Reform - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2000
News

Tales Out of School

In 1994, Sarah Hoit (MBA '93) became director of business planning in the White House Office of National Service, designing and implementing AmeriCorps, the Clinton administration's $600 million national- and community-service organization. As she worked with service... View Details

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

supporters note a number of reforms over the past two decades, including a current review of the Bank's information disclosure policy, and a series of "safeguards" on sensitive issues such as environmental impacts and effects on... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

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China in the Age of Xi Jinping: Domestic Changes and Global Ambitions

China's outward push will remake the global economic and political environment, and business leaders need an understanding of China's leadership to navigate this new world. Join Associate Professor Rithmire to discuss the evolution of the business landscape in China. View Details

1984
Book

Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn

By: T. K. McCraw

Keywords: Economic History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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December 1971
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Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous-Time Model

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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July 22, 1990
Article

Japan Isn't Playing by Different Rules

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Japan

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April 2002
Article

If You Want Honesty, Break Some Rules

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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1994
Book

Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America

By: Richard H. K. Vietor

This book explains how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s. The four stories illustrate the dynamic process of... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States

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Spring 1981
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Deregulating and Self-Regulating

By: David A. Garvin

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Health-care reform is more than a political football. For twenty years it's been a ground-level topic of increasing importance for the administrators, physicians, nurses, and frontline employees who interact with patients every day.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

01 Jun 2011
News

Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

Health-care reform has a different meaning for Augustus White (AMP 94, 1984) than the definition you might get from a policy wonk: His reform would ensure equality of medical treatment, no matter the color... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

individuals to find their own excuses. Additional results document heterogeneity in such behavior; the expectation of the ask is particularly detrimental to prosocial behavior among females and those with less previous support of the involved charities. Tort View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2015
First Look

October 6, 2015

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49779 Home Equity Finance and Entrepreneurial Performance—Evidence from a Mortgage Reform By: Jensen, Thais Laerkholm, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We study how a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
News

A bold experiment in education

city after the first year, on track to move the school from an “F” to a “C” in two years. London’s Sunday Telegraph declared NOCP “part of the boldest experiment in education reform seen in the United States.” Says Kleban: “We are part of... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

leaders and governments do instead? We believe the answer is to encourage business groups in the short term to pursue alternative internal reforms that improve their performance and their ability to substitute for market institutions.... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

01 Jun 2005
News

One-on-One with Grover Norquist

twenty years at the forefront of tax reform advocacy, what achievements would you like to be known for? My single most important achievement was creating the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise never to raise taxes. Since 1986, we have... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Jun 2011
News

What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

2021
Working Paper

Being the Boss: Gig Workers' Value of Flexible Work

By: Laura Katsnelson and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Workers who join the gig economy face a challenging trade-off. Gig work provides worktime flexibility and a sense of being one’s own boss, but gig workers forgo certain protections that employees enjoy. In this paper, we study the work patterns of a large sample of... View Details

Keywords: Gig Workers; Flexible Work Arrangements; Worker Welfare; Labor; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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