• January 2004
• Case

Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

By: David A. Moss

Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Policy; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Problems and Challenges; Urban Development; United States

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Moss, David A. "Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003." Harvard Business School Case 704-030, January 2004.

• 18 Jun 2007
• Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they report to shareholders. In View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

• February 2016 (Revised March 2018)
• Case

Labor, Capital, and Government: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano

In late October 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt felt relieved after months of anxiety and uncertainty. Workers in Pennsylvania's anthracite coal industry had been on strike for five months, threatening to leave eastern cities in the cold without enough heating fuel... View Details

Keywords: Governance; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Government Relations; Labor; Law; Policy; Mining; History; Mining Industry; Pennsylvania

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Moss, David, and Marc Campasano. "Labor, Capital, and Government: The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902." Harvard Business School Case 716-046, February 2016. (Revised March 2018.)

• 07 Jul 2008
• Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

testimonies in court documents, sources that were not yet available for earlier books on Enron. In addition, he interviewed former Enron executives and acquired internal Enron documents, which extended and deepened his research.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

• 27 Apr 2016
• Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

It is hard to imagine a more difficult and tragic trial by fire for a new leader. On September 4, 2001, Robert Mueller started his new job as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A mere week later, on September 11,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

• 18 May 2016
• Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana If you’ve ever tuned into a Congressional testimony or legal deposition, you’ve likely heard a witness respond to a question with the words “I don’t... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

• Web

Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Stephan Heller. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Master's World Powerlifting Competition Championship (83kg). Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Cohen : Winner of the 2022 International Powerlifting Federation (IPF) Master's World Powerlifting Competition Championship (83kg). Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2022 Best Paper Award on Finance in Management Science from the Finance... View Details

• 27 Jul 2019
• Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

2014 midterms. Now 16 months away from the next election, efforts have been joined to prevent voter tampering from happening again. But I don’t think significant progress has been accomplished—a view bolstered in recent testimony before... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

• 01 Apr 2022
• Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower

communities fighting gun violence. Financed with federal money from the Cares Act, the program is now administered by new-New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Keith is hopeful that the program will grow to 2000 to 3000 trainees each year... View Details

• 09 Feb 2016
• First Look

February 9, 2016

Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39907 Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'? Organizational Design and Identity Change at the Federal Bureau of Investigation By: Gulati, Ranjay, Ryan Raffaelli, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 01 Sep 2009
• News

Over the Top

Street’s outsize pay packages “shameful,” especially for companies in need of federal bailouts. Such pay, he said, is “exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis — a... View Details

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

• 21 Sep 2009
• Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

"shameful," especially for companies in need of federal bailouts. Such pay, he said, is "exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis—a culture of narrow... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

• 01 Jun 2018
• News

The Long Run

online prevention program, which provides the information and resources for them to lead interactive classes on the abuse of opioids and heroin. The students watch a “Not Prescribed” video provided by a Colorado nonprofit that includes first-person View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

• 15 Oct 2008
• First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

link individuals with crime scenes and fathers to their children. Special problems of trust have arisen, because the domain of scientific practice termed 'DNA typing' emerged in a commercial context, and its results serve as the basis for expert witness View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace