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- 25 Sep 2009
- News
Are You Being Served?
alumni like former IRS commissioner Charles Rossotti (MBA ’64) brought customer service best practices from the private sector to government (http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2000/april/qanda.html). Of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Building Community in the Bay Area
his experiences with his board and about critical issues relating to governing nonprofit organizations today. The event was hosted by the HBS Community Partners, a group established by the HBS Association of Northern California in 1986 to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
"V" (for valor) from President Clinton. Leaving active duty in 1996, Walsh earned a master's degree at the Kennedy School of Government before entering HBS, where he has been active in student government. While a political career may be... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Pledge of Allegiance
Norquist: Backstage, an outsized role. As the political season heats up, few nonpoliticians wield as much ideological impact on the process as Grover Norquist (MBA 1981). For two decades, Norquist’s organization, Americans for Tax Reform, has persuaded Republican... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in the ways in which Mexico’s long history with authoritarian View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
an excellent public-private partnership model that provided the right incentives for investment and the flexibility to attack the problems in service delivery. This was key. How did you structure Manila Water’s concession with the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the end, that’s what an effective government does: It provides services to citizens and gives them the basics to do better. Today’s system creates fewer and fewer of those opportunities to move up,” says... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
government and individual donors may have different priorities and demands, and soon a nonprofit trying to please too many (including the general public) pleases no one—least of all those constituents they were hoping to help.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
predictable date for its demand. There is certainly a need for more research into vaccine-production technologies and for greater production capacity, and WHO encourages vaccine firms and national governments to invest in such areas. How... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in Costa Rican public... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Upon Further Review I found “Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit” in the June Bulletin to be a brief but exciting summary of the three-person panel discussion that took place at the Kennedy School of Government last March. For a while, it... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
experiences and services at scale, from the smartphone to the desktop to interactive TV." —Bob Lord (MBA 1990), CEO, AOL Networks "Cloud storage will become more specialized (versus generic services like... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
sign-up process is easy. Service members and veterans can validate their military service against a government database or a military financial institution catering to nine... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
awareness to the needs of these families. To date, the foundation has provided $33 million in support to 1,600 students. Kim wants to reach all students, but concedes they can be difficult to find. “The government tracks some of that data... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
one did anything.” Mayor Rodríguez Larreta (above) plans to reinvigorate the “misery towns” of Buenos Aires by providing basic public services and diverting the highway that bisects the barrio (below). Bloomberg/Getty Images Villa 31 has... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
“Yes, sir. No, sir. No excuse, sir.” —A case study in responsibility—in business or the military Chris Howard (MBA 2003) served in the Air Force in Afghanistan, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star; he retired from the reserve in 2013 as a lieutenant colonel. He is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
LERNER: The federal government lacks a clear, rational process for spending $40 billion to boost the nation’s clean-tech industry. Across the decades and around the globe, governments have tried various... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
council with representatives pulled from the many student clubs and regular “office” hours in the Spangler Grille. Jyoti Agarwal, running with Fred Smith, talked about working across university constituencies to effect change, from coordinating with Career View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
production and exports. As a member of the entrepreneurs union and chief of its economic commission, I am quite active in the ongoing work of labor and government relations to better our economic environment. The key for us will be to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
David Moss was asked to consider "what role the federal government should play, if any, in indemnifying terrorism-related risks." Moss, whose new book, When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk... View Details