American presidency - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

(again) American political leaders have repeatedly tried and failed to stem spiraling drug costs. US President Donald Trump said in May that he expected drugmakers to voluntarily cut their costs, providing... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

01 Apr 2001
News

Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

College, is also committed to public service. Re- cently she put her career on hold for six months to help make a difference in the lives of hundreds of South African children. She left her job as managing director at Abt Associates, South Africa, and spent a brief... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2007
News

Alumni Books

Thomas J. Bolam (MBA ’64) (McFarland & Co.) The Bolams examine 407 commercial films that include an American president as a character. They summarize each president’s administration and discuss its films,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

05 Jan 2022
News

Untapped Potential

hardware and software solutions. Ferguson has been in the water sector for more than a decade, including five years as the vice president of programming at Imagine H2O, an accelerator for water startups. In that role, he saw a growing... View Details

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

search processes that shape networks, cognition, and capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-106.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBanca Regional Andino: Facing the Globalization of Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 307-060 Three... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Harvard Business School

a former visiting lecturer at HBS, consulted on the endeavor. Its subsequent report was authored by AASU founding member E. Theodore Lewis Jr. (MBA '69). COGME funded the educational endeavors of nearly two thousand African Americans and... View Details

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

Moss: One of the things that a historical perspective helps make clear is that risk management has always been an essential function of government. From the very earliest days of the American Republic, government policymakers have... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

perspective, and helps stimulate ideas and connections that I wouldn’t have otherwise encountered. Three books on the meaning of dignity and loss and sacrifice that I return to often are When the Legends Die: The Timeless Coming-of-Age Story about a Native View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

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Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017

pressing challenges. Full Report Financial Statements AUG 2016 Global Alumni Leadership Summit Alumni of the School’s comprehensive leadership programs—the Advanced Management Program, General Management Program, Program for Leadership Development, and Owner/ View Details

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

section, "The shortage caught many Americans by surprise, but it followed decades of warnings from health experts who said the nation's system for vaccine supply and distribution was growing increasingly fragile." There have... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

industry and intelligence required of the American working man,” Davenport wrote, “perhaps our students could learn to look upon the working man with some degree of respect and sympathetic consideration.” This was an archive that Ayres... View Details

29 Jan 2019
News

Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

play’s director (and Harvard College alumna), Diane Paulus, the Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) at Harvard University. HBSWANY co-vice president of programming, Kathy Murray (AMP... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

It's no coincidence that the new book America the Principled is coming out just as the U.S. presidential election gets into full swing, says its author, Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. She wants us all to rethink the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

Political polarization has seeped so deeply into US society that it shapes who Americans befriend, date, and marry, where they live, raise their families, and retire—and how they run their businesses. A recent paper illustrates how the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

involved in numerous regional and national health policy initiatives, including the American Joint Replacement Registry, where he serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors; the Yale Center for Outcomes Research & Evaluation (CORE)... View Details

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

an overview of the path that C. R. Smith pursued to build American Airlines into one of the largest airlines in the world in the 20th century. Over the course of his 30-year tenure as president of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Mar 2021
News

Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Island Promise. The state legislature approved it in 2017, making Rhode Island one of some 20 states that have adopted similar programs. Sara Enright (MBA 2004), vice president of student affairs and chief outcomes officer at the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2008
News

Back to the Future

Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

long-term study. Now owned by Mannesmann, the factory itself still manufactures large-diameter pipes today. Before the 1920s, German firms were often messier, more haphazard, less decentralized than many American corporations. However,... View Details