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Roscini January 2025 J 3.0 Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Vincent Pons Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing International Trade View Details
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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) Organizational Behavior Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Andy Pforzheimer Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry General Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 View Details
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Roscini January 2025 J 3.0 Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Vincent Pons Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing International Trade View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
effective way to mobilize nonvoters and persuade those who are undecided.” Getting the ground game right Candidates who accept the limited benefits of TV and shift resources to in-person outreach—whether...
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by Danielle Kost
- 27 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake
Pons conducted the study with Harvard doctoral students Sahil Chinoy and Martin Koenen; Jacob Brown, an assistant professor at Boston University; and View Details
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by Ben Rand
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
Election debates don’t sway voters enough
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects...
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by Michael Blanding
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
elections at all. We asked the study’s coauthor, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Vincent Pons, for some insights on the results. Pons has studied voter participation View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
Voters Often Opt for Candidate They Expect to Win
- 17 Feb 2022
- News
What Can Actually Convince Vaccine Skeptics to Get Their Shots
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55886 Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India By: Bossuroy, Thomas, Clara...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2017
- News
How big data helped secure Emmanuel Macron’s astounding victory
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
organizations like Braver Angels and the Constructive Dialogue Institute. Encourage leaders to model humility and openness to different viewpoints, setting a tone that discourages stereotyping View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- October 2023
- Article
Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates
By: Riako Granzier, Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud
Candidates’ placements in polls or past elections can be powerful coordination devices for both parties and voters. Using a regression discontinuity design in French elections, we show that candidates who place first by only a small margin in the first round are more...
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Strategic Voting;
Coordination;
Bandwagon Effect;
Regression Discontinuity Design;
French Elections;
Voting;
Political Elections;
Behavior;
France
Granzier, Riako, Vincent Pons, and Clémence Tricaud. "Coordination and Bandwagon Effects: How Past Rankings Shape the Behavior of Voters and Candidates." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 15, no. 4 (October 2023): 177–217.
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
explore the mechanisms underlying the relationship between managerial discretion and future performance. Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2016 By: Cantoni, Enrico, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2020
- News
On Track: Health Care, Patient Data, and Provider Performance
- 21 Jan 2016
- News
The perils of building democracy in Africa
- July 2021
- Article
Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy
By: Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons
We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, from canvassers supporting...
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Campaigns;
Candidates;
Elections;
Experiment;
Political Parties;
Turnout;
Voting Behavior;
Voting;
Political Elections;
Behavior;
Interpersonal Communication;
Italy
Cantoni, Enrico, and Vincent Pons. "Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy." Economics & Politics 33, no. 2 (July 2021): 379–402.