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  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Setting the Legislative Agenda

The Congressional Oversight Panel identified eight specific areas most urgently in need of reform and addressed each with recommendations: Identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risk. Limit excessive leverage in American financial institutions.... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
  • September 1989 (Revised January 1991)
  • Case

Massachusetts Lottery

By: John A. Quelch
Describes the role of state lotteries, lottery marketing, and the operation of the Massachusetts State Lottery, including reference to Massachusetts lottery advertising. Highlights the success of state lotteries while also noting growing criticism, particularly of... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Marketing; Advertising; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 31 Jan 2013
  • News

Bloomberg's Washington footprint explodes

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract: Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment during WWII

By: Nancy Qian and Marco Tabellini
This paper documents that the Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for Black men than for white men and the Black-white gap was larger in counties with higher levels of... View Details
Keywords: State Capacity; Institutions; War; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Government Administration; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

life as a trained assassin, working directly for the South African government to take down prominent political players when requested to maintain national security and apparent order. Join the Dots by Patrick Moffett (AMP 111) Vanguard... View Details
  • August 1984
  • Case

Work of a Regulatory Agency: The EPA and Toxic Substances (Condensed)

By: Joseph L. Bower
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pollutants; Public Administration Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Restoring Order

Last December, calling him “one of the most respected business leaders in our nation,” President George W. Bush (MBA 1975) nominated Wall Street veteran William Donaldson (MBA 1958) to be Securities and Exchange Commission chairman. Charging Donaldson with enforcing... View Details
Keywords: Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance
  • Article

An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Improving European Air Traffic Management

By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Bert De Reyck and Zeger Degraeve
We develop a multistakeholder, multicriteria decision-making framework for Eurocontrol, the European air traffic management organization, for evaluating and selecting operational improvements to the air traffic management system. The selected set of improvements will... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Framework; Operations; Performance Improvement; Government Administration; Air Transportation Industry; Europe
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  • December 1998 (Revised July 2010)
  • Background Note

Passive Activity Losses

By: Henry B. Reiling, Mark Pollard and Kevin Wall
Discusses the historical context, purpose, primary mechanical features, and effects of the passive activity loss rules. View Details
Keywords: Finance; Government Legislation; Taxation; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry
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  • 16 Apr 2014
  • News

Out of Backroom, Into Poll Ring

  • 12 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

1989 to 2014, using data from LexisNexis, the Mass Shootings in America (MSA) project at Stanford University, and a list of shootings created by USA Today. They focused on state rather than Federal regulations, as state governments are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2024
  • Chapter

The Private Economy Under Party-State Capitalism

By: Margaret M. Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee S. Tsai
This chapter addresses the evolution of China’s approach to the private sector from the early reform era until the beginning of Xi Jinping’s third term. It argues that China has evolved from a familiar form of state capitalism, in which economic growth is the primary... View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; International Relations; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economic Systems; China
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  • 18 Jul 2019
  • News

The Pursuit of Impact

successor. “I'm very interested in government and what mayors do to improve people's lives. So we have the Bloomberg Harvard program. Professors from the B school and the K school have provided real help to cities around the country and... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

The City Solution

processes generally, to more closely track and, when necessary, adjust energy expenditures; and educating citizens that if they want to reduce carbon emissions, they must reduce their energy use.” Without sweeping incentives and forceful View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs
  • 20 Nov 2015
  • Working Paper Summaries

Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods

Keywords: by Dina Pomeranz; Public Administration
  • November 2, 2012
  • Editorial

America Needs a Chief Strategy Officer

By: Andy Zelleke and Justin Talbot Zorn
The White House needs someone to look beyond the crisis of the day and focus on the United States' role in the world. View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Government Administration; Management Teams; United States
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  • August 2024
  • Background Note

Brief Note on Congressional and Down-Ballot Races (2024)

By: Robert F. White
This brief note explains the other elections that occur in the United States at the same time as the presidential election. View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • 30 Jan 2017
  • News

HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban

Faculty George F. Baker Professor of Administration Das Narayandas Senior Associate Dean, External Relations and Harvard Business Publishing Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration Dear... View Details
  • Article

Early Withdrawal of Pandemic Unemployment Insurance: Effects on Earnings, Employment and Consumption

By: Kyle Coombs, Arindrajit Dube, Calvin Jahnke, Raymond Kluender, Suresh Naidu and Michael Stepner
In June 2021, 22 states ended all supplemental pandemic unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, eliminating benefits entirely for over 2 million workers and reducing benefits by $300 per week for over 1 million workers. Using anonymous bank transaction data and a... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Unemployment Insurance; Health Pandemics; Insurance; Employment; Financial Condition; Spending; Government Administration
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  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

valid, pay-as-you-go basis would avoiding worsening Medicare’s mammoth unfunded liabilities and could even help address them. The Public Option should also avoid government accounting; independent accountants should verify that the Public... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance