Governor - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

corporation’s behalf, management has seen Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the state’s legislature continue to litigate the issue by dissolving Disney’s 55-year-old Reedy Creek Improvement District on June 1, 2023 (providing over a year... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

capacity of different hospitals can be readily compared. As measurement and investment experts, FASB’s governors are capable of and motivated to fashion a standard that clearly addresses this issue. Their focus would be to protect the... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

businesses. They also distributed shares of the bank to the state governor or made a loan to the local state government—with the understanding that it most likely would not be repaid. A number of countries have experienced political... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

The Medicaid program provides a much needed health insurance safety net for 52 million of our nation's poor and medically needy, but its price tag threatens the financial stability of the states, growing 9.5 percent in 2004 alone—far in excess of revenues. Fiscally... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

education is a state function, it was crucial to get the governors on board. Working with the governor of New York, we developed a strategy to spread P-TECH across every economic development district in the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

When North Carolina governor Pat McCrory recently signed into law the Public Facilities Privacy & Securities Act, in response to a Charlotte city ordinance that, among other things, would have prohibited discrimination based on sexual... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

21 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Going Negative in Political Advertising

McCain used high profile surrogates such as Governor Charlie Crist to reinforce concerns about his opponent. Why Don't Companies Go Negative? Unlike politicians, companies hardly ever run negative ads. Pepsi ads don't tear down Coke; they... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

the new competitiveness council created by the White House and would give President Obama an occasion for convening the business community to request specific commitments. Governors and mayors could follow suit. No new government funding... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

than prospective, divisive rather than inclusive. It works mostly for older white men who are no longer enjoying the inside track in a more equal society. The Trump campaign m.o. is reminiscent of the description of Ed King's successful 1978 campaign against then... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

26 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508038 Ruling the Modern Corporation: The Debate over Limited Liability in Massachusetts Harvard Business School Case 708-016 In 1830, Governor Levi Lincoln, Jr. urged the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

Critics of such a measure, most on the Republican side of the aisle, argue that Democratic governors and municipal leaders have mismanaged state and local budgets. Green contends that his research offers evidence that a government’s level... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

theoretical model of short-termism developed by Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein, who was recently named to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "One thing that comes out of Stein's theoretical work is that... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

materialized a month or two later if those governors had opted to keep distributing the federal benefits, Kluender says. Unemployment insurance flowing into accounts dropped by $281.50 per week by early September. Yet earnings for those... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

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

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

of the recommended measures and sent the bill to the Governor for his signature. The life insurance industry objected, however, claiming that some of the new rules would reduce consumer choice and unnecessarily lower returns on company... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Britain’s perceived glory days in the nineteenth century, when the country was the economic hub of the world. The Governor of the Bank of England, a legion of economists, and scores of other experts have pointed to the economic risks,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

especially those that were quite loose before the pandemic (for example, southern Europe). "New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has made frequent and effective use of metaphors in the ways that he communicates about COVID-19." Yet, research... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

Alzheimer’s Fund, and John Lynch, later Governor of New Hampshire) had a bright idea. Our friends in large business firms seemed to know how to recruit minority summer interns with the potential for longer-term employment. Why not sell... View Details