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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
Subjects related to globalization and finance top the list of courses added this year to the elective curriculum for second-year MBA students. Notably, seven of the twelve new offerings are half-courses that require only fifteen sessions...
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curriculum
- October 2022 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
The Commission on Presidential Debates
By: Boris Groysberg, Alexis Lefort, Kerry Herman and Joshua Groysberg
The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has organized the presidential and vice-presidential debates in the United States since 1988. In the spring of 2022, the Republican National Committee threatened to bar their nominees from participating in any CPD-sponsored...
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Groysberg, Boris, Alexis Lefort, Kerry Herman, and Joshua Groysberg. "The Commission on Presidential Debates." Harvard Business School Case 423-032, October 2022. (Revised November 2022.)
- 1991
- Chapter
Reactions to Political Advertising Depend on the Nature of the Voter-Candidate Bond
By: J. A. Deighton, L. F. Alwitt and J. Grimm
- 29 Sep 2013
- News
California's Rising Latina Political Star
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
votes cast in order to be elected. Contrast that, these activists warn, with the prevailing procedure that puts a candidate on a board with just a plurality of votes. They claim that under these conditions, directors can be elected with...
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by Joseph Hinsey
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights
A student team pitches its venture to a panel of instructors, entrepreneurs, and investors on the final day of the Startup Bootcamp program. (photo by Susan Young) MBA Program Startup Bootcamp This is the first of a new January Wintersession being offered as an View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers
C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), is the only HBS alumnus among the eight candidates running in this year's election for the Harvard University Board of Overseers. Spangler, a prominent leader in both business and higher education,...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 2023
- Working Paper
Change We Can’t Believe In: Distrust of Political Converts
By: Julian J. Zlatev, Amos Schurr and Nir Halevy
We propose and test three hypotheses regarding how people respond to political converts— individuals who switch their voting from one political party to another. Across two experiments, using behavioral and attitudinal measures of trust in two different countries, we...
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Zlatev, Julian J., Amos Schurr, and Nir Halevy. "Change We Can’t Believe In: Distrust of Political Converts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-049, February 2023.
- August 2021
- Article
Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya
By: Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri
Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted participation but also decreased trust in electoral...
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Political Participation;
Electoral Institutions;
Field Experiment;
Voting;
Political Elections;
Behavior;
Trust
Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri. "Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya." Economic Journal 131, no. 638 (August 2021): 2585–2612.
- October 2008 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Obama versus Clinton: The YouTube Primary
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
What was the role of the Internet in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination between Senators Obama and Clinton? How does the role change in the shift from the Primary to the National election? The case examines media and content choices by each...
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Political Elections;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Marketing Channels;
Media;
Internet;
United States
Deighton, John A., and Leora Kornfeld. "Obama versus Clinton: The YouTube Primary." Harvard Business School Case 509-032, October 2008. (Revised November 2009.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya
By: Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri
Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text messages intended to mobilize voters boosted participation but also decreased trust in electoral...
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Keywords:
Political Participation;
Electoral Institutions;
Field Experiment;
Voting;
Political Elections;
Behavior;
Trust;
Kenya
Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri. "Voter Mobilization and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya." Working Paper. (Economic Journal 131, no. 638 (August 2021): 2585-2612.)
- 14 May 2014
- News
Is Bruce Rauner the Next Mitt Romney?
- 16 Apr 2014
- News
Out of Backroom, Into Poll Ring
Joseph D. Williams
Williams entered Warner-Lambert through a merger with Parke-Davis, where he was President and CEO. When elected president of Warner-Lambert, and later as chairman and CEO, he invested heavily in research. This investment helped...
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Personal Care & Home Products
Amos L. Beaty
In 1907, Beaty became the attorney for Texaco, and was able to secure new laws, which smoothed the way for the company’s entry into the Oklahoma oil fields. In 1920, Beaty was elected president of the company. During his presidency, Beaty...
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Utilities & Energy
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is not. In their case about the...
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- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
industrial complex that limits healthy competition in order to promote its continued growth and caters to the power and profit-driven demands of its best customers instead of the broader public interest. During the 2016 election cycle,...
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
The Three HBS Alumni “Defining the 2016 Campaign”
As anyone with a Twitter account can tell you, the marriage of tech and politics is growing ever tighter. The three HBS alumni who appear on WIRED’s recent “20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign” are good examples of how Washington is turning to Silicon Valley...
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Morgan G. Bulkeley
In 1879, Bulkeley was elected the third president in the history of Aetna Life Insurance, a position he held until his death. Under Bulkeley’s leadership, Aetna’s assets grew from $25 million in 1879 to over $200 million in 1922, and the...
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Finance
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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
2018 New MBA Elective Investing for Impact is introduced. 2017 New Executive Education program Strategic Nonprofit Management - India is introduced. Loan assistance program expanded to include alumni working at for-profit social...
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