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

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

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/417023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 418-034 Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago (Abridged) In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, considered his future in Chicago politics. With an unpopular View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

than six years as governor and was boosted by family connections. Mukunda's findings support the LFT theory that unfiltered presidents often turn up at the high and low ends—four of the five highest ranked presidents and four of the five... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

days—almost a year—for the funds to make it to victims.22 The idea of best practices is beguiling, but it wasn’t going to be good enough. The mayor insisted, with the governor joining him, that we would start up our own new fund. “You... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

and David KironHarvard Business School Case 810-105 On January 5, 2010, 48-year-old Richard Canny was on his way to meet the governor of Indiana. He was reading his newly issued press release announcing that THINK planned to start... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

do you solve this problem? Well, one idea is the one (former Massachusetts Governor Mitt) Romney put together, which is called the Connector. It offers individuals a tax-sheltered market for different insurance products. I'm not crazy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

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

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

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

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

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

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

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

Pennsylvania, when the company operating the Three Mile Island power station was found to be issuing information of questionable accuracy, then-Lieutenant Governor William Scranton, responsible for energy policy in the state, went to the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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 the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

interest to torch the planet. Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, points out that insured losses from extreme weather events have risen five-fold in the last 30 years. He wonders if the financial markets face the risk of a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

multibillion-dollar electronics corporation. On his first day in the lab there, he encountered a large banner that read, "George Wallace for President." That proclamation for the pro-segregationist former governor of Alabama was... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

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

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

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