elections - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

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

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

employee elected body) that my intentions were neither destructive nor judgmental. The labor council granted me access to its list of retirees, and, to this day, I cannot thank them enough. Q: What was the reception you got while... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

firms ushered in increasingly accommodating policies to attract and retain staff. Turnover rates steadily decreased, while compensation expectations increased. This has fundamentally challenged the long-standing “up or out” model: As fewer associates have left and... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

Brooks immersed herself in HBS, resurrecting the inactive role of historian of the African-American Student Union. She also joined the Harbus Foundation and the Management Consulting and Social Enterprise clubs. She also was elected to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2013
News

A Healthy Profit

influence HBS and HSPH curricula. Chu and Bloom, for instance, lead an HBS-HSPH elective on social-impact investment that includes the Antares field studies, cotaught with HBS associate professor Shawn Cole and HBS professor Kash Rangan.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

for somebody like me, I could see people not being wild about Hillary Clinton. Maybe she wasn't warm enough. People talked a lot about oh, the only time I really saw her as warm and authentic was that night in New Hampshire in the previous View Details

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Speaker Adán Acevedo

financial, social, and academic support to students in underserved communities across the United States. All this work, says Acevedo, is about empowering people. “What was crystallized for me in this Elective Curriculum year is that in... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

systems, focuses on organizations in transition and is developing an elective called Compensation, Control, and Internal Governance. A closer look at CCMO reveals the unit's penchant for breaking new ground in research and pedagogy.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jan 2012
News

Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

Alto house where he and Cathie have lived since 1967. “Helping our community is important to us.” Johnson was an elected trustee of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District for 12 years. It’s a rare person who can talk about... View Details

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

This speaks to a very large leaky pipe, into which the government is pouring more resources in the futile hope that the pipe repairs itself. The fear is that this is an election sop, before next year's national elections, in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

01 Aug 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

graduates indicated a vast disconnect between the School's resources and the perceptions of students and recent alumni. The committee proposes instituting targeted presentations by senior faculty to current students, the election of... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

11 Mar 2011
News

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

Keywords: Professors Deepak Malhotra, Noel Maurer, Magnus Thor Torfason, and Tarun Khanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

25 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

Matter Even When They Shouldn't: Bandwagon Effects in Two-Round Elections By: Pons, Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—To predict others’ behavior and make their own choices, voters and candidates can rely on information provided by... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Ph.D. in biology and a former biology professor at Harvard, has also had a 25-year career in drug development and biotech companies, leading both R&D and business functions. She teaches the MBA elective Inventing Breakthroughs and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

opportunity to attend Professor Richard Tedlow's elective class, "The Coming of Managerial Capitalism." Anyone who has attended this class would, I think, agree that it is the kind of classroom experience that stays in your... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

confirm our results that states with commodities that had higher price increases had lower risk premia. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-027.pdf Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606118 Ghana: National Economic Strategy Harvard Business School Case 706-497 Set in the year 2001, as President John Kufuor contemplates a national economic strategy following his View Details