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04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

Florida legislature, after several weeks of heated public controversy, passed and sent to Governor Ron DeSantis a Parental Rights in Education bill stating: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

2024
Case

Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations: Figueres the Negotiator (C)

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian

This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Management; International Relations; Leadership

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01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

evaluate if the airline's strategy will be sustainable as Emirates faces technical and political challenges to expand and must compete with numerous new players from the Middle East. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

they operate. Political science, government, and history paid attention; and even the economist Joseph Schumpeter, with his notion of individuals who operate outside the social structure and who can then innovate, staked out a tradition... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

certainly controversial, but political pundits rarely ask a key question: Do they actually work? A new research paper reaches a surprising conclusion: These rules don't impact voter fraud or public confidence, nor do they dampen... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

all. Everyone would act as a free agent in a winner-take-all contest. Opportunism and selfish political behavior would be rampant. A great deal of frantic effort would be expended—but little of it would be the kind of coordinated effort... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

drawing upon literature and ideas and other disciplines. We're looking at identity politics, political science, and social policy. We are trying to learn from other interdisciplinary approaches and asking, "How do we rationally and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

kinds of leadership, and sometimes the best leaders are those who rarely have to do or say anything, but [who] can be very effective through quiet example-setting," says Werker. "Maybe we just trust Scandinavians to be nice neutral View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Nov 2008
Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

been hijacked in countless political speeches from an embodiment of America's core values into a crass appeal to materialism and easy gratification. Right-wing politicians touting the American Dream consistently advocate lower taxes. The... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

15 Nov 2018
Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

mythical fixed-pie often prevents parties from even looking for wise solutions. Q: In doing research for the book, were you surprised by anything you ran across? A: I was surprised by what I learned about my own View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

persuade,” says Pons. “Here we have evidence that persuasion is also possible.” Takeaways for political parties Taken together, Pons’ studies point to just how important a personal touch can be in getting... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

of the paper’s authors. The main reason is that party and candidate positions on key issues subtly or not-so-subtly change from election to election in reaction to shifts in voter sentiment, undercutting the demographic trends. View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

self-important, people. Chinese universities, like state-owned organizations, are still plagued with party committees, and the university party secretary normally outranks the president. (It should be noted... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology

07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

that he was the greatest. Brand Trump seems more petulant than personable. Absent political experience, party unity and policy specifics, personality is all that brand Trump offers, and it's already wearing... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

effect holds true regardless of which political party is in control. In terms of laws that are actually enacted, the impact of mass shootings depends on which party is in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

and project understandings throughout the episode, which we call diagnostic incongruence. In contrast, the parties in successful episodes engaged in aligning practices that fostered shared expectations and project understandings (i.e.,... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

record to defeat the heir apparent in his own party and then go on to hold off the much-vaunted Republican machine is a truly remarkable achievement. Much of it has to do with Obama's instinct for marketing. First, Obama's personal... View Details