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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
  • 05 Mar 2019
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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
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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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    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
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    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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    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    Fredo Arias Fellowship was established through the generosity of Fredo Arias-King (MBA 1996) in honor of his parents, Arlene and Fredo Arias, both democracy activists. Arias-King is president of the pine oil manufacturer T&R Chemicals. He... View Details
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    Overview

    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
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    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
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    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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      U.S. Competitiveness

      three years. More from “A Recovery Squandered” 68% of alumni believe that democracy in America is at risk. More from “A Recovery Squandered” Featured Videos 14 Sep 2017 Video Webinar: Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing... View Details
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      Team - Case Method Project

      which received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. In 2013, David launched a case-based course on the history of American democracy for Harvard undergraduates and MBA students. The success of this course inspired... View Details
      • 02 Sep 2015
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      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
      • 2016
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      Advanced Leadership Pathways: Alberto Mora and the Costs and Consequences of Torture

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Benjamin Summers
      Alberto Mora's time as General Counsel of the Navy from 2001–2006 greatly influenced his mission to illuminate the policy consequences of torture. Mora's drive to restore the nation's awareness and conscience against torture was gaining traction. Prominent... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Skills; Torture; Costs And Consequences; Humane; Restraint; Human Dignity; Treatment Of Prisoners; Prison; Repression; Opposition; Revolution; Democracy; Communism; International Affairs; Public Service; September 11; War On Terror; Operation Enduring Freedom; Guantanamo; Cuba; Coalition; Working Group; Cruelty; Interrogation; Memorandum; American Law; Authority; Authoritative; Quadrennial Defense Review; National Defense Authorization Act; Public Engagement; Advocacy; Law; Accountability; Center For The Victims Of Torture; Human Rights; Public Policy; Legality; Morality; Legal System; Tactical Military Operations; West Point; NGO; Human Rights First; American Civil Liberties Union; Human Rights Watch; Amnesty International; Constitution Project; Center For Constitutional Rights; Strategic Military Effect; National Security; Weapon; Terrorism; Prisoners Of War; Abu Ghraib; Pentagon; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Rights; Policy; Public Opinion; United States
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      2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

      Rising Challenge to Democracy Around the World Professor David Moss + More Info – Less Info After spreading rapidly in the late 20th century, democracy has been on the defensive around the world—and arguably... View Details
      • 27 Jun 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

      certain, that Asian firms will follow this evolutionary path. The political connections so important for top business leaders in Asia, whether in democracies or one-party states, are not unknown but are much less important in America. It... View Details
      Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
      • 28 Nov 2023
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      Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

      With democracy retreating worldwide, businesses with global aspirations increasingly face the challenge of setting up shop in geographies where autocrats rule. In doing so, they often lose the comforting assurances of democratic areas... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne