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- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
brought to bear on the problem back at home. “Rather than expecting the government to take the initiative, we could establish certain services in a few cities so that the citizens would come to appreciate... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak,... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
Casey applied, and was accepted into, HBS’ deferred admission 2+2 program, using the two years of work experience to explore options in both social policy and business; the former, through staffing assignments at the Center for American Progress, the Cities of View Details
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
faced. There is also a second cause, one that has its roots in the changing shopping experience. During the 1960s, European retailing began moving away from personalized service and toward new self-service sales formats. Abetted by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA
Edited by April White A US military convoy was halted on a road north of Fallujah, among the most dangerous cities in Iraq. There was a possible IED in its path. They needed orders: Should they reroute? At the same moment, another Marine convoy discovered a possible... View Details
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Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
companies that sell to (or around) governments to solve giant problems or who may want to become extreme innovators inside government at some point themselves. The cases feature a broad range of contemporary... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
all Democrats until his statement about the government stepping into a daughter’s agonizing medical decisions. I assume he was talking about abortion. The Democrats cannot understand that the government, in the name of us citizens, has... View Details
H. Ross Perot
A shrewd businessman, Perot built EDS into a large competitor in the computer industry, winning big data processing contracts from companies like Frito Lay and from various government agencies. Perot was also well known for his strong... View Details
Keywords: Services
- Profile
Janet Simpson Benvenuti
Caring for her aging parents led Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985) to launch a company that helps other families find resources that are right for their own parents’ needs. View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
like Watson regularly in the Reserves and has helped the Call of Duty Endowment—the largest private funder of employment for veterans—create a solid path forward for them. “Veterans tend to leave their first jobs after military service... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
purchaser, rather than the generator, of roadway data. The early days required a lot of evangelism, but in the past five years, most governments have begun seeing how much more effective we can be.” Turning View Details
- March 2018 (Revised February 2020)
- Teaching Note
Improving Access at VA
By: Ryan W. Buell and Robert S. Huckman
In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans... View Details
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
from ensured. In the face of teetering European economies, income inequality, resource depletion, mass migration from poor to rich countries, religious fundamentalism, and other threats to continuing prosperity, how can capitalism be sustained? The authors argue that... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
exclusive right of way, typically an elevated guideway, though track can also be installed at or below ground level. A vehicle leaves when passengers are ready, and service is nonstop from origin to destination, with no intermediate stops... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBS Celebrates Launch of New Legacy Society
Named in honor of the late John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947), a visionary business leader, government official, and philanthropist, the society recognizes alumni and friends who make legacy gifts to HBS by including the School in a will,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
voting information accumulates, shareholder organizations such as Institutional Shareholder Services could use the balloting data to create director scorecards. Such objective information, and any accompanying analysis, would serve as a... View Details