Political Campaigns - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

In the 2012 US presidential election, the Obama campaign deftly used a Facebook app to register voters and have friends message them to get out the vote. But it was 2016 presidential campaign that really... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

week's US Supreme Court ruling. It's time to end three-and-a-half years of political wrangling and make the Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA) work. The law's shortcomings are well known. It provides health care access to 30 million... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52034 2016 Contemporary Turkish Politics Forward-Facing and Behind the Scenes: Shifts in Political Islam in Post–July 15 Turkey By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—No... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

congressman and House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. DeLay had a slew of scandals around 2005, charged with violating campaign finance laws and linked to lobbying improprieties, resulting in his 2006 resignation from office. He was later... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

primaries, candidates from both major political parties used anti-establishment messaging to appeal to the electorate, a theme that had been on the sidelines of U.S. political discourse for decades. Trump,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

January 2009
Teaching Note

Obama versus Clinton: The YouTube Primary (TN)

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

Teaching Note for [509032]. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Media; Political Elections; Advertising Campaigns

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06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Alesina, one of the most influential political economists, and I explored these questions before he passed away in 2020. Our work was published recently in the Journal of Economic Literature. We found that anti-immigration arguments tend... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

where FNC was available. Before the passage of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, which put a cap on soft money donations to national political parties, firms were allowed to make large donations to... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-art-of-strategic-renewal/ August 2013 Journal of Development Economics Political Reservations and Women's Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

sequencing and a sustained effort, you don't make progress. Our single-issue focus lately works against us. There's also a tremendous mismatch between the time horizons of politics and of competitiveness. Most things that matter for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

forecasters, and selecting an appropriate evaluation measure, while connecting the processes of aggregating and evaluating forecasts to decision-making. Through three important applications from the domains of meteorology, economics, and View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

It's a truism for many that in American politics money buys influence. In one recent poll, 75 percent of respondents said they believed "money buys results in Congress." But the question of whose money and what results is not so... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

It's safe to say that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act was not pretty. Plagued by technical problems on Healthcare.gov, and stymied by a lack of political support in around half of the 50 states, the federal healthcare exchange set... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

may not offer a functionality that copies data from an AdWords account to a non-AdWords account." The clear effect-and explicitly stated intention-is to impede advertisers' efforts to efficiently copy their ad campaigns to other... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

14 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

the effects of various political campaign activities on voter preferences in the domain of U.S. Presidential elections. We construct a comprehensive data set that covers the three most recent elections, with... View Details