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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
In the first days of military action in Iraq, with Americans unsure of what lay ahead, one commanding, symbolic image in this media–intensive war held sway: a U.S. Marine, ripping down a huge poster of Saddam Hussein in a town in southern Iraq. Those who know him... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
With executive compensation soaring to unprecedented levels in recent years, the prickly issue of CEO pay has received increasing media and government attention. Now, with the perfect storm of a failing economy, View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
TUMULTY: “Rather than challenge voters, politicians look for the lowest common denominator.” In the following article, the first in a series of occasional opinion pieces by HBS alumni who are professional writers, Time magazine’s national political correspondent Karen... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
UN President Speaks at HBS
The keynote speaker for last October’s International Week at HBS, UN General Assembly president Srgjan Kerim, called on the future leaders in his audience to use capital not only to realize profits but also in ways that promote and advance economic growth, social... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 20 May 2015
- News
City Treasurer Kurt Summers on How to Save Chicago From Bankruptcy
Keywords: Government
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Nikki Skovran
which she helped develop an anti-gang task force, took Nikki in yet another new direction. “I noticed a lot of inefficiencies in the way the government approached things,” she says. “I became interested in finding more effective ways to... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
the exchanges. However, practically speaking, it is unlikely that many of them will be able to afford those plans without the federal government subsidies they received through the exchanges. Around 85 percent of consumers buying... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
FOR MORE INFORMATION Legislating Stock Prices Psst looking for a hot stock tip? Forget the Wall Street Journal. Try the Congressional Record. HBS professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, with Dartmouth's Karl Diether, analyzed the complete legislative record of... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
the form of a stock buyback.) The US government and other borrowers are beneficiaries of this phenomenon, at least for the moment. My favorite barber, an immigrant from Greece with a love for his adopted country that more than matches his... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Pentagon Sends an Engineer and a Navy SEAL to Woo Silicon Valley
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that explains everything, right?” The... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Summing Up The predominance of opinions expressed a concern about what happened in Microsoft's dispute with the Government and laid the blame at the feet of both the company's leadership and of board members who either supported the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett