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- 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
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
witnessed the seemingly intractable achievement gap between white students and students of color. She saw teachers and administrators struggling to provide the support that communities needed beyond the classroom. Liu went on to study public View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
anyone, he shaped the economic policies of Hong Kong for the quarter century after the war and set the stage for a remarkable economic expansion. This book examines the man behind the story and the successful economic View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
high consideration. Spiritual and ethical factors are often viewed as separate “silos,” but these core values pervasively shape, bind, and energize the economic culture. Long-term policy and growth must emanate from—and reflect—the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
prisons, and garbage collection among them — has been attempted, When All Else Fails argues that government has been and will inevitably continue to be the nation's ultimate risk manager and insurer of last resort. Drawing on history and economic theory, Moss... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
been a powerful model that’s been replicated for other development and investment programs,” Bloom explains. “For the MCC, private investment is clearly the ultimate engine of growth and therefore of poverty reduction. We explicitly select countries with institutions... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
spending too much; and the Reagan and Bush administrations’ tax policies and deregulatory environment for encouraging risk-taking. Conard makes the contrarian case for how the economy really works, what went wrong over the past decade,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
students, but also those from Harvard’s medical school, engineering school, and public policy and health school—understand how to disseminate their health care innovation ideas. If they are very serious about it, the second course, a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
best people you can find and then let them do their job." CURRENT READING Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, by Christopher T. Cross As head of Hazleton, which he turned into the largest independent contract laboratory in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
pulling the financial system back from the brink. This marked a sharp contrast to the disastrous “liquidationist” policies of the early 1930s, when public officials (particularly at the Federal Reserve) were so afraid of moral hazard that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
policy and urban redevelopment issues. When his boss moved on to another post, Jones filled the vacancy on the council and was subsequently elected to a four-year term. As a councilor, Jones enjoyed "getting streets paved, libraries... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
needed funding will be used to improve facilities. On the national level, I cofounded TechNet, a policy network to improve public education, and the New Schools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy fund for education entrepreneurs.... 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 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
targets set in the Philippine Development Plan. Why does Manila Water need a climate change policy? Studies show that the water supply sector is one of the most directly affected by climate change. Our policy covers our commitment to (1)... 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 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
—Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein (MBA/JD 2002, DBA 2013) I will give the industry some credit and say that it has come around in the last couple of years. I launched RelayRides in the fall of my first semester at HBS, and it took me a year and a half to find an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
officials to take steps to enhance competitiveness. “While government policy sets the platform, companies have an essential role in improving the business environment in US communities,” says Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University... View Details