Political Issues - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

[see sidebar] further reflects the wide range of issues covered by our faculty. What can we learn from this region? The Asia Pacific, where 2,000 languages are spoken, is home to 60 percent of the world's population. The region's diverse... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Promoting a Deeper Understanding

Sherri and Jed (MBA 1975) Bullard One of HBS’s greatest strengths, says Jed Bullard (MBA 1975), is that it trains students to appreciate different perspectives, in particular, how people brought up in different countries, cultures, and View Details

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

underlying issues are just as political and economic as they've always been. It's just a little bit more of a charged atmosphere than before. It's all seen in terms of where you sit on the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

ability to enforce the terms of foreign loans often led to pitched political battles of will with the implicit threat of war as the only recourse for creditors. Between the end of World War II and the 1970's there was little foreign... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

What do Chinese coal plants and the American legislative branch have in common? They are both major adversaries in the fight against climate change, according to former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón. "The most serious problem is in the United States... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market

have," said Mark Cleverley, a senior solutions executive at IBM. "The CIA can talk to the INS," agreed Mark Hogan, vice president and general manager at BEA Government Systems, "but there are policy issues that affect... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government. And as if that weren't... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

was post-communist Estonia that launched the Eastern European wave in 1994. Though Slovakia was not the first country to adopt a flat tax nor is it the biggest economy, Slovakia has raised some important issues regarding tax harmonization... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2021
News

Strengthening Democracy

Efforts from the alumni community to get out the vote for the 2020 Presidential election Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government In his address to HBS graduates at this 2019's Class Day, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) spoke about the degeneration of American View Details

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

residents of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket such as the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy. Cape Wind has also confronted opposition from other political leaders as well as Native American groups, tourism and business... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

09 Jun 2015
News

Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru

war that killed 70,000 Peruvians. At a time of political and economic stability, Deza attended HBS while trying to choose between two growth strategies. “I’m an educator first,” she says. “I didn’t know I could do business.” Today, her... View Details

Sep 2016
Survey

Problems Unsolved & A Nation Divided

America retains and enjoys many strengths. However, various economic indicators show that the U.S. economy has failed to deliver strong growth and shared prosperity for nearly two decades. These structural issues pre-date the Great... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

The Realities of the Refugee Crisis

Professor Kristin Fabbe conducted a large-scale survey of Syrian refugees in Turkey, and Professor Gunnar Trumbull coauthored a case on Europe’s response. “Refugee flows are going to be a growing issue as we see an increasing number of... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

Summing Up One of the defining issues in the 1992 U.S. presidential election, NAFTA, has fallen off the radar in the current campaign. This suggests either that many in the U.S. have lost interest in it or, more likely, the subset who... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

Professor at HBS. Far from a drag, he argues, being part of Europe was a key competitive advantage for Britain. Its economy benefitted more from EU funding than it contributed, even as a net contributor to the EU budget. Immigration was a positive, not the negative... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

food, medicine, or cosmetics you use. Consumers would end up restricting what they buy to a few trusted brands. In effect, the FDA has made competition possible in consumer products and even in pharmaceuticals (particularly through the growing generics market) by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

businesses) help in reducing unemployment, illiteracy, poverty, and unsocial practices." Several responses delved more deeply into issues associated with bigness and smallness. Edware Hare commented that "Better we should... View Details