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- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
racist name was bad business. Still, FedEx did not act. Finally, in late June 2020, in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, Boston Common and a coalition of 86 other investors—among them Native American leaders—again asked FedEx, and...
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- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
likely voters. He built a coalition that energized young, first-time voters and registered thousands of previous non-voters. His organization encouraged early voting by Democrats to build well-publicized poll leads and to reduce the...
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by John Quelch
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
may not involve government. Value-net games have to do with cooperation and competition among businesses. 7 Public interest games pit coalitions of businesses, and even entire industries, against nonbusiness organizations like unions,...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
one year. Such a holiday would raise revenues and create jobs in the United States, according to the WIN America Campaign, a coalition of companies including Apple, Google, and Pfizer. But the last time such...
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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
integrated services. While Barge's new organization is not yet fully in place, he is determined to win the Bank of America business and moves quickly to hire a senior account manager and establish an organizational architecture that will...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
implement, near-term fixes could help, such as electing a small group of independent, centrist US senators to form a swing coalition that could align with either party on an issue. That would ensure that decisions satisfy more than just...
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
this loss of land, mining-related environmental degradation, and allegations of human rights abuses, a coalition of five indigenous communities forged an alliance with a group of domestic and international NGOs to build their case against...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Iraq from the perspective of an insider — The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. Published last spring, it’s a damning indictment not just of America’s many missteps, but also of the “utter mediocrity, incompetence,...
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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
Retirement, education, and medical care are focal in the minds of voters, so setting up tax-deferred savings programs around these issues is a political winner. Also, given the political power of universities, doctors, and asset management companies, it was perhaps...
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by Ann Cullen
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
also be necessary. Many companies assume that 50 percent, 100 percent, even 200 percent annual turnover in workers is “normal.” As a result, they fail to invest in programs such as upskilling that will dramatically improve their retention rate. The View Details
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by HBS News
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
parlayed his fame as a celebrity real estate developer into a winning pitch to voters as a Washington outsider. Emphasizing his decades of experience as a wheeler-dealer building luxury hotels, casinos, and golf courses around the world,...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
HBS and the Kennedy School of Government. Coup, who’s 41 and a numbers whiz, worked as the policy director for the anti-deficit Concord Coalition in Washington, D.C.; a strategic planner in the office of the American Stock Exchange’s...
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
the book Shared Sisterhood (with Dr. Tina Opie), published by Harvard Business Review Press. Stephanie Creary Assistant Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Stephanie J. Creary, PhD is assistant professor of management and faculty...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Defecting from his position as Rajapaksa’s minister of health, Sirisena’s unexpected win signaled a miraculously peaceful transition to a more democratic, just future. A coalition government formed, with...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
for urban light rail, airport and seaport connections, and longer-distance high-speed rail. Chicago has ambitious plans to ease rail congestion, use bus rapid transit, and increase bike-sharing. Public-private coalitions can set...
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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
sequencing, and coalition building certainly find application in multi-deal situations. Yet beyond such concepts, negotiation analysts can find special value in thinking in terms of campaigns, with multiple interdependent fronts, that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
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and tactics that can accelerate climate action. The course will explore business models and stakeholder coalitions that can produce solutions quickly while building markets and constituencies for change -- the “demand” side of climate...
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