Federal Government - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

government bond yields, stabilized until the fall of 2008, when they showed dramatic declines. The paper asks to what extent short-term real interest rates, bond risks, and liquidity explain the trends before 2008 and the unusual... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

that small businesses spend on filling out paperwork at an average of three conventional banks before securing some form of credit, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Fall 2013 Small Business Credit Survey. Upon filling... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

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

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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 Sep 2011
News

Charged Up

company opened a lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in Livonia, Michigan, thanks in large part to $249 million in financing from President Obama’s stimulus package, with a second plant coming online in Romulus, Michigan. “The interplay of state and View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; batteries; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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

01 Jan 2009
News

Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

matched by his commitment to promoting education, government efficiency, and entrepreneurship in Brazil. He is the founder and a director of both Endeavor Brasil, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs in emerging markets, and the Brava... View Details

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

the economy at large absorb adverse economic shocks? Or does the local population decline, stuck in economic decay? The answers to those questions are vital for economists, policymakers, and local governments to decide as new waves of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

03 Dec 2001
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

Summing Up Respondents to the latest "What Do You Think?" column expressed a general lack of concern about adverse effects from Microsoft's settlement with the Federal Government for a variety of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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1.2 General Statement of Conduct | MBA

one’s own well-being, including responsible decision-making regarding physical and mental health. Further, HBS expects every student to be familiar with the regulations governing membership in the Harvard community set forth in this... View Details

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

disaster, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Some research reports estimate that the cost of the CrowdStrike event could exceed $1 billion. Preparation for a crisis is just as crucial as the response. We... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

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

30 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 30

MacCulloch Publication:Chap. 6 in Policymaking Insights from Behavioral Economics, 309-355. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download chapter:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

01 Dec 2004
News

The Future of Stem Cells

River.) In August 2001, President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) announced a ban on federal funding for research on any human embryonic stem-cell lines created after that date. The decision reflected opposition to the use and destruction of... View Details