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- June 2017
- Case
Waze Connected Citizens Program
By: Mitchell Weiss and Alissa Davies
Di-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze, founded the company’s Connected Citizens Program (CCP), a data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data. Since 2015, her program had enabled officials in Kentucky and elsewhere to... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Waze; Public-Private Partnerships; Scaling Technology Ventures; Di-Ann Eisnor; Paige Fitzgerald; Noam Bardin; Ehud Shabtai; Cities; Traffic; Crowdsourcing; API; Scaling Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Information Technology; Transportation; Growth Management; Transportation Industry; Israel; Indonesia; United States; Brazil; Los Angeles; Kentucky
Weiss, Mitchell, and Alissa Davies. "Waze Connected Citizens Program." Harvard Business School Case 817-035, June 2017.
- 2007
- Chapter
Health Services for the Poor in Developing Countries: Private vs. Public vs. Private & Public
By: Tarun Khanna and David M. Bloom
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Poverty; Welfare or Wellbeing; Developing Countries and Economies; Public Sector; Private Sector; Health Industry
Khanna, Tarun, and David M. Bloom. "Health Services for the Poor in Developing Countries: Private vs. Public vs. Private & Public." In Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
- June 2011
- Case
Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 1
By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Joel Klein takes over NYC's public schools and begins to reform the nation's largest system by depoliticizing, rationalizing management, and confronting the union so that the focus is on the kids. View Details
Bower, Joseph L., and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein's Transformation of NYC's DOE, Day 1." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 311-705, June 2011.
- 2010
- Chapter
Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition, and Public Goods in India
By: Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer
- 2008
- Working Paper
Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of immigrant workers into... View Details
Pekkala Kerr, Sari, and William R. Kerr. "Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-013, July 2008. (NBER WP 16736, Revised February 2011, forthcoming in Finnish Economic Papers.)
- January 2017
- Article
Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods
By: Dina Pomeranz
Recent years have seen a large expansion in the use of rigorous impact evaluation techniques. Increasingly, public administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public... View Details
Pomeranz, Dina. "Impact Evaluation Methods in Public Economics: A Brief Introduction to Randomized Evaluations and Comparison with Other Methods." Special Issue on Expanding the Frontier of Behavioral Public Economics. Public Finance Review 45, no. 1 (January 2017): 10–43. (Published early online November 5, 2015. Spanish version available by clicking on "Details.")
- February 2015 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Poseidon Carlsbad: Desalination and the San Diego County Water Authority
By: John Macomber
Extreme drought conditions in California have significant impacts on the ability of the San Diego County Water Authority to provide adequate water for current users. Water shortfalls also could curtail the economic development of one of the fastest growing regions in... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Resource Allocation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Infrastructure; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; California
Macomber, John. "Poseidon Carlsbad: Desalination and the San Diego County Water Authority." Harvard Business School Case 215-057, February 2015. (Revised December 2016.)
- 1986
- Chapter
Food Marketing Public Enterprises
By: James E. Austin and Michael J. Buckley
Keywords: Food; Marketing; Distribution; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Austin, James E., and Michael J. Buckley. "Food Marketing Public Enterprises." In Marketing Perspectives of Public Enterprises in Developing Countries, edited by K.L.K. Rao.ICPE Monograph Series. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: International Center for Public Enterprises in Developing Countries, 1986.
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
Politics at Work
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details
Colonnelli, Emanuele, Valdemar Pinho Neto, and Edoardo Teso. "Politics at Work." Working Paper, December 2022.
- January 2022
- Article
The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry
By: Abhishek Nagaraj
How does public data shape the relative performance of incumbents and entrants in the private sector? Using a simple theoretical framework, I argue that public data reduces investment uncertainty, facilitates the discovery of new market opportunities and increases the... View Details
Keywords: Public Data; Maps; Gold; Microeconomic Behavior; Economics; Data and Data Sets; Private Sector; Market Entry and Exit; Mining
Nagaraj, Abhishek. "The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry." Management Science 68, no. 1 (January 2022): 564–582.
- March 2011
- Teaching Note
Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel (TN)
By: Karthik Ramanna
Teaching Note for 111028. View Details
- December 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ajay Vinze, T.S. Raghu and Minu Ipe
Addresses the issues of leadership and change management in the process of transforming an industry through an innovative public-private partnership approach to policy making. In 2005, the Governor of Arizona issued an Executive Order to create a roadmap for the state... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Private Sector; Public Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Health Industry; Service Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Ajay Vinze, T.S. Raghu, and Minu Ipe. "Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap." Harvard Business School Case 808-072, December 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- January 2001
- Case
Merck Global Health Initiatives (A)
By: James E. Austin, Diana Barrett and James Weber
The case series focuses on Merck's drug donation program and then raises new issues facing management about what to do about HIV/AIDS in Africa given the company's development of a new therapy. Describes collaboration among many parties including the Gates Foundation,... View Details
Keywords: Programs; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Private Sector; Public Sector; Alliances; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Botswana
Austin, James E., Diana Barrett, and James Weber. "Merck Global Health Initiatives (A)." Harvard Business School Case 301-088, January 2001.
- 2012
- Article
A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance
By: Sendhil Mullainathan, Joshua Schwartzstein and William Congdon
Research in behavioral public finance has blossomed in recent years, producing diverse empirical and theoretical insights. This article develops a single framework with which to understand these advances. Rather than drawing out the consequences of specific... View Details
Mullainathan, Sendhil, Joshua Schwartzstein, and William Congdon. "A Reduced-Form Approach to Behavioral Public Finance." Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012): 511–540.
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Making Private Data Accessible in an Opaque Industry: The Experience of the Private Capital Research Institute
By: Josh Lerner and Leslie Jeng
Private markets are becoming an increasingly important way of financing rapidly growing and mature firms, and private investors are reputed to have far-reaching economic impacts. These important markets, however, are uniquely difficult to study. This paper explores... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Leslie Jeng. "Making Private Data Accessible in an Opaque Industry: The Experience of the Private Capital Research Institute." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 106, no. 5 (May 2016): 157–160.
- 2007
- Chapter
The Rationales and Performance of Public Venturing: Survey Evidence from Belgium and Finland
By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr. "The Rationales and Performance of Public Venturing: Survey Evidence from Belgium and Finland." In Essays in Entrepreneurial Finance, by Ant Bozkaya, 95–139. Université libre de Bruxelles, 2007. (Reprinted in Entrepreneurial Finance: Financing of Young, Innovative Ventures (Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag, 2009), 95-139.)
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
covering basic facts about the country and legal questions about travel from the United States. (“Which is still legal,” says Gordon, noting that the misconception is widespread.) But most of what Benedetti lays out about the challenges he faces operating in Cuba’s... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the exchange of cyberattack data... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details