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      • March 2021
      • Case

      Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka

      By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
      In February 2018, Nayana Mawilmada (Nayana), investment head for the Sri Lankan government’s ambitious $40 billion Megapolis project, must weigh an attractive job offer to move from the public sector to the private sector. A massive government project aimed at...  View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Making; Public Sector; Experience And Expertise; Strategic Planning; Work-life Balance; Transportation; Risk And Uncertainty; Power And Influence; Personal Development And Career; Real Estate Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Boston; Virginia; United States
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      Margolis, Joshua D., and Mahima Rao-Kachroo. "Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka." Harvard Business School Case 421-065, March 2021.
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Effects of Local Government Financial Distress: Evidence from Toxic Loans

      By: Boris Vallée and Julien Sauvagnat
      We examine the response from both local governments and their voters to a sudden increase in public debt burden. We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the ex post cost of toxic loans, a notorious financial innovation adopted by a large number of local governments....  View Details
      Keywords: Public Debt; Public Investments; Political Contestation; Toxic Loans; Borrowing And Debt; Investment; Public Sector; Government And Politics; Local Range; Financing And Loans
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      Vallée, Boris, and Julien Sauvagnat. "The Effects of Local Government Financial Distress: Evidence from Toxic Loans." Working Paper, February 2021.
      • 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,...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Government And Politics; Technological Innovation; Problems And Challenges; Innovation Leadership; Public Administration Industry; Technology Industry
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      Weiss, Mitchell. We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
      • November 2019
      • Teaching Note

      Hacking Heroin

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
      This teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on "ideas." The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Invention; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah Mehta. "Hacking Heroin." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-063, November 2019.
      • 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...  View Details
      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
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      Alvarez, Jose B., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Emer Moloney. "Bord Bia: Strategically Growing Irish Exports." Harvard Business School Case 519-043, December 2018. (Revised May 2019.)
      • October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
      • Case

      Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

      By: Leslie K. John, Mitchell Weiss and Julia Kelley
      Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

      By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Civictech; Smart Cities; City Innovation; Government Innovation; Privacy; Sidewalk Labs; Dan Doctoroff; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Consumer Behavior; Governance; Business And Government Relations; Innovation And Invention; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry; Real Estate Industry; Canada
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      John, Leslie K., Mitchell Weiss, and Julia Kelley. "Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up." Harvard Business School Case 819-024, October 2018. (Revised July 2019.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
      • October 2018 (Revised September 2020)
      • Case

      Testing Autonomy in Pittsburgh

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Brittany Urick
      Pittsburgh’s mayor had been among the first to welcome self-driving vehicles but was now one of many needing to react after a pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous Uber in Arizona. He had originally preferred to roll out “the red carpet” instead of the “red...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Government Innovation; Government Experimentation; Autonomous Vehicles; Mayor; Mayor Peduto; Cities; Mobility; Automation; Uber; Argo Ai; Aurora Innovation; Aptiv; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Innovation And Invention; Transportation; City; Safety; Business And Government Relations; Transportation Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Brittany Urick. "Testing Autonomy in Pittsburgh." Harvard Business School Case 819-059, October 2018. (Revised September 2020.)
      • October 2018
      • Case

      Shield AI

      By: Mitchell Weiss and A.J. Steinlage
      Shield AI’s quadcopter – with no pilot and no flight plan – could clear a building and outpace human warfighters by almost five minutes. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous robots...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Artificial Intelligence; Ai; Entrepreneurial Sales; Government; Defense; Shield Ai; Brandon Tseng; Ryan Tseng; Andrew Reiter; Robots; Robotics; Uav; Uavs; Government Sales; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Sales; Government Administration; National Security; Business And Government Relations; Technology Industry; United States
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and A.J. Steinlage. "Shield AI." Harvard Business School Case 819-062, October 2018.
      • July 2018 (Revised December 2018)
      • Case

      SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command

      By: Herman Leonard, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman
      James “Hondo” Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. The questions had a common theme: how...  View Details
      Keywords: James Geurts; Innovation; Public Entrepreneurship; Open Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Contests; Prototyping; Sofwerx; Special Operations; Socom; Govtech; Procurement; Far; Ez-fly; Navy; Department Of Defense; Innovation And Invention; Innovation And Management; Innovation Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Acquisition; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      Leonard, Herman, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command." Harvard Business School Case 819-004, July 2018. (Revised December 2018.)
      • May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
      • Case

      Urban Us

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Phoebe Peronto
      Shaun Abrahamson and Stonly Baptiste aimed to invest in what they called "urbantech superheroes." At Urban Us, the seed-stage urban technology-focused venture capital firm the two started in 2012, they looked for startups innovating around the future of cities. By...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Urbantech; Seed Investing; Urban Us; Shaun Abrahamson; Stonly Baptiste; Remix; One Concern; Starcity; Seamlessdocs; Venture Capital; Public Sector; City; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Miami; San Francisco; New York (city, Ny)
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Phoebe Peronto. "Urban Us." Harvard Business School Case 818-115, May 2018. (Revised October 2018.)
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

      By: Katharina Janke, Carol Propper and Raffaella Sadun
      Abstract Governments worldwide have sought to reform the delivery of public services by mimicking private sector governance models that grant CEOs greater autonomy and give them responsibility for meeting key government targets. We examine the effectiveness of this...  View Details
      Keywords: Ceos; Management; Performance; Public Sector; Measurement And Metrics; Health Industry
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      Janke, Katharina, Carol Propper, and Raffaella Sadun. "The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-075, March 2018. (Revised September 2020.)
      • October 2017 (Revised November 2017)
      • Case

      NYC311

      By: Constantine E. Kontokosta, Mitchell Weiss, Christine Snively and Sarah Gulick
      Joe Morrisroe, executive director for NYC311, had some gut instincts but no definitive answer to the question he was just asked by one of the mayor’s deputies: “Are some communities being underserved by 311? How do we know we are hearing from the right people?” Founded...  View Details
      Keywords: New York City; Nyc; 311; Nyc311; Big Data; Equal Access; Bias; Data Analysis; Public Entrepreneurship; Urban Informatics; Predictive Analytics; Chief Data Officer; Data Analytics; Cities; City Leadership; Data And Data Sets; Analysis; Prejudice And Bias; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; City; Public Administration Industry; New York (city, Ny)
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      Kontokosta, Constantine E., Mitchell Weiss, Christine Snively, and Sarah Gulick. "NYC311." Harvard Business School Case 818-056, October 2017. (Revised November 2017.)
      • October 2017 (Revised January 2018)
      • Case

      Bitfury: Blockchain for Government

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Elena Corsi
      In the Republic of Georgia, legend had it their land was a precious gift from God he had intended to keep for his mother. But over time, the land had been under intermittent threat from without and within. In 2017, the Bitfury Group, which Valery Vavilov had...  View Details
      Keywords: Blockchain; Bitcoin; Cryptocurrency; Public Entrepreneurship; Public Innovation; Government Innovation; Property Rights; Property Registry; Technology Strategy; Distributed Networks; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Innovation And Invention; Technology Adoption; Business And Government Relations; Technology Industry; Real Estate Industry; Public Administration Industry; Georgia (nation, Asia); Tbilisi
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Elena Corsi. "Bitfury: Blockchain for Government." Harvard Business School Case 818-031, October 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
      • September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
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      Public Entrepreneurs? Picking a Path

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Matthew Segneri
      Direct entry into government remained an uncommon post-HBS path, with only 1%–2% of recent classes going directly into the public sector. But, for public-minded MBAs, government wasn’t the sole province for public problem-solving. MBAs could join or launch companies...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Careers; Tri-sector Athlete; Job Searching; Government Innovation; Govtech; Civictech; Civic Technology; Civic Innovation; Government Technology; Mba Class Of 2017; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Job Search; Jobs And Positions; Innovation Leadership; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Matthew Segneri. "Public Entrepreneurs? Picking a Path." Harvard Business School Case 818-005, September 2017. (Revised January 2019.)
      • August 2017
      • Teaching Note

      Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal

      By: Boris Vallee, Patrick Augustin and Philippe Rich
      This case explores a complex swap transaction implemented by Metro do Porto in 2007. It represents an opportunity to study fixed income derivative instruments, such as plain-vanilla swaps and structured swaps, as well as understand the opportunities and challenges of...  View Details
      Keywords: Swaps; Public Finance; Structured Finance; Credit Derivatives And Swaps; Public Sector; Transportation Industry; Rail Industry; Portugal
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      Vallee, Boris, Patrick Augustin, and Philippe Rich. "Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 218-018, August 2017.
      • August 2017
      • Case

      Spaceport America, Public Sector Risk-taking, and Political Accountability

      By: Matthew Weinzierl and Angela Acocella
      Sitting quietly in the heart of the New Mexico desert in the summer of 2014, Spaceport America (SA) housed little of the activity its supporters anticipated when opening its hangar doors in 2011. Despite $1 million in annual rent from Virgin Galactic, British...  View Details
      Keywords: Risk And Uncertainty; Public Sector; Business And Government Relations; Aerospace Industry; New Mexico
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      Weinzierl, Matthew, and Angela Acocella. "Spaceport America, Public Sector Risk-taking, and Political Accountability." Harvard Business School Case 718-015, August 2017.
      • August 2017
      • Case

      Hacking Heroin

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
      "Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said....  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Invention; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah Mehta. "Hacking Heroin." Harvard Business School Case 818-010, August 2017.
      • July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
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      Propel

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
      In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; Food Stamps; Ebt; Mobile App; User Research; Financial Services Referrals; Grocery Marketing; Customer Discovery; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Business Model; Research; Social Enterprise; Poverty; Welfare; Mobile Technology; Software; Technology Industry; United States
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah McAra. "Propel." Harvard Business School Case 818-008, July 2017. (Revised November 2017.)
      • July 2017 (Revised July 2020)
      • Course Overview Note

      Public Entrepreneurship

      By: Mitchell Weiss
      This course is rooted in the belief that there is a large opportunity for creating value and solving large public problems if there are more inventors and builders inside government and more inventors and builders outside government, building for it. The course was...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Invention; Innovation Leadership; Government Administration; Business And Government Relations
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      Weiss, Mitchell. "Public Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 818-006, July 2017. (Revised July 2020.)
      • June 2017
      • Case

      Waze Connected Citizens Program

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Alissa Davies
      Di-Ann Eisnor, Director of Growth at Waze, founded the company’s Connected Citizens Program (CCP), a data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data. Since 2015, her program had enabled officials in Kentucky and elsewhere to...  View Details
      Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Waze; Public-private Partnerships; Scaling Technology Ventures; Di-ann Eisnor; Paige Fitzgerald; Noam Bardin; Ehud Shabtai; Cities; Transportation; Traffic; Crowdsourcing; Api; Scaling Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Information Technology; Transportation; Growth Management; Transportation Industry; Israel; Indonesia; United States; Brazil; Los Angeles; Kentucky
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Alissa Davies. "Waze Connected Citizens Program." Harvard Business School Case 817-035, June 2017.
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