Government Administration - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

corporate America ever win back people's confidence? Harvard Management Update recently discussed this issue with Thomas R. Piper, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and coauthor of Can... View Details

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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

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

practices which encourage managers to use accounting information to improve performance. In contrast, government organizations are publicly governed and are constrained in their compensation practices... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2021
News

Sister Soldier

actor managed to put in place. They aimed for a participatory democracy where women and men govern together. Women are co-heads of every town they govern. A women’s council was created in every town these fighters took back. It is the... View Details

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Research Resources | Baker Library

other archival collections related to the company. Administrative Records, circa 1930–2005 (Series I) Corporate governance and leadership records, 1953–1995; Polaroid Corporation Annual Reports 1937–1996;... View Details

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

forms of capitalism." Citing examples of Dutch and British investments abroad, Cole Woodson comments, "I find the question to be somewhat delinquent ... to the tune of several centuries." He adds that to the extent that returns from investments of View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

John Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he teaches Strategic Marketing Management in the Advanced Management Program.Professor Thales Teixeira teaches Digital... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

public assumes that the government assists them. And it does, to an extent. “There are two government programs that are designed to aid them,” says Kim, “but that aid doesn’t cover the full cost of college.... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

02 Dec 2017
News

The Lines That Divide America

Photo via The Atlantic Photo via The Atlantic In a new article in The Atlantic, Dean Nitin Nohria draws parallels between standing in a waiting line and the current sense of unfairness and inequality being experienced by many Americans. “Access to the line that... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

21 Jan 2010
News

Dubai: Unlike Anywhere Else

Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

30 Oct 2018
News

Paths of Victory

Reflecting HBS’s standing as the top school for entrepreneurs (according to the most-recent PitchBook rankings), the annual HBS New Venture Competition has helped Harvard Business School students and alumni launch dozens of new enterprises. Sponsored by the Arthur Rock... View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs

01 Jun 2010
News

Touting Green Energy’s Potential

MARKEY: Just as the telecom sector was revolutionized in the 1990s by legislation that unleashed competition, so too will a green energy sector be launched, generating enormous wealth creation. In March, at a two-day HBS conference on energy, Congressman Ed Markey... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

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

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, teamed up with Gerardo Perez-Cavazos at the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management and Caspar David Peter at the Rotterdam School of Management to... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Jun 2011
News

America the Unequal

Percent of Wealth Owned: Actual U.S. wealth distribution compared with Estimated and Ideal distributions reported by respondents in a national survey. The “4th” and “Bottom” groups are so small that they are not visible in the Actual distribution. Related Links More... View Details

Keywords: income disparity; class mobility

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

Increasingly, we are also seeing the expansion of the purview of business to issues that typically fall to government and policymakers as a way to improve outcomes for society and the planet overall. For example, let us suppose that a... View Details

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

lot of our business involves selling the data we gather to governments and corporations.” In fact, much of what INRIX has achieved is classic disruption, taking over the roadway data gathering and analysis that previously was done by... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

May 2021 (Revised November 2024)
Case

Colombia: An Economic Premium to Peace?

By: Richard Vietor

Colombia, once the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both labor productivity and total factor productivity have been low for the past decade, despite economic growth of 4.7% annually. Many factors contribute, which... View Details

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01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

for research. Businesses and governments are reassessing Asia-Pacific policies and strategies. People are searching for new intellectual frameworks and ideas. At the same time, in sectors where growth and performance are highly uncertain... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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

Keywords: TARP; Finance

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