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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
economically and socially. It could be a critical tool for pulling a community together and provide an incentive for it to rebuild itself. It also avoided the appearance of favoritism. If the government was... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
Project Antares with colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health. The effort aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, such as delivering medicines at very low... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
cities” field. “I wanted to explore the opportunities and challenges of selling to government in a company that is moving from selling hardware in big chunks to selling software as a service,” says Weiss, the MBA Class of 1961 Senior... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
should also reduce the incentive and possibility to commit tax evasion. Overall, taxes do have a real impact on the business environment, and in most cases business is in favor of the simple and often low flat tax. Laura Alfaro:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
occurrence of problems such as overfishing.) Organizationally, Bazerman asserts that the U.S. government is hampered by bureaucratic fiefdoms with too little regulatory flexibility and a lack of collaboration across units and agencies.... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact. As a historian, I don’t see huge differences among political... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
The CHIPS Program Office
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sebastian Negron-Reichard
In February 2023, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo weighed signing off on a Notice of Funding Opportunity (“NOFO”) with at least one unconventional provision: a pre-application (“pre-app”) to the actual application for parts of $39 billion in direct semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Motivation and Incentives; Semiconductor Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sebastian Negron-Reichard. "The CHIPS Program Office." Harvard Business School Case 824-094, March 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
to return to their countries of origin....” Ben commented that “We have a need for skilled and unskilled labor here (in the U.S.) and we value inclusion and integration... (But) I think our government shouldn’t copy any other country’s... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jan 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and limited incentives for risk taking.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
company, and they make deals that guarantee the executive will come aboard. This means not only high pay, including incentives for performance, but also guaranteed “good-bye” payments if things do not work out. These are one of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
expected when you’re counting on the sun to shine or the wind to blow. Renewables account for 35 percent of global energy use. If we’re going to see that figure increase, governments around the world can play a major role in building the... View Details
- April 2025
- Case
The CHIPS Program Office (Abridged)
By: Mitch Weiss and Sebastian Negron-Reichard
In February 2023, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo weighed signing off on a Notice of Funding Opportunity (“NOFO”) with at least one unconventional provision: a pre-application (“pre-app”) to the actual application for parts of $39 billion in direct semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Motivation and Incentives; Semiconductor Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
Weiss, Mitch, and Sebastian Negron-Reichard. "The CHIPS Program Office (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 825-192, April 2025.
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
harm entrepreneurial incentives are often the same people who claim that current disclosure is adequate for communicating the economics of stock option grants. The two positions are clearly contradictory. If current disclosure is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
precisely what Enron lacked in its governance practices: Sustained attention to the qualitative objectives and ethical standards of the organization; Balanced incentives that reward and penalize results... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
options to assist people with substance use issues. Then he learned that there were better treatments available—a category of interventions known as contingency management, which offer motivational incentives for staying sober. “But no... View Details
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Curriculum | MBA
internship in the second summer. A typical candidate will follow the sample schedule outlined below. MBA/MPP Year 1 Harvard Kennedy School Fall Term Resources, Incentives and Choices I: Markets and Market Failures Quantitative Analysis... View Details
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
executives to do in light of the perception by many in the public that the money was being paid out of funds provided by a Government bail-out. DeSantis' action sparked a debate regarding pay for performance in general, and retention... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett