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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
Owners’ Loan Corporation deemed vast swaths of Baltimore populated by people of color to be “hazardous” and shaded them red on its official maps. Banks refused to offer mortgages and other financial services to residents of these... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
to somehow be of service to others.” A graduate of Morehouse College with a degree in computer science, he recalls that, at the time he applied to HBS, deciding between an advanced degree in business or in religion was “almost a toss-up.”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Rossotti Courtesy HBS Press When Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64) was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, it was the most feared and loathed of all federal government agencies.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of Defense. "I enjoyed public service so much," he says, "that thirty years later, I'm still at it!" After graduating from HBS, and after more years of service at the Defense Ministry, Yeo was named chairman... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Street Journal Rank out of 500,000 Candidates in India's Civil Service Exam: 1 Research Interests: disruptive technologies, investment climate, competitiveness and development Recent Honor: named one of the World Economic Forum's Top 100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
agree that it’s unfair for a secretary to pay taxes at a higher rate than an investor. So let’s bring everyone’s rate down to a flat 15 percent. There’s no reason to raise the rates of million-dollar earners. They don’t use any more View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
casualties," he said, would be the likely result. Counterterrorism and international affairs have been central elements of Bremer's career. Entering the diplomatic service immediately after graduating from HBS, he embarked on several... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
Service Commission, the government’s understaffed anti-corruption agency, to give the group’s volunteers official authorization to examine government office. Motte-Munoz hopes this will allow Bantay to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
of time and lack of knowledge. Their solution? Elevate board service to a profession by creating a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College (CGC) to employ, train, and coordinate the placement... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
When the airlines sought government financial help in the wake of September's terrorist attacks, Delta Airlines chairman and CEO Leo Mullin (MBA '67) emerged as a powerful advocate for the industry, the Los Angeles Times (September 21,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
people don't want Big Brother. We’re just saying, there’s a cost to that,’” notes Weiss. The downside Bay points to is that if users don’t give the government access to their data, public health officials aren’t as able to help those who... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- News
Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations
to help mayors of cities in Israel improve public services for residents and strengthen ties with the global community. Modeled on the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which has supported 200 mayors across the United States... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
calculation follows. What are the hidden economic costs, such as future medical and psychological services for veterans? The number that Stiglitz, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Bilmes, a View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Pentagon Sends an Engineer and a Navy SEAL to Woo Silicon Valley
Keywords: Government
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
day, Lhota thought, as beautiful as any the city ever sees. After seven years in the Giuliani administration, including service as the city's budget director, Lhota, the deputy mayor for operations, was becoming more conscious of each... View Details
- 06 Jul 2017
- News
Leadership on a Global Scale
When the inaugural West Point All-Academies Asia Summit opened in Singapore in June 2015, Ray Jefferson (MBA 2000) celebrated a personal moment of triumph. For the Summit’s point person, this first-ever gathering in Asia for graduates of US View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on... View Details