local government - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

properly? Possibly," she said. "Could they potentially put social pressure on CEOs who are acting badly?" Global Threatens Local Harvard Business School's Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

growing concern, HUL has created a system of viable, decentralized MRFs throughout wards in Mumbai through a public- private partnerships with the BMC local government. The government provides the land for... View Details

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

online advertisers, these are poor substitutes.4 The harm to advertisers will be particularly acute for those advertisers that currently advertise on Yahoo for average to obscure search terms—e.g., small businesses selling unusual products, or View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and frequency of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and government elites, primarily through View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2005
News

Bringing Hope to a Violent Land

workweek is filled with staff meetings, conferences, public events, negotiations with government officials about programs and their implementation, and donor-relations work with local embassies. She finds... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; UNICEF; nonprofit; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

ecosystem of partnerships and collaborations." Three panelists outlined some of those collaborations. Mary L. Fifield, president of Bunker Hill Community College, described that school's partnership with a consortium of local... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

Web

IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

examine the role of Singapore in the evolving geopolitical environment. We will spend time on the various ways in which the Singapore Government has helped create the infrastructure, workforce, policies and incentives that attract... View Details

11 Jul 2025
News

Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast

Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the headquarters of Traeger Grills... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

17 Jun 2020
News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

resources to help the government address the needs of the Filipino people while ensuring the safety and well-being of the employees, staff, artists, and journalists of the network. Together with its foundation, the company has raised... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Oct 2021
News

HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures

Thrive! helps communities of color Roughly 84 percent of children born into poverty will live in poverty for the rest of their lives. Thrive! is a software-as-a-service that helps local governments break the... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

insurance (for such individuals, another function of the Connector is deciding “affordability,” that is, how much those individuals should be subsidized and how much they should pay out-of-pocket). This uninsured-care fund previously had been bankrolled by the state... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

and national security issues worsened in part by migration out of newly unlivable situations. How can investors, businesses, and global society face these issues? Governments and development finance institutions (DFIs) clearly don’t have... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Global Perspectives

group toured the PSA Singapore terminal, the world’s largest container transhipment hub. The immersion culminated in a symposium in Singapore attended by local alumni and other business leaders. Several faculty members discussed their... View Details

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

health than for the other three components of their health footprint. One reason may be the greater difficulty of measuring return on investment for community health initiatives. Companies also tend to lump community health programs under View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

01 Sep 2005
News

Make Plans for Washington GLF

extraordinary for the access it provided alumni to senior HBS faculty as well as to European business and government leaders. It’s one of the School’s great strengths that it can assemble so many of the world’s top business minds.... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2014
News

Net Gains

of businesspeople and people focused on development of the game," says Tatum. That team works with everyone from sponsors to local governments to set up events and training programs—spreading the game from... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

09 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 9

KhuranaHarvard Business School Note 311-115 The purpose of this note is to describe the manner in which publicly traded corporations and local governments in the United States account for their pension... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

investments in green building expertise by local suppliers. These findings suggest that government procurement policies can accelerate the diffusion of new environmental standards, which require coordinated... View Details