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- 22 Nov 2015
- News
Start-Up Leaders Embrace Lobbying as Part of the Job
A recent story in the New York Times that details entrepreneurs’ growing interest in shaping policy highlights the lobbying efforts of Hello Alfred, a personal butler service founded by Jessica Beck (MBA 2015) and Marcela Sapone (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to brashly demand kickbacks on the commissions iTrust earns from the vendors whose products we sell,” says Varma. iTrust dealt with this problem head on by posting its kickbacks policy on its Web site. It reads in part: Under no... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
around common objectives." The Met's admissions policy is unusual: The museum, as Deborah Winshel puts it, "relies on the good grace of the visitor" for admissions revenue, with a suggested donation of $10 for adults. "We are a tremendous... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
generating new product ideas. Sometimes a community of users will form independently of the company. That can be tricky, because they will not want to be controlled, and they will want to criticize your product. The best policy is... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
tens of thousands, potentially, were criminals. And that's just become part and parcel of everything else that happens subsequent to that. I mean, the race riots in Miami, the rise of crack on the east coast. I mean, I really am amazed looking back at this to what... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
less likely to challenge our position as quickly as Russia or China. The book advocates an overhaul of American foreign policy based on a philosophy of “strategic independence.” What are the key features of strategic independence? We are... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
"contrary to popular wisdom, government involvement with private-sector risks is nothing new." Moss noted that public-risk management goes back to the earliest days of the Republic and cited policies such as limited liability, federal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
company were against it. Outside the company were cynical. So you had to fight through all that stuff. And so any initiative like that requires, you know, private innovation and public, let's say public policy support, right? And so we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
dedicated to churning out homegrown entrepreneurial techies, ought to turbocharge the local startup scene. According to Josh Lerner, government also plays an important role in fostering healthy entrepreneurial ecosystems by doing things like promulgating favorable tax... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
said with music.” Galatoire’s is a New Orleans institution—the kind of restaurant where a waiter may have served the same family for generations. The local desire to eat and be seen at Galatoire’s is so strong that its no-reservations View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
experiences over things. That appeal is broad-based.” Don’t break out the bubbly when a change in business policy results in an increase in your prestige. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and her colleague discovered that “unearned... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
As a trade negotiator, economic official, and scholar, Naoko Munakata (MBA 1990) has been immersed in Japan’s economic revitalization effort for the last 25 years. In 2013, as director-general for trade policy in Japan, she helped to pave... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Harvard Gazette How invasion may hit U.S., global economies [Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard] Kenneth Rogoff sees possible fallout in stock, energy markets, worsening of inflation, increase... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the 20th century, this widespread fair trade movement borrowed from progressive law and economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
School of Public Health as a way to understand the policies and skills required to address the systemic challenges that many developing countries face. She then moved to Johannesburg to assist with efforts by South Africa’s First National... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
want to do. That model is the basis for many use cases. Is my policy in compliance? What’s the pathway from here to there? Is it protected, is it encrypted, whatever it is? And then the measurement. This is something we innovated a couple... View Details
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
Sometimes good politics and good policy just don’t mix. Take the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama recently signed, for example. A bill that purports to create jobs is good politics just before a midterm election. But HBS... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
policies are going to make a big difference in this country. Making sure that there's enough money for all older adults to support healthy aging going forward. And a lot of other countries have done better in finding housing alternatives.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details