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- January–February 2021
- Article
Food and Drug Administration Guidance Documents and New Medical Devices: The Case of Breast Prostheses
By: Rachel E. Weitzman, Ariel Dora Stern and Daniel B. Kramer
As pressure mounts on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to speed its review process for novel devices, and budgetary pressures further strain its resources, the critical role of guidance documents in assuring consistent, rigorous, and scientifically grounded...
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- December 2020
- Supplement
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government of Tulsa to pay reparations for the massacre. In...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate governance;
Policy;
governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
government Legislation;
government And Politics;
government administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Welfare;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- December 2020
- Teaching Note
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai and Suzanne Antoniou
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government of Tulsa to pay reparations for the massacre. In...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate governance;
Policy;
governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
government Legislation;
government And Politics;
government administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Welfare;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- October 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations
By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan
How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government of Tulsa to pay reparations for the massacre. In...
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Keywords:
Cost Vs Benefits;
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Decisions;
Judgments;
Race;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values And Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate governance;
Policy;
governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms;
government Legislation;
government And Politics;
government administration;
Lawsuits And Litigation;
Legal Liability;
Leading Change;
Mission And Purpose;
Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact;
Conflict And Resolution;
Conflict Management;
Loss;
Motivation And Incentives;
Perspective;
Prejudice And Bias;
Civil Society Or Community;
Social Issues;
Tulsa;
Oklahoma;
United States
- September 2020
- Case
Minerva 2004: Discovery
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After nearly five years in operation, Doctor Cynthia Bamdad, founder and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies Corporation (Minerva), was reflecting on the company’s next steps. In a few short years, she and her small team had managed to develop a nanoparticle process for...
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- July 2020
- Case
King's College Hospital in Crisis
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of...
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- June 2020 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
TraceTogether
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore’s...
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Keywords:
Covid-19;
Contact Tracing;
government administration;
Crisis Management;
Health;
Health Pandemics;
Innovation And Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Social Issues;
Technology;
Mobile Technology;
Software;
Technology Adoption;
Health Industry;
Public administration Industry;
Singapore
- 2020
- Working Paper
Global Behaviors and Perceptions in the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Thiemo Fetzer, Marc Witte, Lucas Hensel, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Johannes Haushofer, Andriy Ivchenko, Stefano Caria, Elena Reutskaja, Christopher Roth, Stefano Fiorin, Margarita Gomez, Gordon Kraft-Todd, Friedrich M. Goetz and Erez Yoeli
We conducted a large-scale survey covering 58 countries and over 100,000 respondents between late March and early April 2020 to study beliefs and attitudes towards citizens’ and governments’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Most respondents reacted strongly to the...
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- January 2020 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Huawei: A Global Tech Giant in the Crossfire of a Digital Cold War
By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and John P. McHugh
By 2020, Ren Zhengfei, CEO of Huawei, had transformed the small telephone switch manufacturer he founded in 1987 into a $120 billion telecommunications company poised to lead the lucrative rollout of fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks. However, an emerging...
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- Article
Economic Principles for Medicare Reform
By: Amitabh Chandra and Craig Garthwaite
In this article, we develop an economic framework for Medicare reform that highlights trade-offs that reform proposals should grapple with but often ignore. Central to our argument is a tension in administratively set prices, which may improve short-term efficiency but...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness Through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA
By: Matthew S. Johnson, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
We study how a regulator can best target inspections. Our case study is a US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program that randomly allocated some inspections. On average, each inspection averted 2.4 serious injuries (9%) over the next five years....
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- Summer 2019
- Article
The Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement
By: Jonas Heese
I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to experience SEC enforcement actions....
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- May 2019
- Case
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: 'One CMHC' and Version 3.0
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
When Evan Siddall was appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation (CMHC) five years earlier, he had embarked on a major organizational restructuring. Now he is spearheading another round of changes. CMHC has adopted an ambition vision and five year strategic...
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Keywords:
Government Organizations;
Culture;
Organizational Change And Transformation;
Human Resource Practices;
Future Of Work;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
government administration;
Restructuring;
Leadership;
Human Resources;
Talent And Talent Management;
Diversity;
Work-life Balance;
Financial Services Industry;
Public administration Industry;
Canada
- April 2019 (Revised April 2020)
- Case
Reaganomics: Impact and Legacy
By: Tom Nicholas, John Masko and Matthew G. Preble
During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan and his administration instituted several far-reaching economic policies that had both near- and long-term impacts on such aspects of the U.S. economy as monetary policy, inflation, the tax structure, and the role of...
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- 2019
- Working Paper
Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness
By: Frank Nagle
This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required government...
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Keywords:
Social Value;
Competitiveness;
government administration;
Technology;
Acquisition;
Policy;
Value
- 2019
- Working Paper
Biometric Tracking, Healthcare Provision, and Data Quality: Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control
By: Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade and Vincent Pons
Developing countries increasingly use biometric identification technology in hopes of improving the reliability of administrative information and delivering social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric tracking devices in...
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- December 2018 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Bord Bia: Strategically Growing Irish Exports
By: Jose B. Alvarez, Forest L. Reinhardt and Emer Moloney
Agriculture was Ireland’s largest indigenous industry. Its agri-food sector was export driven, with almost 90% of production exported. Bord Bia was the Irish government agency charged with the promotion, trade development, and marketing of the Irish food, drink, and...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Trends;
Disruption;
Communication Strategy;
Experience And Expertise;
Talent And Talent Management;
Public Sector;
Trade;
Education;
Food;
Geography;
Geographic Location;
Rural Scope;
Corporate governance;
government administration;
Information;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Marketing Channels;
Brands And Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Planning;
Business And government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Public Opinion;
Business Strategy;
Diversification;
Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Public administration Industry;
Retail Industry;
Republic Of Ireland;
United Kingdom;
Europe
- December 2018
- Case
Good Energy Group PLC
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
Founded at the end of 1999 by Juliet Davenport and Martin Edwards, Good Energy was the number-two renewable-energy seller in the United Kingdom at the end of 2016, supplying over 71,000 of the country’s 27 million households and small businesses with 100% renewable...
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Keywords:
Power/energy;
Green Energy;
Renewables;
Wind Power;
Electricity;
Power;
Strategy Development;
Electric Vehicles;
Customer Service;
Energy Policy;
Barriers To Entry;
Renewable Energy;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Business And government Relations;
Problems And Challenges;
Strategy;
Energy Industry;
United Kingdom
- December 2018 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
Creating the French Behavioral Insights Team
By: Michael Luca, Ariella Kristal and Emilie Billaud
This case explores how neuroscientist Mariam Chammat helped set up the first behavioral insights team at the center of the French government, and encouraged French administrations to innovate and create policy initiatives based on psychological theories of influence...
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- November 2018 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
The Rise of Populism and Italy's Electoral 'Tsunami'
By: Rawi Abdelal, Dante Roscini and Elena Corsi
Italy’s March 2018 elections led to a populist government that included the right-wing League and the anti-establishment 5 Star Movement. To respect their electoral promises, the two parties came up with a budget plan that provided for a public deficit at 2.4%, a...
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