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- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947) was a government official in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He served as assistant secretary of defense for installations and logistics and, from 1967 to... View Details
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Europe - Global Activities 2020
2003), a native of Serbia, who offered to make introductions to Serbia’s government and business community. Reinert drew on the resources and local expertise of ERC members in conducting his research and worked with Federica Gabrieli, an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
exemplifies energetic government and vigorous federal programs for economic growth. Gallatin symbolizes low taxes and less intrusion by government." Not surprisingly, the two men (after whom two HBS... View Details
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Matt Oppenheimer
Since college, Matt Oppenheimer's career choices have been guided by two passions: the "fast-paced and results driven" environment of investment banking and the social mission of nonprofits. Matt currently sits on the boards of the Planned Parenthood View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
enforcement according to his measure of employment intensity, presenting his findings in the 2014 paper Government Preferences and SEC Enforcement. The data supported Heese's hypothesis. Companies in the top 25 percent of employment... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/56113 Working Papers The Federal Reserve's Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—This paper studies the persistence and some of the consequences of the eventual abandonment by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
technologies and services. The federal government has a history helping to grow interesting science – but not scale technologies and services companies. This requires a lot of grit and determination from... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
high-level government jobs. "This was the first time that any presidential administration had done anything specific with respect to women, and I was excited to be a part of it," Franklin recalls. She saw firsthand that women were "vastly... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Says Gould, "The provision of adequate housing for people at all income levels is a problem that's never going to be solved by free-market economics. Only the federal government has the resources necessary... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Profile
David Kang
the U.S. federal government relates to the states. Suddenly, we saw parallels that made India, a place most of us knew little about, a very relevant and important topic." The HBS immersions reinforce a... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
disease is also stymied by the fact that public health in the United States is largely relegated to the states, which vary in their commitment and capacity, and none of which have the resources of the federal government. Ebola may serve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
Clinton as assistant secretary and CFO of the Department of Commerce, Bilmes’s attention shifted to government spending. “The government is good at making promises, but poor at valuing what those promises... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Strategic Plan | Information Technology
advances. We’re excited to share progress and developments on the plan with the HBS community. Developing the Plan Hear from Beth Clark, CIO, and Rachel Noiseux, Senior Director, Strategy, Planning and Governance on the Building of the IT... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
by federal law, in order to receive government reimbursements. “As a provider with limited resources and tremendous pressure to decrease cost, we can only focus on so many initiatives at once,” notes Kevin... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
became securities-trading companies more than money-raising companies. Meanwhile, an ideological war was developing in the country between those who believed government was largely the cause of the economic problems that bedeviled the... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
Critics have denounced this proposal as yet another government intrusion into the market and a futile attempt to "pick winners." What these critics ignore is that the US government has a long... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
are big differences,” says Pons, who mined what is believed to be one of the most comprehensive data sets of political contributions made through online fundraising platforms such as ActBlue (Democrat) and WinRed (Republican) and reported to the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
through the years sharp rises in agricultural production and population quickly depleted the local water supplies. In response, the state and federal governments stepped in and created a water infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
sportswriter Brian Phillips wrote in the New York Times. “The next thing I want to see from United States soccer is a jackhammer, not a news conference.” “It was heartbreaking,” says Carlos Cordeiro (MBA 1980), who at the time was vice president of US Soccer, the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details