United States Treasury - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2009
News

Faculty Books

Gulati states that managers have figured out what consumers want and what their company should offer but are only now appreciating the huge institutional barriers that prevent them from delivering. He offers a practical process by which... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

victims and their families. Given the reputation of the United States as a bastion of laissez faire, many foreign observers were astounded at the nature and magnitude of the federal response to September... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

of information among doctors, hospitals, patients, and providers; standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the uninsured; reform of View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

Children in the United States today are at risk to live shorter lives than their parents. This sobering assessment is one reason big box retailer Target is investing $40 million this year to improve the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

06 Apr 2016
What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

Summing Up--Is Product Security A Potential Distraction for Apple’s Leadership? The saga of Apple’s stand-off with the United States government over the Company’s refusal to assist the FBI in hacking its own... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

prepare for what was coming. My view is that you need at least 100 years of data to have a sense of the potential risks that globalization runs. Do business schools teach enough financial history? My impression of the major business schools in the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

those beliefs may or may not foster development." Capitalism, Di Tella says, is not popular in most parts of the world—and in Latin America, the backlash against free markets has reached epidemic proportions. "Why is capitalism so unattractive outside of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

25 Mar 2018
News

Modernizing Infrastructure Management

there's been 45 major fire hydrant recalls the United States. Only half of those have actually been addressed and fixed. “The reason why the other half haven't been fixed is because cities don't know where their fire hydrants are. Our... View Details

02 Jan 2018
News

Reconsidering Retirement

ins-and-outs of retirement savings, creating more than 70 videos on the basics of investing, and lobbying for regulatory changes that would benefit consumers. Puritz testified before the United States Senate... View Details

Keywords: April White; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Profile

Gordon Ross

protagonist.” Gordon credits HBS’ international office for making the transition overseas easy. “They have been superb at helping with the Visa process,” he says. “They hold your hand, answering all your questions, sending you prompts and reminders by email.” Once... View Details

Profile

Cristiana Torres

"It's clear that I want a family and I want to be in business. So which becomes a priority first? For me, I want to stay in the United States for two to three years to get the raw materials I need to... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Wind turbine manufacture was clustered in Denmark... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

soon change rapidly. “When I decided to take on that role, the world looked very different than it would later that spring,” says Diagne. “I had no idea that it would turn into a pandemic-response and economic-recovery role.” He took the last flight from the View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

Portrait Project

Robyn Tsukayama

As a child, nature was my playground and her creatures were my playmates. Watching my new friends in action just captivated me: how ants unite to build a mound; the multiple legs of a caterpillar moving in sync to climb a branch; an... View Details

Portrait Project

Ali Hashmi

concealing certain truths. Despite the many coincidences that separate us, a simple truth unites us: Our time in this world is limited, and that which is limited is precious. As for me, I want to live a life that does not merely... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Whitehead Urges MBAs to Become Lifelong Leaders

includes the following positions held: cochairman (and 38-year veteran) of Goldman Sachs; deputy secretary of state in the Reagan administration; and board president of many prominent nonprofit organizations. Founder of the Committee to... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

The Levitt Brand

A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2003
News

Inside MBA Admissions

hosted 28 events in fifteen cities in the United States, with several aimed specifically at women and minorities. The office also hosted events at more than thirty colleges to connect with the “early career candidate pool” in an effort to... View Details