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- 19 Apr 2010
- News
Meet Costa Rica's Minister of Planning
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
include: Agriculture, which receives massive government subsidies. Universities, which enjoy tax-exempt status and direct subsidies through government research grants. Health care, which receives a huge tax... 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
- 16 Aug 2024
- News
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
the new competitiveness council created by the White House and would give President Obama an occasion for convening the business community to request specific commitments. Governors and mayors could follow suit. No new government funding... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 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
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
valid, pay-as-you-go basis would avoiding worsening Medicare’s mammoth unfunded liabilities and could even help address them. The Public Option should also avoid government accounting; independent accountants should verify that the Public... View Details
- 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 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
she brought in a former government minister who had guided a similar transition in his South American country. “Hearing directly from someone who had been through it helped convince the president and parliament that they could make the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and paper for designing standard... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Agent of change
Working in law enforcement made Skovran notice inefficiencies in the way the government approached societal problems. "I became interested in finding more effective ways to reduce crime and violence," she says about her decision to pursue... 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Making Democracy Work
A democratically elected government is essential to free-market capitalism—a strong democracy provides the foundation necessary for capitalism to benefit all, rather than only a few. Today, democracy is in decline around the world, and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
people value risk reduction and predictability. They should want to empower governments to take sensible steps toward the establishment of institutions that put a price on the carbon dioxide. Energy production and consumption, which are... View Details
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron's board (which was... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
University. As a junior, he was elected student-body president, a role that included serving on a state government reform commission tasked with understanding how public policy decisions had limited Louisiana’s potential. When he applied... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer The government used to be America’s greatest innovator. Among many things, it developed or helped fund the creation of the Internet, GPS, microchips, and even Cheetos. (True... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer