Federal Government - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) by New York Governor George Pataki. For Whitehead, this may be one of the most challenging assignments in a remarkable career in which he has served as cochairman of Goldman Sachs, deputy secretary of State, chairman of the... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

unconcerned. Engagement on various applications on the Facebook platform is up. Users appear comfortable with the trade they make to give up privileged information in exchange for a range of convenient and free services. Without a push by Facebook’s customers or more... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

issues: taxes (“I believe in lower taxes”), spending (“I believe the federal government is spending too much”), abortion (he’s against it), the Second Amendment (“I’m a lifetime member of the NRA, and my... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Jun 2023
News

The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA),” recalls McGee. They ultimately decided to focus on Apple, because of the company’s emphasis on consumer privacy, and their 2016 case, “Apple: Privacy vs. Safety,” addressed the federal... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Government; Government

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

29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

ownership. A tax subsidy like the mortgage interest deduction, which reduces the amount of money available to the federal government by $100 billion a year, is understandably at risk today because of our... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Real Estate

Fast Answer

U.S. economic data

H.15 - Interest rates for select U.S. government and Federal Reserve series, published every business day. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data - U.S. national data and a variety of... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Tax and Grow

spending that cash, the economy could benefit from a significant stimulus that, unlike stimulus measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government; Government; Government; Government

08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

unlikely issue for professors in a business school to take on, but they say they are lucky that HBS independently funds much of the research conducted by its faculty and doctoral students. That’s important, since in 1996 the US government... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

01 Jun 2011
News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

government guarantees, and (3) privatization backstopped in times of financial crisis by federal government guarantees only for new loans. The third option reflects a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2009
News

Hope for Reform Dims

THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John... View Details

Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government

30 Jun 2010
News

Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business

Professors Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval, and Christopher Malloy discovered to their surprise that increased federal spending causes local companies to lose sales and cut back on research, payroll, and other expenses. Indeed, reports HBS... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Sep 2007
News

Ali Allawi

Governing Council. A member of a prominent Shia family who fled after the revolution of 1958, Allawi was educated in England and the United States, worked for the World Bank, and later became an investment banker. He watched the fall of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Government; Government

04 Dec 2000
What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

one Fred Smith, the young CEO of Federal Express, who had been required under previous regulation to use small, inefficient aircraft to transport freight or else submit to stringent government regulation. It... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

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Article databases: Which to choose? | Baker Library

newspapers, newswires, and transcripts. Legal reports from federal and state courts, federal laws and regulations, and other government information. ProQuest TDM Studio Best... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Setting the Legislative Agenda

shadow financial system. Create a new system for federal and state regulation of mortgages and other consumer credit products. Create executive pay structures that discourage excessive risk taking. Reform the credit rating system. Make... View Details