elections - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

G19 + 1. For business leaders, the early optimism following Trump’s election that corporate taxes would be reduced, America’s infrastructure would be improved, and an improved healthcare system would be created has faded away. Many... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

policies, and identity politics. In San Jose, many women were elected to political positions. As state governments cut funding for schools, they turned to Silicon Valley firms for philanthropy, unintentionally handing control of public... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

providers feel comfortable about adopting your innovation? Can you make it the standard of care, meaning it is something doctors have to do? Can you get Medicare to pay for it? The MBA elective course I teach, Innovating in Health Care,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2005
News

Winning Legally

business objectives.” Before joining the HBS faculty in 2000, Bagley was a corporate securities partner in Bingham McCutchen LLP and a faculty member at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She teaches the MBA elective Legal Aspects... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

well when he was later elected student body president at the University of Washington. During his senior year, a faculty advisor encouraged him to apply to Harvard Business School, which Nielsen describes as a "life-changing experience"... View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

Cooper. “It helped me see the value of getting direct input from those on the line in order to put successful process improvements into effect.” First-year MBA students currently participate in eight simulations, and there are more than a dozen in the second-year View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

02 Mar 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents

House, the president has yet to fulfill some of his key campaign promises. Last year the US trade deficit that he vowed to reduce was the largest in nearly a decade. The imbalance with China alone hit a record $375 billion. With mid-term View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini; Steel; Manufacturing

03 Mar 2016
News

3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)

identities, so there’s a fractured sense of self out there. And the moral bar has lowered. We no longer trust the media to be a fair watchdog, nor our elected officials to act with integrity. Detecting deception is not a parlor trick;... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 2001
News

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk

will still be the print medium.” After Taiwan voters ended more than a half-century of one-party rule in presidential elections last year, Lai knew he had to move to the island. Taiwan, he says, “is the only democracy in Chinese culture.”... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

have their director candidates' names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident shareholders now must send out their own ballots); puts an end to staggered boards at all companies (boards traditionally elect one-third of... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

Equity Finance class, an advanced elective course offered in the Harvard Business School MBA elective curriculum. The structure of the book follows the timeline of a typical investment. Starting with deal... View Details

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

20 Dec 2018
Blog Post

A Time For Opportunity In Food and Agriculture

knowledge in courses like Prof. Forest Reinhardt’s Food & Agribusiness elective and by staying active in the FAW Club. Boston is a great place to explore the food industry ecosystem, Ledoux explained. “There's a very tight food... View Details

17 Oct 2022
Blog Post

6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

mentorship, and networking sessions. Second-year students can choose from over 15 elective courses with business and environment content, including courses such as Global Climate Change, Sustainable Investing, and Reimagining Capitalism.... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

2019) displayed both when she reached out to Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, in November 2018 to enlist his support for an idea. Inspired by what she learned in the second-year MBA elective... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

How I Got to Google

create the elective course Product Management 101. Update: A former business operations intern at the software company Autodesk, Soheili recently landed a product manager job at design firm Homepolish. SS: What are the characteristics of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1998
News

Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

registration/identity card system. DiCamillo notes with pride that last June's elections there were perhaps the "cleanest" in Mexican history, due to the minimization of fraud and vote tampering afforded by the highly secure Polaroid... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2000
News

Going Public: Herman I. Safin

political reforms of perestroika -- Safin's educational and professional background has prepared him well for a career in the global economy. The winner of the first public elections ever held at his high school, Safin served as student... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

State of Finance? What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

20 Jul 2017
News

Pushing the Next Generation Forward

other cities about HCZ’s approach, he stresses the importance of the long view. “Ending poverty is not something you’re going to see done within an election cycle,” he says. “It’s a lot of hard work that has to be carried out by committed... View Details