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- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
days—almost a year—for the funds to make it to victims.22 The idea of best practices is beguiling, but it wasn’t going to be good enough. The mayor insisted, with the governor joining him, that we would start up our own new fund. “You...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
and David KironHarvard Business School Case 810-105 On January 5, 2010, 48-year-old Richard Canny was on his way to meet the governor of Indiana. He was reading his newly issued press release announcing that THINK planned to start...
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Martha Lagace
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Governor Charlie Baker, and Beth and Seth (MBA 1982) Klarman; the afternoon also included a symposium on democracy, with a session on why competition in the politics industry is failing America, a panel discussion, and a fireside chat....
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- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
Whitman says. “Most of the time it’s worked.” There was that period, from 2009 to 2010, when she ran on the Republican ticket for governor of California and lost to Jerry Brown. (“It’s the only illogical thing she has ever done in her...
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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
Determined to help others achieve their academic goals, Nielsen visited more than 100 schools in nineteen states, talking with everyone from governors to the U.S. Secretary of Education. He asked each person he met the same question: What...
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
who created the country's postapartheid economic blueprint, discussed both the progress made in the five years since the first democratic elections were held and the challenges to come. Chris Stals, governor of the South African Reserve...
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Susan Young
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Sara Enright (MBA 2004) speaks with students at the Community College of Rhode Island. Courtesy Sara Enright When former Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo came into office in 2015, she included in her plans to make the state more...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
make a difference with their philanthropy should read this book. It’s about the efforts in 2010 by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to reform the Newark Public Schools and all of...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
state legislatures, and governorships to sign the pledge. Today, 222 members of the House, 46 senators, the President, more than 1,200 state legislators, and 6 governors all have signed. And that has changed the modern political process...
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Government
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51704 Harvard Business School Case 902-412 Tobacco and the Future of Rural Kentucky Governor Patton decides how to use settlement funds to develop a long-term plan for...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and won the 1994 Massachusetts Democratic primary for lieutenant governor before losing in the general election. Since 1996, Massie has guided CERES, a national coalition of some 85 groups that includes environmental organizations and...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
collaborating with local preservation groups. “I loved going to different parts of the country and learning how important a sense of local place and culture is to people,” Cohen says. Cohen had served on the finance team for former Arizona View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani exhibited remarkable leadership following the September 11 crisis. I also admire Michigan Governor John Engler, who's shown courage in taking on some tough but important political and...
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Eligibility & Criteria Awards How to Apply Past Projects New York City Urban Innovation Roadmap - "Pilot: New York City" Spring 2023 | Focus: Urban Economic Development; Technology; Ecosystem Strategy Team: Zoe Zabor Description: In December 2022, the View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) by New York Governor George Pataki. For Whitehead, this may be one of the most challenging assignments in a remarkable career in which he has served as cochairman of Goldman Sachs, deputy secretary...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
feed that workforce strategy in a way that is equitable? Then one thing that the governor also just launched is the Maryland Economic Council, which is effectively going to set an economic development strategy for the state. And so one of...
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- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
firm; whereas in California, they don't exist. You can debate on whether or not they're enforceable in Massachusetts—quite often they're not. But in some states, you just don't have them at all. So that factors into a manager's practice and thinking. Policymakers—like...
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- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
silence his anticorruption activities. The deputy governor of Kirov called the charges "complete nonsense." Another case, Caijing Magazine, set in China, looks at how an inside-outsider, Wang Boming, uses his independent...
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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
do you solve this problem? Well, one idea is the one (former Massachusetts Governor Mitt) Romney put together, which is called the Connector. It offers individuals a tax-sheltered market for different insurance products. I'm not crazy...
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- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
the deflation that had plagued Japan since around 2000 and to increase the Japanese growth rate. The first of this three-pronged approach consisted of appointing a central bank governor who committed himself to raising the inflation rate...
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Sean Silverthorne