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- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508038 Ruling the Modern Corporation: The Debate over Limited Liability in Massachusetts Harvard Business School Case 708-016 In 1830, Governor Levi Lincoln, Jr. urged the...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
especially those that were quite loose before the pandemic (for example, southern Europe). "New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has made frequent and effective use of metaphors in the ways that he communicates about COVID-19." Yet, research...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
than prospective, divisive rather than inclusive. It works mostly for older white men who are no longer enjoying the inside track in a more equal society. The Trump campaign m.o. is reminiscent of the description of Ed King's successful 1978 campaign against then...
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- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from...
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- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
Fidelity Bank Plc., for leadership in general management. Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, Nigeria, presided over the annual event, which brought together more than 200 HBS alumni and friends to review the year and...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Cunningham, Ohio Governor John Kasich asked him to work with his Cabinet members to develop specific ways to help Ohio increase its shared prosperity. And at the behest of Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, he is helping to develop a...
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- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”...
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Margie Kelley
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Critics of such a measure, most on the Republican side of the aisle, argue that Democratic governors and municipal leaders have mismanaged state and local budgets. Green contends that his research offers evidence that a government’s level...
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by Kristen Senz
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
theoretical model of short-termism developed by Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein, who was recently named to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "One thing that comes out of Stein's theoretical work is that...
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by Maggie Starvish
- Web
Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
that hadn't even existed. And I was there for three years. Then Chuck Robb was elected governor of Virginia and somebody put my name in the hat, and I interviewed with him and became his cabinet secretary for economic development and...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Scharfman’s case, that help came recently in the form of $2.8 million in public funds to upgrade the municipal treatment plant both for Reeseville’s purposes and to treat Specialty Cheese’s effluent. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker...
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- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/417023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 418-034 Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago (Abridged) In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, considered his future in Chicago politics. With an unpopular View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
than six years as governor and was boosted by family connections. Mukunda's findings support the LFT theory that unfiltered presidents often turn up at the high and low ends—four of the five highest ranked presidents and four of the five...
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by Kim Girard
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
workers, as well as chastising former Republican governors Indiana’s Mike Pence (now vice president) and North Carolina’s Pat McCrory for enacting anti-LGBT policies in their states. In the last four months, US hiring has dropped to a...
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by Bill George
- 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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- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Britain’s perceived glory days in the nineteenth century, when the country was the economic hub of the world. The Governor of the Bank of England, a legion of economists, and scores of other experts have pointed to the economic risks,...
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 22 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, and John Lynch, later Governor of New Hampshire) had a bright idea. Our friends in large business firms seemed to know how to recruit minority summer interns with the potential for longer-term employment. Why not...
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All Industries
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
of the recommended measures and sent the bill to the Governor for his signature. The life insurance industry objected, however, claiming that some of the new rules would reduce consumer choice and unnecessarily lower returns on company...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
Economic Development under Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. “I had learned from [HBS professor] Michael Porter about the synergy that comes from establishing industry clusters, and that became our focus. We became metrics driven and also...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Obama, by contrast, is the most liberal U.S. senator. When it comes to the presidential arena, of course, HBS alumni are well-represented in the Republican Party, including President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) and former Massachusetts View Details