Publications

November 2007 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Indonesia: Attracting Foreign Investment

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

Describes the economic development of Indonesia from independence after World War II to 2006 and the post-Suharto period. The coverage of the post-Suharto period provides evidence of how political and economic conditions are intertwined after a change in the political... View Details

Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Policy; Foreign Direct Investment; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; Indonesia

26 Jan 2015
News

Seizing opportunities as they come

Being open to possibilities has given Marne Levine (MBA 2005) the chance to work for the president of Harvard, in the Obama administration, and as Facebook’s VP of global public policy. (Published January 2015) View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Lessons from a Megacity

The first step in researching the public transportation system in Buenos Aires: send the private driver home. “How could we be there studying public transportation and not use it?” asks Eryn Schultz (MBA 2015). She was one of 39 students who traveled to Argentina and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

01 Feb 2016
News

Building a Better Boston

Video Embed Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall View Details

February 1996
Background Note

Note on the FDA Review Process for Medical Devices

Describes the FDA's classification scheme for the three classes of medical devices and the review processes. View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Ruling the Waves

in their early stages, to threaten governmental control and authority. While aspects of its power may indeed be diminished, government inevitably survives these apparent challenges, Spar observes, because the state provides "the property... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

July 1998 (Revised March 1999)
Case

Social Security Reform

Examines various approaches to pension reform. Examines the current Social Security system in the United States, pension reform in other countries, and the leading approaches to reform. Concludes with analysis of three questions: 1) would returns be higher in a private... View Details

Keywords: Privatization; Retirement; Welfare or Wellbeing; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry; United States

Find at Harvard

January 1997 (Revised March 1997)
Background Note

Note on Money and Monetary Policy

By: David A. Moss and Wyatt C. Wells

Offers a brief overview of economic thinking about the nature of money and about how the central bank can affect the economy through monetary policy. View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Government Administration; Policy; Central Banking; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Crisis

01 Dec 1999
News

South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

Lucille Meyer (SEP '99) and her boss, South African President Thabo M. Mbeki, know they have a tough act to follow. While Mbeki's predecessor, the legendary Nelson Mandela, basked in the adulation of a country savoring newly won freedoms and democracy, the Mbeki View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

01 Dec 1999
News

Dan Fenn

Administration flourished under Teele, leading ultimately to the admission of women to the MBA Program in the 1960s. The School marked its 50th anniversary with a megaconference - well covered by the Bulletin - on "Management's Mission in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Fenn

08 Jul 2002
What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

Summing Up Don't throw out alignment while fighting greed and ignorance in corporate governance Respondents to this month's column have spoken: The cause of investor mistrust of management is not the concept of alignment; it is, among... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

May 2024
Supplement

Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (B): The 2024 Tech Hub Proposal

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Venture Capital; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Government Administration; City

March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
Case

Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Climate; Entrepreneur; Development; Startup; Climate Change; Venture Capital; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Government Administration; City; Miami