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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
that “government service is the highest form of citizenship,” and as World War II began, he joined up full-time. “I’ll never take a job in government in peacetime, but I’ll take any job in time of war.” He... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
The crisis in American business has spawned tales of colorful characters who will surely live on in folk memory, quipped Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills: the ignorant CEO; the creative accountants; the big-spending dot-com kid. Dark humor aside,... View Details
- November 2010
- Supplement
Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (B)
By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
This (B) case provides the 2009 reflections of former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt on CFTC Chairman Brooksley Born's 1998 efforts to consider regulating the OTC derivative market. It also provides a summary of the aspects of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that regulate these... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; District of Columbia
Rose, Clayton S., and David Lane. "Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 311-070, November 2010.
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
mail. Their idea became Hotmail, the world’s first free web-based email service and the first electronic mail for tens of millions of users. While it was only a promise, the parties struck a deal less than 48 hours after they first met.... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
"Pay our own way? No way." Not long ago, that was the mantra of many a proud nonprofit organization, living on the largesse of government grants and private donations. But with those income sources drying up, suddenly nonprofits... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Governor’s Admission
John Lynch (MBA ’79), New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, stepped away from the State House last February to teach a case about globalization at the University of New Hampshire. A UNH graduate who majored in English, Lynch confessed that his only formal college... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
Michael Roberto and published this year, is “Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11.” The case plumbs the background of what will likely be remembered as one of the most tragic organizational failings in American history: the inability of the country’s View Details
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
In the fall of, the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new rule meant to combat the problem of selective disclosure among public companies and their favorite investors. Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) mandated that any time a publicly traded company... View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
There is a mismatch between what many scholars assume is the purpose of taxes and what most people believe for themselves. That mismatch means that the advice experts offer to policymakers and citizens debating American tax policy can sometimes seem to miss the point.... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- September 2007 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
ValueAct: Shareholder in the Boardroom
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Alexis Chernak
ValueAct, a San Francisco investment firm, makes an investment in PerSe Technologies. The partners of ValueAct build relationships with the PerSe board and management. Eventually ValueAct is given a seat on the PerSe board and is able to influence a significant imprint... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment; Business and Shareholder Relations; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco
Lorsch, Jay W., and Alexis Chernak. "ValueAct: Shareholder in the Boardroom." Harvard Business School Case 408-007, September 2007. (Revised September 2010.)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
“we-dentity” and the power of community in the face of an inefficient, sometimes corrupt, local government. Santa Ana del Valle, for example, provides many of its services (such as policing or maintenance of the church and museum) through... View Details
- 14 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
technologies and providing services that are designed to improve water management worldwide. Already, the fund has invested more than $9 million in 12 companies that address such pressing problems as flood tracking, water waste and reuse,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
says Letelier. About a quarter of nonprofits offer some revenue-creating programs, Letelier observes. For instance, a nonprofit offering free medical assistance in remote Brazilian communities would be eligible for government... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
such as the life cycles of the family business, dilemmas inherent in working with relatives, grooming the next generation of company leadership, governance of the firm, and managing the impact of wealth on the family. "We spend much of... View Details
- February 2006 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Veridian: Putting a Value on Values
By: Rakesh Khurana, Joel Podolny and Jaan Margus Elias
David Langstaff, the CEO of Veridian, a defense company, struggles with the decision of selling the company. Langstaff has concerned himself with inculcalating his organization with the values necessary for superior achievement over the long term. But as a fiduciary,... View Details
Keywords: Cash; Corporate Governance; Financial Markets; Law; Leadership; Patents; Values and Beliefs; Service Industry; Service Industry
Khurana, Rakesh, Joel Podolny, and Jaan Margus Elias. "Veridian: Putting a Value on Values." Harvard Business School Case 406-028, February 2006. (Revised October 2006.)