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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
its skills and capabilities. Dan Levy, a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School—who taught many of the IDinsight founders in his courses about quantitative methods, policy analysis,... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
For Mendu, that meant the chance to work with Detroit’s former Chief Policy Officer Kim Rustem on a number of initiatives including the development and launch of the city’s Mental Health Co-Response Partnership, as well as with Andrea... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher by Ann Lee (MBA 1995) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in human rights, Lee details the policies and practices—in areas ranging from education and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
come with moving. Do we need comprehensive reform to address issues related to land values? —Dick Carlson (MBA 1961) OAKES: It’s essential. “Exclusionary” zoning policies result in segregated communities (both economically and racially).... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Challenge Indeed, the Bank's stated mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investments in people. To those ends, it provides loans, technical assistance, and policy guidance for its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
Role Fred Lazarus delivered the following remarks to the policy board of Americans for the Arts in Washington, D.C., in March 1998. The federal government has provided support for the arts in this country in many ways over the past two... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
whole technology landscape is going, how related firms are progressing, and how its work fits into that context.” He also cites public policy issues and government involvement; intellectual property questions; longer time horizons; and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
Syrian refugee crisis in 2016 from another stop on the migration stream: in Europe, where some of the Syrian refugees who had fled to Turkey had settled. The crisis had strained the European Union’s open-border policies and fueled the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
for the ticket, explaining to his friend: "This man has a business to run, and you are stealing from him." Similarly, during a pro-Reaganomics discussion in his BGIE class, Donelson spoke about the pain his community experienced as a result, he believes, of President... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
structure is a textbook duopoly, they add, surrounded by a “political industrial complex” of special interests, donors, and lobbyists, resulting in competition that fails to deliver what citizens should expect: practical and effective View Details
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
“playbook” highlighting ways in which business partnerships can help educators lay the policy foundations for innovation, expand programs that boost student outcomes, and reinvigorate the entire education ecosystem to strengthen public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard, whose ideas have been applied to improve the economic performance of companies, cities, states, regions, and entire nations. “This goes beyond the traditional writing of articles and books, and influences View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a nonprofit group of businesspeople who believe that sound environmental policy and economic progress are not mutually exclusive. With about four hundred members nationwide, E2 works directly with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
version of the School's Business Policy course. Named a full professor in 1958 and the first George F. Baker, Jr., Professor of Business Administration in 1963, Christensen began the second major phase of his career in 1968, when Dean... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
to hearing his executive participants vow to review cyber security safeguards and procedures once they return to their companies. As Austin tells his students, only senior management has the authority necessary to implement the fundamental, overarching View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
the more general reader interested in national parks. The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money by Deborah Dove Gordon (MBA 1999) Praeger Health care consumer policy expert Deborah Gordon offers a guided... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- News
Launch Signals
the fastest-growing DTC brand with a 313.7 percent increase in online traffic quarter-over-quarter. Both Fitzgerald and de Zárraga see Flare as a stopgap measure until cultural and policy changes shift the prevailing environment around... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
North Reading’s Kiva Systems, founded by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996). Regarding the headquarters decision, Russ Wilcox (MBA 1995), who cofounded E Ink–which would become a key supplier for the Amazon Kindle—says the Bezos might be employing a tactic he often used with... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
always sets the accurate worth of a company—that so-called misvaluation is merely an illusion perceived by managers. But to him that point is an academic one. “Ultimately,” he says, “company managers are making these [cash policy] decisions, not finance scholars.”... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs