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- 2021
- Book
We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems
By: Mitchell Weiss
The huge public challenges we face are daunting. At the same time, many of us have come to accept the notion that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges—it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Not so. Entrepreneurial savvy in government is growing,...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
government Administration;
government And politics;
Technological Innovation;
Problems And Challenges;
Innovation Leadership;
Public Administration Industry;
Technology Industry
Weiss, Mitchell. We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
- 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
- December 2020
- Article
Multinational Firms and the Politics of International Trade in Multidisciplinary Perspective
By: Grace A. Ballor and Aydin B. Yildirim
From the technical analyses of wide ranges of scholars to the public discourse backlashes against globalization, there is a huge volume of work historicizing, quantifying, and problematizing the complex role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in international trade....
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Keywords:
Multinational Corporations;
International Trade;
Big Business;
Economic Governance;
Global Value Chains;
Trade Policy;
Corporate Regulation;
Multinational Firms And Management;
Trade;
Policy;
governance;
Globalization
Ballor, Grace A., and Aydin B. Yildirim. "Multinational Firms and the Politics of International Trade in Multidisciplinary Perspective." Special Issue on Multinational Corporations and the Politics of International Trade. Business and Politics 22, no. 4 (December 2020): 573–586.
- November 12, 2020
- Article
What We Can Learn About Unity from Hostile Takeovers
In the wake of the recent election, the United States faces a fraught, difficult transfer of power. What we know about hostile takeovers in business can provide help in finding a path forward. Leaders on the winning side of the more successful acquisitions emphasized...
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "What We Can Learn About Unity from Hostile Takeovers." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (November 12, 2020).
- November 2020
- Teaching Note
Unrest in Chile
By: Vincent Pons, John Masko, Rafael Di Tella and William Mullins
In 2020, Chileans would head to the ballot box to decide their country’s future. Many international observers credited Chile’s decades of neoliberal governance with turning the country into Latin America’s “Tiger,” a prosperous, diversified economy on its way to...
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- October 2020
- Case
Surviving Venezuela's Hyperinflation: Automercados Plaza's
By: Alberto Cavallo, Mariana Cal and Carla Larangeira
Under the rule of presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela experienced one of the worst economic and political meltdowns in modern history, culminating with a massive hyperinflation. Remarkably, during this dramatic times Automercados Plaza's had grown to...
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Keywords:
Hyperinflation;
Populism;
Inflation And Deflation;
Macroeconomics;
Management;
Strategy;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Business And government Relations;
Retail Industry;
South America;
Venezuela
Cavallo, Alberto, Mariana Cal, and Carla Larangeira. "Surviving Venezuela's Hyperinflation: Automercados Plaza's." Harvard Business School Case 721-014, October 2020.
- 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
Desai, Mihir A., Suzanne Antoniou, and Leanne Fan. "The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations." Harvard Business School Case 221-039, October 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
- October 2020
- Case
When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s
By: Tom Nicholas and Christian Godwin
During the early 1980s, young gay men in urban centers such as San Francisco and New York City began contracting a mysterious illness that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. A diagnosis meant almost certain death, with a less than 1% survival rate. Conflicting...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Policy;
government And politics;
Health;
History;
Rights;
Media;
Organizations;
Business And Community Relations;
Religion;
Social Psychology;
Identity;
Prejudice And Bias;
Social Issues;
Public Opinion;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Health Industry;
Journalism And News Industry;
Media And Broadcasting Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
- October 2020
- Case
Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress
By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner
In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be...
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- August 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
India 2020 – Governance and Growth
In January 2012, the government of India faced significant challenges to achieving three key objectives of high growth, inclusive development, and improved governance. The economy was experiencing a growth slowdown, persistently high inflation, and infrastructure and...
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- August 2020
- Article
Strategies for Managing the Privacy Landscape
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
Firms use consumer personal information to improve their products and services. Personal information is open to misuse, however, and when exploited for undesired or unexpected purposes reduces consumer’s trust in the firm and their willingness to provide personal...
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Keywords:
Consumer Privacy;
Privacy Threats;
Strategy Framework;
Strategy Interactions;
Customers;
Information;
Management;
Strategy;
Technology Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane. "Strategies for Managing the Privacy Landscape." Long Range Planning 53, no. 4 (August 2020).
- 2020
- Working Paper
Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization
By: Rawi Abdelal
Every order is a bargain with disappointments and trade-offs. Thus is every order an unstable equilibrium. The first era of globalization, circa 1870–1914, created both international prosperity and domestic instability. That instability was fully realized during the...
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Keywords:
Centrism;
Populism;
Globalization;
History;
Balance And Stability;
Economic Systems;
government And politics;
Learning
Abdelal, Rawi. "Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-008, July 2020.
- June 18, 2020
- Article
What CEOs Still Haven't Said about Race and Policing
By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
While many CEOs have spoken out to share their thoughts on race and police misconduct in America, they have yet to advocate for policy solutions for police reform, focusing instead on their own corporate and personal values. But lasting change must also involve ...
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Keywords:
Activism;
Ceo;
Political Issues;
Political Leadership;
Racial Tensions;
Racism;
Leadership;
Race;
Communication;
government And politics;
Law;
Organizational Culture;
United States
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "What CEOs Still Haven't Said about Race and Policing." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 18, 2020).
- June 2020
- Case
Recovering Trust After Corporate Misconduct at Wells Fargo
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Jonah S. Goldberg
The case describes widespread misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank in the period leading up to 2017 and the company’s subsequent attempts to improve internal controls, company culture, and corporate governance. The case examines the potential causes of large scale...
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Keywords:
Corporate Misconduct;
Internal Controls;
Banks And Banking;
Crime And Corruption;
Corporate governance;
Organizational Culture;
governance Compliance;
Management Systems;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Performance Improvement;
governing And Advisory Boards
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Jonah S. Goldberg. "Recovering Trust After Corporate Misconduct at Wells Fargo." Harvard Business School Case 120-128, June 2020.
- June 2020
- Article
Informing Dissent
By: Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
The first part of this commentary argues that because the production of dissent depends on the availability of information, greater attention should focus on government restrictions on access to official information. At no time is this more important than when...
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Keywords:
Dissent;
Information Monopoly;
Economics Of Speech;
Freedom Of Information Act (foia);
Self-censorship;
Social Pressure;
Information;
government And politics;
Spoken Communication;
Society
Greene, Hillary, and Dennis Yao. "Informing Dissent." Law, Culture and the Humanities 16, no. 2 (June 2020): 200–212.
- May 2020 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)
By: Alberto Cavallo and Christian Godwin
In April 2020, the world struggled to contain the exponential escalation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of countries had imposed restrictions on travel, work, and social gatherings. A large share of the global population was under lockdowns and...
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Keywords:
Demand And Consumers;
Supply And Industry;
Finance;
Central Banking;
Financial Markets;
International Finance;
Globalization;
government And politics;
Health Pandemics;
Decision Making;
Macroeconomics;
Employment;
Crisis Management;
Supply Chain;
Risk And Uncertainty;
Air Transportation Industry;
Banking Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Employment Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Food And Beverage Industry;
Health Industry;
Medical Devices And Supplies Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Retail Industry;
Service Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Travel Industry;
Asia;
China;
Europe;
Latin America;
Africa;
United States
Cavallo, Alberto, and Christian Godwin. "The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 720-031, May 2020. (Revised June 2020.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)
By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act intensified debates over the role of government in the distribution of healthcare. A nationally-representative sample of Americans reported their estimated and ideal distributions of healthcare (unmet need for...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Mortality;
Inequality;
Justice;
Equity;
Health;
Health Care And Treatment;
Equality And Inequality;
Fairness;
Public Opinion;
United States
Kiatpongsan, Sorapop, and Michael I. Norton. "Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-114, April 2020.
- 2020
- Working Paper
HBS COVID-19 Global Policy Tracker
By: Alberto Cavallo and Tannya Cai
The HBS COVID-19 Global Policy Tracker is an initiative by the Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) unit at Harvard Business School (HBS) to collect and standardize economic policies implemented as a response to the coronavirus pandemic around the...
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Cavallo, Alberto, and Tannya Cai. "HBS COVID-19 Global Policy Tracker." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-110, April 2020. (Available at www.globalpolicytracker.com.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Issue Salience and Political Stereotypes
By: Pedro Bordalo, Marco Tabellini and David Yang
U.S. voters exaggerate the differences in attitudes held by Republicans and Democrats on a range of socioeconomic and political issues, and higher perceived polarization is associated with greater political engagement and affective polarization. In this paper, we...
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