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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Top-Flight Tory
His grandfather was a Communist, and he was born to a single mother living in council housing, but David Davis (AMP 96, 1985) has grown up to become a leading figure in Britain’s Conservative Party. His humble origins may give him broad national appeal to go along with... View Details
- 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 spending billions of dollars... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
solely up to management to ensure a company retains its competitive edge, a proactive board can help to provide the guidance needed for the future. Related Reading: Managing for the Longterm The Real Duty of the Board of Directors View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
separating these two roles is vital for maintaining balance in the boardroom. Companies that fuse the roles of CEO and chairman collapse the governance triangle, undermining the system of checks and balances that is essential to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
300 miles of coastline scoured nearly clean of villages and farms, the province became the focal point for a massive international relief effort. Typical of crisis response efforts, relief agencies joined with the Indonesian government to... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- News
From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing
prisons, and nuclear facilities. The fences have mesh openings that are too small to allow people to get a grip with their fingers or to allow a cutter to work effectively. Knott sees the possibility of a big order from the US government... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
alumni either currently serving in or running for office: National/State Government Seth Moulton (MBA 2011; Congress in Massachusetts, reelected 2018) Joshua Harder (MBA 2014; running for Congress in California) Jared Henderson (MBA 2007;... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
Partners. “Government can help smaller innovators by pushing utilities to adopt new technologies,” he added. But Prend favors government carrots, not sticks. The other panelists — Jim Matheson (MBA ’01), general partner at Flagship... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
approaches to poverty alleviation. Leading academics and corporate, nonprofit, and public-sector managers discuss how businesses, NGOs, and government organizations can use business solutions to improve the lot of the world’s poorest 3... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Pledge of Allegiance
Norquist: Backstage, an outsized role. As the political season heats up, few nonpoliticians wield as much ideological impact on the process as Grover Norquist (MBA 1981). For two decades, Norquist’s organization, Americans for Tax Reform, has persuaded Republican... View Details
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
foreign firms. In the United States, government officials have attempted to shift food-safety efforts to prevention with the passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act in 2011. One result: Produce is now subject to preventative... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Blake Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Related links Learn how alumni apply military experience to leadership in nonprofits, industry, education, and more. Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009), PepsiCo Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), Executives Without Borders... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real estate while providing its longtime... View Details