District of Columbia - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Apr 2011
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The Power of Political Voice: Women’s Political Representation and Crime in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra & Petia Topalova

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School Accountability and Principal Mobility: How No Child Left Behind Affects the Allocation of School Leaders

By: Danielle Li

The move toward increased school accountability may substantially affect the career risks that school leaders face without providing commensurate changes in pay. Since effective school leaders likely have significant scope in choosing where to work, these uncompensated... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Education; North Carolina

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01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets

debate each month, about which customers may voice their concern to key decision-makers through free calls and easy-to-send letters. "Thanks to the HBS course Managing in a Competitive Environment, I knew the importance of segmenting the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

07 Aug 2019
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“The Star of the North”

The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 2000
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Stevenson Named Director of External Relations

in traditional and new-media formats." The author of numerous books and articles, Stevenson has recently completed the third edition of The Entrepreneurial Venture, with HBS faculty members William A.... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

men resolved to set up a program in their rural county that would bring in students from each district high school for a daily class in entrepreneurship. Dubbed CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) by its first group View Details

Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing

November 2022 (Revised April 2024)
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Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics: A Series of Implausible Dreams

By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau

In 1990, satellite expert and Sirius XM founder Martine Rothblatt was determined to save the life of her seven-year-old daughter, Jenesis, who was diagnosed with a terminal illness called Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). At the time, there was little medication... View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Technological And Scientific Innovation; Organ Donation; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; District of Columbia

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April 2017
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The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April... View Details

Keywords: Machine Learning; Telework; Collaborating With Unions; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Trademarks; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; District of Columbia

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16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

over the last three decades, educational performance in the United States has shown only marginal improvement, and lags that of other developed countries in Europe and Asia. While some school districts have... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

12 May 2016
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2016 G&WS: Valerie Purdie-Vaughns Presents “Inverted Influence: Blacks, Whites, and Difficult Conversations about Race”

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

including Columbia University. Clarence Harley Research Associate Clarence Harley is a Research Associate on Managing the Future of Work and U.S. Competitiveness projects. He has broad research interests in... View Details

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

pondered the impact of fake news on democracy, the potential for government regulation of the internet, and the future of business models that support traditional media such as... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

02 Jan 2018
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Bringing Teachers to All of America

sure that rural classrooms and high-poverty districts have strong teachers for critical-needs subjects. In many of the districts that we work with, with many View Details

21 May 2016
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2016 G&WS: A Conversation with Valerie Purdie-Vaughns on Fostering Effective Positive Cross-Race Dialogue

July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
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Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett

Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Technological Innovation; Higher Education; Adoption; Health Industry; District of Columbia

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30 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

because the whole city relies on district heating. Direct connection to the district heating system also enabled the plant to include design features that boost the incinerator’s energy efficiency. For... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events

Recent HBS Alumni Events on Campus and Beyond 1 Members of the Classes of 2003 to 2017 gathered for a Young Alumni Reception at Joy District Chicago in September. 2 The MBA... View Details

2025
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When Where Watt: Harnessing the Value of Time and Location for Renewable Electricity Generation

By: Vishrut Rana, Christian Kaps and Serguei Netessine

Problem definition: Investments in renewable energy have surged worldwide in recent years, with over $2 trillion spent globally on clean energy. This surge was driven by growing policy support, concerns about energy security, and, most importantly, the cost... View Details