Educational Policy And Politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

October 1998 (Revised June 2002)
Case

Austin, Texas: Building a High-Tech Economy

By: Bruce R. Scott and Srinivas Sunder

Members of the community decide to try to diversify the economy of Austin, Texas, by welcoming high-technology firms and by augmenting the electrical engineering faculty at University of Texas--Austin. View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Diversification; Information Technology; Policy; Government and Politics; Engineering; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Higher Education; Texas

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March 2004 (Revised August 2004)
Case

Restricting Foods of Minimal Nutritional Value in Texas Public Schools

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan

The Commission of Agriculture in Texas wants to improve the nutritional quality of the school lunch program to help fight obesity in students. It needs the cooperation of the soft drink industry to change their products and the manner in which they provide financial... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Nutrition; Food; Quality; Education; Education Industry

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12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

potential reason that voters and political parties can’t even agree on which laws they should target, and whether to loosen or tighten them,” says Malhotra, the Eli Goldston... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Ralph Johnson

for you? I’m going to work with McKinsey in Chicago as a generalist. Consulting gives me the flexibility to find where my skills work best and to discover what I’m most interested in. Long-term, I hope I can have an impact on education:... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

tax system can help us get there" On a recent and unexpectedly warm day for a New England fall, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge sat down to discuss tax policy in general View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

restrictions included the ability to get visas for highly talented foreign workers and graduate students. One of the great strengths of America is our phenomenal system of higher education; we have educated... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

where FNC was available. Before the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which put a cap on soft money donations to national political parties, firms were allowed to make large donations to parties whose proposed View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

August 1981
Case

West Point: The Cheating Incident (B)

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

A review of the activities following the expose of the cheating incident at West Point and leading up to the Secretary of the Army's decision on the situation. View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Ethics; Judgments; Government Administration; Education Industry; Education Industry

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March 2006
Module Note

International Regulatory Regimes

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Describes the seventh module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module focuses on how national and international regulatory regimes influence financial decisions. The module explores how national regulatory regimes interact, the... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; International Finance; Decisions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business Ventures; Teaching; International Relations; Education Industry

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24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

costs by adopting three other strategies, although each would probably trigger a political battle: Cities could change their healthcare policies for retired workers by increasing deductibles View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

helped create this situation. Or as Calvin Young (MBA 2015), a Baltimore native and 2016 mayoral candidate who now works at the private equity firm Green Street Impact Partners, puts it, “there was real intentionality around the View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

12 Feb 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel; Education

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

competition in health care must change. Our research shows that competition in the health care system occurs at the wrong level, over the wrong things, in the wrong geographic markets, and at the wrong time. Competition has actually been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

23 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

stability than its predecessors. Unity, perhaps: for only under a strongly unified political system could a policy such as the Great Leap Forward reach into every Chinese village with such lethal... View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
Case

The Honor Foundation: Accessing Special Operations Talent

By: Boris Groysberg and John Masko

In 2020, The Honor Foundation (THF), a nonprofit dedicated to helping U.S. military special operators to transition into civilian careers, was facing a series of strategic challenges. THF had been founded in 2013 by former Navy SEAL trainee Joe Musselman, who observed... View Details

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14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government. View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

March 2012
Article

Reviving Entrepreneurship

By: Josh Lerner and William Sahlman

New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Policy; Economy; Public Administration Industry; United States

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