Government Initiatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 25

the weakening of democratic governance and the politics of decisions about industrial policy. Publisher's link: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05631-9.html August 2013 Research Policy Digital Dark Matter and the Economic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

analysis program for health care providers. Innovations will be judged on the basis of their impact on cost, quality, or access to health care; evidence of initial success; and the extent to which applicants have created clear... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

benefit the environment as well as a company's bottom line," Rangan adds. Good examples are the early childhood literacy initiative of PNC, a financial services organization based in Pittsburgh, and the 10,000 Women View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

governments take on a smart city project, it's often the private sector that's left to execute the vision—sometimes at the expense of good public policy. Green Businesses Are Incredibly Difficult to Make Profitable. Try It AnywayMaking a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

dramatically. Q: If there is agreement that a broadband explosion is generally a desirable thing, what role should government regulators and policymakers play in encouraging it? A: This is one of the major issues in the book, but there is... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

be its strongest regional ally. Yet because Israel's formal membership might have kept numerous Arab states from joining the coalition, the U.S. government pointedly excluded the Israelis, starting negotiations elsewhere. Careful... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to Italy, Brazil, and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e., View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

must be profitable to be sustainable. Second, the WDC would take the initiative to target projects in countries that have a good chance of success, where the government is hospitable, the local business... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

comprehensive set of policies and regulations in place and the climate for investment is favorable." The flip side of that coin is that in some countries the government exerts such a large influence on the energy sector that it can... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

government in the past: trying to resuscitate ailing industries and nurture new ones. This approach did not actually work. What the government ought to do, instead, is address the systematic weaknesses in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

record health worker attendance and patient adherence to protocol, and they automatically prompt follow-up treatment. We combine data from surveys, independent field visits, and government registers to identify impacts on TB-control... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

its implications for corporate governance and firm performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51919 The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22

MaterialsThe Wen Group John A. Davis and Matthew G. PillarHarvard Business School Case 812-034 Three brothers who own and lead a second-generation family business in Hong Kong encounter problems of nepotism and governance and endure... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses how executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Credit: Steven Zimmerman/Wikipedia Commons Google software engineer James Damore’s ten-page manifesto excoriating his employer for its diversity initiatives incited a major controversy in August about... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

from themselves Heese initially expected to find that small-town newspapers are beholden to local market forces—that they may refuse, for example, to blow the whistle on the town’s biggest employer. Plus, he figured newspapers may not be... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

one might conclude that efforts to influence human decisions through "nudging" might be effective. However, respondents were far from unanimous in drawing this conclusion. Adnan Younis Lodhi initiated the debate by saying... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to the same caste as the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details