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- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
presidential races. They studied the number of votes cast in each county for the candidates and used registered party affiliation at the county level to look at how campaign effects differed depending on the level of voter partisanship.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
greatest crisis since the Revolutionary War. The Democratic Party was so bitterly divided that it had been unable to even choose a candidate at its own convention, so the man the Republicans selected would almost certainly become... View Details
- 17 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
If Marketing Experts Ran Elections
voters" of U.S. politics. There are 5 structural reasons why this is the case. In U.S. general elections, voters usually see only 2 viable candidates on the ballot. That's one reason turnout is low. In any other product category,... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
to select a small subset of these individuals to be included in a canon of business leadership. The result was far different; we decided to study the entire database. Q: What criteria were used to select the leaders? A: The candidates... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.
many ways—starting with job listings. Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups The key to avoiding gender stereotyping in the hiring process lies in evaluating job candidates as a group,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
Andes took what Battilana and Dorado call a "socializability-focused" approach to hiring. Rather than looking for job candidates with experience in either social welfare work or finance, Los Andes hired people with essentially no work... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
operate with a very light touch. Theoretically, voters are supposed to be the ultimate check: If the public doesn’t like what’s going on, the party or elected officials get voted out. Yet even with some leadership churn, candidates from... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
panel data. Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates By: Pons, Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
as an important political contribution. In a study of 573 Democratic and Republican candidates in the 2004 congressional races, 338 corporate donors that gave at least $10,000 to closely watched races—those races with greater uncertainty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
campaigns drew two distinct groups of candidates. While the career advancement campaign attracted a group that had more qualifications and was more technically knowledgeable, the community-focused candidates were deemed more reliable—more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
specific searches. [See point on compensation in Financials, below] New to hiring? Practice interviewing candidates with investors or their associates before bringing actual candidates in for the real... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
based on the chemical similarity between new drug candidates and existing drugs. We show that drug candidates that we identify as ex-ante novel are riskier investments, in the sense that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
with Benro and any other potential partners. And I know I'd want to meet some candidates to lead a foreign sales office before I'd be comfortable going that route. But my real concern is more fundamental. Are we up to doing all this at... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 21 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Research Focuses on Gender Issues and Fixes
—should business leaders and policymakers do about the gender disparity? Research by Professor Boris Groysberg and colleagues shows that male and female board members have very different takes on the issue Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job View Details
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
campaign tactics they drop out. There are structural reasons why we have arrived at this state of affairs, including "winner-takes-all" elections, a two-party system that offers limited choice, and the system of campaign financing. The winner-takes-all system... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
of the paper’s authors. The main reason is that party and candidate positions on key issues subtly or not-so-subtly change from election to election in reaction to shifts in voter sentiment, undercutting the demographic trends. Political... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
the social fiction, as you call it, that there are very few qualified CEO candidates available? A: There are two big factors that have influenced this. The first is the rise of the institutional investor. Before this, managers were fairly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
learning to predict which candidates will do best in a particular position. The question is, how much should companies weight this information versus the more subjective impression gleaned from job interviews? “Essentially firms [are]... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
asking each candidate in turn whom they would recommend as CEO if the candidate and Jones were both killed in a plane crash. In a second round of interviews, he gave the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Academy for Women, Linda shows how academics can play a leading role in translating theory into practice. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53183 forthcoming Econometrica Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman