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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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    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
    • 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
    • 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
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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

    was 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. Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning By: Rosabeth... 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

        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

        • 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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        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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        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
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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
        • 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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        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
        • 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