An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy

By: N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl

This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in the short-run and flexible in the long-run. Policy is evaluated by... View Details

Keywords: Fiscal Policy; Monetary Policy; Economic Models; Aggregate Demand; Demand and Consumers; Money; Mathematical Methods; Taxation; Spending; Policy; Welfare; Household; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation