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- 04 Oct 2022
- What Do You Think?
Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?
that such trade might alter Chinese interest in democracy and capitalism. That leads to a conclusion that “we need to start quickly weaning ourselves off of the products and resources of our adversaries.” Presumably, that would call for a...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
handbook for rethinking diversity and inclusion; and the new book Glass Half-Broken by HBS colleagues Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg. Voting rights is a contentious immediate issue in America, which is puzzling to those of us who feel View Details
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by Kathryn Haviland
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
democracies has been decreasing over the last decades and, in some countries, elections regularly attract less than half of the voting-age population. The lower a democracy’s participation, the more unequal it tends to be, raising...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
term. He wrote an article in 1943 in which he speaks of "venture capital." Q: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is perhaps Schumpeter's best-known work. What makes it so rich and provocative even half a century later? A:...
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- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Americans value; what we value, more accurately, is "liberal democracy." Thus, we would not support the right of 51 percent of a population to persecute or kill the other 49 percent, despite the fact that this is consistent with the notion of View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
state-owned enterprises as a chief instrument of state intervention? 6. Business and Democracy. The relation between business and democracy is contentious. Although many scholars since Douglass North have linked the growth of capitalist...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
Democracy has a dirty little secret. Despite the fever pitch over presidential primaries this year, the truth is there are few people actually voting. Before the most recent round of voting, only some 11 percent of eligible Democrats...
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- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
For more details, see Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes For Better Democracy by John Quelch and Katherine Jocz (Harvard Business Press 2008). Choice sells, in politics and in the supermarket. Distinct choices on the shelf attract our...
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by John Quelch
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
financial one. Institutional change expert Julie Battilana discusses what it will take to create this "transformation of capitalism." Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To HelpHow could a country that epitomized the success of modern...
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- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Transition to Democracy Promotion The Pivot: Neoconservatives, the Philippines, and the Democracy Agenda By: Fibiger, Mattias Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
political views aside to address the impediments to housing and homeownership at the state and local levels. This volume is a compilation of bipartisan recommendations from the authors and success stories from all corners of the country. Book link:...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
on ways to grow the pie of social resources within the legal and legislative systems of the United States, as well as within the democratic systems of other nations. The constraints that democracies place on power certainly do not...
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Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
result, write the authors, is a polarized government unable to compromise to solve the nation's greatest problems or realize its highest aspirations. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
“Ensuring social cohesion in democracy is part of a CEO’s job of managing the strategic environment.” "When they identify with their corporations, do CEOs assume that they are representing them?" One question these events raise for us is...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
Spearheads of Democracy (inspired by his Labor Department duties, which had taken him to Latin America, Africa, and Asia), he decided to leave the School to run for the U.S. Senate as the Republican candidate against Edward M. Kennedy....
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- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
democracy may be a requirement of mandatory service-social service, infrastructure construction, teaching/mentoring or military according to individual talents and interests A couple years contributed in the late teens or early twenties...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
became a democracy in 1991. Democracy didn't work very well for Nepal: starting in 1991 and over the next 12 years it had 12 different governments. The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which had contested...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
Publications August 2013 Cambridge University Press Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline By: Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills Abstract—Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs By: Battilana, Julie, Michael Fuerstein, and Michael Lee Abstract—For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Publisher's site: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/ Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy Authors:John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz Publication:Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2008 Abstract Marketing has a greater...
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Martha Lagace