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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
want to protect our core activities of teaching and research and pursue innovation in arenas like the MBA curriculum and artificial intelligence (AI). But we also are focused on how we can do more with less. JK: Last week, the government... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
“It’s not something we can put off because we are in an emergency,” Obama said in December. “This is part of the emergency.” The seed for the Massachusetts reforms was planted in early 2003, in the first weeks of the administration of... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
New Space sector: namely, to use it as a means of launching classroom discussion and research on the subtleties and challenges of the relationship between the public and private sectors. An associate professor of business administration... View Details
- 2008
- Chapter
Public Action for Public Goods: Theory and Evidence
By: Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer and Rohini Somanathan
This chapter focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model of collective action which is intended to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective... View Details
- 2013
- Article
Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews
By: Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi and Michael Luca
Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Food; Governance Compliance; Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry
Kang, Jun Seok, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi, and Michael Luca. "Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews." Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (2013): 1443–1448.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Market Exclusivity and Innovation: Evidence From Antibiotics
By: Edward Kong and Olivia Zhao
The US incentivizes drug innovation via patents as well as market exclusivity periods awarded by the US Food and Drug Administration. We estimate the causal effects of extending market exclusivity for an important drug class: antibiotics. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Kong, Edward, and Olivia Zhao. "Market Exclusivity and Innovation: Evidence From Antibiotics." Working Paper, December 2023.
- November 1999 (Revised May 2000)
- Supplement
Data Supplement: Post-War US Economic Statistics
By: Julio J. Rotemberg and Cherie Nursalim
Supplements Tax Cut of 1964 (9-382-078), Nixon's Economic Strategy--1969 (8-378-258), and The Reagan Plan (9-381-173). View Details
Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Development Economics; Mathematical Methods; Taxation; Policy; Government Administration; Macroeconomics; United States
Rotemberg, Julio J., and Cherie Nursalim. "Data Supplement: Post-War US Economic Statistics." Harvard Business School Supplement 700-070, November 1999. (Revised May 2000.)
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co.... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; 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; 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
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
Enterprises, an international trade consulting and investment firm, Franklin has worked in government with five U.S. presidents, including service as secretary of commerce in the administration of President... View Details
- 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
- Web
Europe - Global Activities 2021
national and regional governments to address the employment challenges facing refugees. ” Brian Trelstad Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Integrating Newcomers The case “Just Arrived: Integrating... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
them. John D.Macomber, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and former chairman and CEO of the George B. H. Macomber Company, a general contractor. Mega sporting events like the Olympics bring a global spotlight, plenty of cash, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
Leadership and Innovation in a New Global Economy So-Young Kang (MBA 2004) (Awaken Group Pte. Ltd.) Too often, people look at leaders and focus on their accomplishments and successes, but Kang examines the more human side of 12 Singaporean business and View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master
In an April appearance at HBS, Kenneth Feinberg, the special master for TARP executive compensation, denied that he was an autonomous “pay czar,” explaining that within parameters decreed by congressional legislation, he viewed himself mainly as a negotiator. Thus, his... View Details
- Student-Profile
Talia Gillis
policies, made me aware of the gap that often exists between the theory and actual impact of law. Studying economics has provided me with the empirical tools need to closely evaluate the actual effects of policies. I also have a strong interest in experimental... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
City Hall’s Headbanger
Above: photo by Minesh Bacrania As mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tim Keller (MBA 2005) is focused on bread-and-butter initiatives that drive down crime and attract business. And he’s been successful on both counts since taking office just over a year ago: Crime is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
must grow crops even as the available water supply to his operation is curtailed by drought conditions, court decisions, and quotas imposed by government agencies. The case examines how water, a basic building block of agriculture, is... View Details
- 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