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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
eyebrows with his provocative rhetoric. A master of hyperbole, he once declared that he wanted to “reduce government to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” Rhetorical flourishes aside, his stock in... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
founder of the Tobin Project, an independent, interdisciplinary initiative that uses academic research to tackle massive real-world problems like economic inequality, national security, and government regulation. “We’ve found that working... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
reporters in the media room inside BK Arena. Wearing a black dashiki and black-framed glasses, he sat next to the president of the Rwanda Basketball Federation and the country’s Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Sports, who had... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Web
HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
percent of total revenue. Three factors govern the change in the endowment distribution: a specified rate increase set by the University, which in fiscal 2023 was 4.5 percent; new gifts to the endowment, which comprises more than 1,000... View Details
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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
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Kanwaljit Bakshi
It is often said that two years at HBS prepares its graduates to lead a wide range of organizations and endeavors and to find solutions to a host of business and social challenges. Still, Kanwaljit Bakshi (MBA/JD 1999), known to friends and colleagues as Kayla Brochu,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Rossotti Courtesy HBS Press When Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64) was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, it was the most feared and loathed of all federal government agencies.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly endorse this notion, promising to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
Not all financial reform proposals under consideration in Washington sprang from federal agencies and congressional committees. One emerged from HBS. Last spring, students in Professor Rakesh Khurana’s elective corporate View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
eleven responses and landed three interviews. “It was,” she says, “a searing experience because I felt it was totally directed at women.” Two job offers came from government — OMB and Defense — but Cohen opted for a private-sector... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
troubled financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs whose ex-CEO was the then Treasury Secretary. The U.S. government moves to dismiss the case arguing that it has wide discretion in times of crisis, but a View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
David Moss was asked to consider "what role the federal government should play, if any, in indemnifying terrorism-related risks." Moss, whose new book, When All Else Fails: View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
Nicolas P. Retsinas is Senior Lecturer in Real Estate, Harvard Business School and former Federal Housing Commissioner. Rob Couch is Counsel, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and former President of GNMA. Over six years ago, when the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
ask for IOUs in the form of savings bonds instead. In 2007, the federal government distributed tax refunds exceeding $248 billion to more than 114 million filers. Businesses have long capitalized on these... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
guarantees” that compel the government to bail out large financial institutions. Moss’s own reform ideas have helped frame the ongoing Washington debate and make a clear, persuasive argument for more federal... View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
fill out the remaining two years of former mayor Bill Courtright’s term. (Courtright, who faces federal corruption charges of bribery and extortion, resigned in July.) Cognetti moved to Scranton in 2016 following stints at Goldman Sachs... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
About half of US states—mostly run by Republican governors—cut off extended unemployment benefits months before the federal government was planning to end them on Labor Day last year, convinced workers would... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
the OCC and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would make such partnerships expensive and complicated to implement. Enabling these partnerships to flourish requires clear, consistent, and non-overlapping rules from the multiple... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
who have stayed in Boston–in government and private institutions—who still keep our relationship to the City government and public agendas in some way,” says Stephen Chan (MBA 2009), Chief of Staff for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
deeply committed to making government more responsive and are drawing on insights from their prior careers—Braun as a former state legislator and the founder and CEO of Indiana-based Meyer Distributing, and Harder as a former vice... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg