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14 May 2014
News

Is Bruce Rauner the Next Mitt Romney?

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

16 Apr 2014
News

Out of Backroom, Into Poll Ring

01 Sep 2016
Blog Post

Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

HBS I am Head Senator of the Student Association. The Senate is in charge of defining the structure of section leadership –for example, each section has a president and more than ten elected positions to support social and academic... View Details

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

a neighbor, Goldberg's father insisted that his only son go east to Harvard, where he majored in government and minored in economics. Elected first marshal of the Class of 1948 (an honor he reprised as chief marshal of his 25th Reunion),... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Mar 2009
News

Having a Ball

STAFFORD: Planning a memorable party, with help from his son, Earl Jr., and wife, Amanda. Tracy A. Woodward/Washington Post Long before the November election, sensing that something historic was in the offing, Earl Stafford (OPM 26, 1998) decided that wounded veterans,... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

June 2009
Teaching Note

The Rise of President Barack Hussein Obama (TN)

By: David A. Thomas, Laura Morgan Roberts and Stephanie Creary

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Keywords: Value; Political Elections; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; United States

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01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

built,” she stresses. Currently at work on a book based on her globalization study, Neeley teaches several Executive Education offerings and the MBA elective Leading Teams in a Global Economy. Her case study “Language and Globalization:... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Wasserman Wins Award

Associate Professor Noam Wasserman has won the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management in recognition of his second-year MBA elective course Founders’ Dilemmas. Based on a decade of research, the... View Details

Keywords: awards

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,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

institutions in the financial world. Robert Merton's many honors include acknowledgments by the broader and more distant academic and scientific communities. In addition to being a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he was View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

In My Humble Opinion: Priya Paul (OPM 28, 1999)

2014: The Election That Changed India, by Rajdeep Sardesai. Favorite US hotels: The NoMad and the Standard on the High Line in New York; the Delano in Miami. Any property owned by Aman Resorts. Perk of the job: “I’m a little bit of a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

21 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023

and take the risks you need to take to save the things that can still be saved,” said Potts. Potts’s lecture capped the first day of Accelerating Climate Solutions, a weeklong intensive elective course at HBS (a Short Intensive Program,... View Details

Robert F. Dee

During his CEO tenure, Dee achieved an 800% increase in revenues (over $3 billion) – moving SmithKline into the upper echelons of major pharmaceutical organizations. He introduced the anti-ulcer medication, Tagamet, which became the largest selling prescription drug in... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

2008
Working Paper

Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani

We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Political Elections; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Societal Protocols; India

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19 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

“Allowing owners to have more power and influence in corporate board elections seems to be valuable.” In August 2010, the US Securities and Exchange Commission passed Rule 14a-11, also known as the shareholder proxy access rule, which... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Caitlin Reimers Brumme Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 4 Results Reflecting on the Inaugural Investing for Impact Elective Course Caitlin Reimers Brumme... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS

China is not yet ready, he said, for national elections (although 680,000 villages have elected local officials), the country’s goal is that “the people supervise the work of the government.” China is... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

19 Jan 2016
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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... View Details

Joseph A. Martino

Starting with the company as a 16 year old office boy, Martino went on to transform National Lead into one of the country’s leading industrial producers of lead products and paints. During his tenure as CEO, National Lead was among the top 50 U. S. firms in terms of... View Details

Keywords: Metals

Levels of Meaning

In my first year at HBS, a lot of the emphasis was on the Required Curriculum (RC), with courses like accounting, marketing, finance, strategy, and operations. I assumed the Elective Curriculum (EC) year would be more of that type of... View Details

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