In Ports in a Storm, a team of Harvard Kennedy School scholars focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task—enhancing port security across the United States.
Book abstract: Recent events around the world, especially in the financial sector and with respect to government performance, have severely undermined people’s trust in both private organizations and
Is the Colombia prostitution scandal rocking the Secret Service an isolated incident?
I recently read a fascinating article in the Academy of Management Journal with the slightly daunting title “Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-Granted Rules of Self-Censorship at Work.” The article,
The 14 months since Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow have not been kind to those who yearn for a free Egypt.
Outsiders must be a little mystified as to why the Obama administration’s nomination of Jim Young Kim to lead the World Bank has kicked up so much dust in the development community.
Before the Internet age, when my car had some minor problem, I would choose a car shop at random and walk out with a whopping bill for some possibly unnecessary service.
I have long argued that the most underused tool in the government manager’s arsenal is appealing to what scholars call the public service motivation of many civil servants — the desire to help others,
“Becoming a leader” has become a mantra.
The frenzy of indignation surrounding President Obama’s open-mike chat with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has yet to subside, as his political opponents think they finally have a sliver of evidenc
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