Public Administration - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2008
News

Back to the Future

term. So interested was the public in its findings and analysis, the book became a widely praised New York Times bestseller. It was also “a model of what university research and monograph writing on a major question of policy should be,”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

25 Feb 2020
News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

Workforce Transformation program. Then there are the many published reports that can be broadly shared and disseminated. JF: One publication getting significant traction that I’m excited about is The Caring Company, a first-of-its-kind... View Details

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

place to study the misery of joblessness and the value of work, but not to Reshmaan N. Hussam, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. After reading about the atrocities, she visited the camp in December... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to study how school districts spend money. "The outcome is that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Sep 2015
News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

were invaluable in helping Taylor sharpen his vision for the mission. “Lynda encouraged the idea of taking a public company like AmREIT and building an incubator charity alongside it. She felt an entrepreneurial, charitable initiative... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

its campus, the School acted quickly to address another critical challenge, one underscored by the murder of George Floyd and other highly publicized incidents of racial injustice in the United States: How does HBS create a culture and an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South Korea teaches us is that proactive... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

15 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 15

Publications August 2013 American Economic Review Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity By: Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract—Private equity critics claim that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2022 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Pittsburgh: A Successful City?

By: Karen Mills, Caroline Elkins, Vikram Gandhi, Gabriella Elanbeck and Zeke Gillman

Pittsburgh, PA, was once the crown jewel of American heavy industry. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city was an undisputed leader in steel production, boasting some of the largest companies and wealthiest individuals in the world. Its abundance of... View Details

Keywords: Economic And Social Disparities; Economic Development; Local Economic Development; Contextual Intelligence; Contextual Knowledge; Context; City Growth; City Innovation; City Leadership; Pittsburgh; Local Government; Local Stakeholders; Business And Community; Business And Community Relations; Community Engagement; Community Relations; Cross-sector Collaboration; Innovation; Innovation Economy; Innovation Clusters; Innovation Ecosystems; Shared Prosperity; Equality Of Opportunity; Equity; Inclusion; Business And Government; Business ＆ Government Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Society; Neighborhoods; Race And Ethnicity; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Household; Income; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economics; Local Range; Urban Development; Urban Scope; City; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Growth and Development; History; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Public Sector; Social Issues; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania

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01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

technology, and logistics. Of all the project’s phases, however, transportation is the issue that really gets Mawilmada going, the one that, in his mind, will be a complete game changer. It’s something he’s spent countless hours on, sitting in meetings, speaking in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

according to two new surveys by Paul A. Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Only about 10 percent of companies in this often unpredictable industry have been severely affected.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

Philanthropy in US Communities, which was published in the March issue of Administrative Science Quarterly. The study adds to a growing line of academic research highlighting the importance of a firm's main location, even in an era of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

There I met with a representative from Education Pioneers, an organization that places MBAs into the education sector at public or charter school systems, departments of education, ed-tech companies, or other education-related... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

locally grown coca fibers for the manufacture of head rests and seats. With the help of Brazilian NGOs and the U.S. government's Inter-American Foundation, he found a community organization called POEMA in the impoverished northern part of the country near Belem where... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

encourage voter turnout among customers, similar to Facebook's Election Day notifications or Lyft’s discounted rides to polling stations. Support election administration by donating resources such as ballot boxes, office supplies, and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Dec 2006
News

The Hard Way

Centre. “It was time to cash in on my public profile and cement the connection in people’s minds between training and job placement and Sarina Russo,” she explains. To fill the center’s nine vacant floors, Russo won government contracts... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

updating the 10 disruptive forces identified in the first edition, showing how managers can address these challenges, and describing how public confidence in the market system could be rebuilt. The revised edition includes examples of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

public was further damaged recently by revelations in the Panama Papers about his stockbroker father’s offshore activities, has presided over two of them. The Scottish independence referendum in 2014 nearly resulted in Scotland’s leaving... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

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