Publications

1997
Working Paper

Courting Disaster? The Transformation of Federal Disaster Policy Since 1803

Awards

Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence

Received the 2009 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching. View Details

May 2009
Article

Private Risk is the Public's Business

By: David Moss

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Society

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03 Nov 2009
News

UK takes right step on too-big banks

September 1995
Teaching Note

Unemployment in France: "Priority Number One" TN

Teaching Note for (9-795-064). View Details

Keywords: France

1998
Working Paper

Public Risk Management and the Private Sector: An Exploratory Essay

TeachingInterests

United States in the World 39 - History of American Democracy

For Harvard College undergraduates and MBA students

Today we often hear that American democracy is broken - but what does a healthy democracy look like? How has American democratic governance functioned in the past, and how has it changed... View Details

23 Feb 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see... View Details

Keywords: April White

22 Sep 2009
News

The Case for Regulatory Reform

This is week when the Wall Street chickens come home to roost. In the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Obama administration has sent Congress a package of regulatory reforms aimed, in large part, at putting an end to what HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government

1997
Chapter

The Deutsche Bank

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Germany

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February 2001
Teaching Note

French Pension System, The: On the Verge of Retirement? & (Abridged)

Teaching Note for (9-798-032) and (9-799-143). View Details

Keywords: Public Administration Industry; France

August 1996 (Revised January 1998)
Teaching Note

Deutsche Bank, The TN

Teaching Note for (1-796-106). View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

April 1996
Case

Confronting the Third Industrial Revolution

Comprises three pieces. The first piece, which forms the body of the case, is adapted from a speech delivered by the author before the Harvard Business School Political Forum in early 1995. Originally entitled "The Economic Foundations of American Social Policy:... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Policy; Economy; Government and Politics; Society; United States

Educators

1998
Working Paper

Limited Liability and the Birth of American Industry: Theory Meets History

1998
Working Paper

Stop-Loss Capitalism: The Ex Ante and the Ex Post of Debtor Protection in America