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  • 2021
  • Book

The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information are all in alarming decline. A 2018 report published by the RAND Corporation... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Information; Civil Society or Community
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  • 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
  • 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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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 & Environment

The governments of democracies as a whole prioritize generating wealth over the environment, because it translates into votes. Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small APRIL 2025 | Teaching... 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
    • 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, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

    Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33564, March 2025. Retrofitting Leninism: Participation Without Democracy in China | by Dimitar D. Gueorguiev // Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in... View Details
    • Research Summary

    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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      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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      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
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      General Management - Faculty & Research

      practical or would have produced better results. The governments of democracies as a whole prioritize generating wealth over the environment, because it translates into votes. April 2025 Case So You Want to Change the World?: A Personal... 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

      organization, 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... View Details