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  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

democracy as well as its resilience over time. The book adapts the case method to revitalize conversations about governance and democracy and show how the United States has often thrived on political... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Attendees will delve into the challenges and opportunities associated with such initiatives for individuals, firms, and policy makers. Video Recording The Future of Democracy 11:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET Speaker: Vincent Pons , Byron Wien... View Details
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Keep Your Enemies Closer: Strategic Platform Adjustments during U.S. and French Elections

By: Rafael Di Tella, Randy Kotti, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
A key tenet of representative democracy is that politicians' discourse and policies should follow voters' preferences. In the median voter theorem, this outcome emerges as candidates strategically adjust their platform to get closer to their opponent. Despite its... View Details
Keywords: Political Ideology; Political Elections; United States; France
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  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of equity—the beta anomaly—generates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    Louis E. Caldera

    Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details

      John A. Quelch

      John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media
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      Curriculum - Case Method Project

      vote. Coverage: 1800 – 1846; Panic of 1837; infrastructure and “internal improvements”; public debt; New York State; constitutional conventions; Barnburners; Erie Canal; direct democracy The Struggle Over Public Education in Early America... View Details
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      Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

      Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students July 2025 Article Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy By: Marco Tabellini and Giacomo... View Details
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      About - Case Method Project

      developing and implementing full semester or year-long civics courses comprised entirely of History of American Democracy cases. For more information on participating in future workshops or bringing the Case Method to your school or... View Details
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      Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)

      In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals... View Details

        Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

        A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

        In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details
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        By: Vincent Pons
        Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

        He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
        • 25 Jul 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

        forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez Abstract—Admissions policies often use reserves to grant certain applicants... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • June 2023
        • Case

        The Business of Campaigns

        By: Vincent Pons and Mel Martin
        In 2022, the U.S. Congress examined the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, the latest in a long series of campaign finance reforms. According to its authors, the law would be the “most consequential overhaul of federal... View Details
        Keywords: Political Elections; Government Legislation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
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          Business of Platforms

          The Business of Platforms is an in-depth look at platform strategy and digital innovation.  In this book, we explore how a small number of companies have come to exert extraordinary influence over every dimension of our personal, professional and political... View Details

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          About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

          Marketing Director for Beneficial Pain, an educational nonprofit focused on empowering and investing in youth in Baltimore. She has also done communications freelance work for nonprofit social impact organizations like Partners in View Details
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          A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

          • 2022
          • Book

          Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

          By: Jeremy Friedman
          A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

          In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
          Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
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          • 02 Sep 2015
          • What Do You Think?

          What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

          but for a healthy democracy not so much." Finding a high correlation in his research between disgruntled employees and employee sabotage, Murray Burt advised us to “Stray into unhappy employee territory at your peril. I suspect... View Details
          Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion
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          Research - Global

          Transmission of Democracy By: Marco Tabellini and Giacomo Magistretti In this paper, we study the effects of economic integration with democratic partners on democracy. We assemble a large country-level panel dataset from 1960 to 2015,... View Details