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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

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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

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

27 Jun 2005
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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

15 Nov 2022
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Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

Trump’s open disdain for democracy and the rule of law, or his support for white supremacists. Rather, they were traitors, willing to work with a harm-doer to get what they wanted.” We’re all complicit Egregious examples of complicity are... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

response to climate change, and resulted in confusing metrics, lack of transparency, and blatant greenwashing. Yet it is not apparent that government regulation was practical or would have produced better results. The governments of View Details

20 Dec 2022
Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

Can there be corporate democracy if employees can’t vote on the actions its companies take? Yes, and it’s needed now more than ever. The pandemic has brought much employee discontent and activism. Last January, for example, with one-third... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

(MBA 2001) discuss the fundamentals of nonprofit board service and answer questions from attendees. Harnessing Entrepreneurship to Revamp Democracy Featuring Professor Mitch Weiss with Yordanos Eyoel of the New Profit Civic Lab Can we... View Details

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Faculty & Research - Business History

June 2024 183... 2024 Book Chapter The U.S. Secession Crisis as a Breakdown of Democracy By: Dean Grodzins and David Moss This chapter examines the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 as a case of democratic breakdown. From December 1860... View Details

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Partners - Case Method Project

Vocational Technical High School Harwich, MA Subjects: AP Government, Challenges in Democracy MA 122 of 159 Sean O'Reilly Sharon High School Sharon, MA MA 123 of 159 Noel Pardo Tabor Academy Marion, MA MA 124 of 159 Tedd Parker Phillips... View Details

29 Jan 2024
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Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

13 Jul 2021
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Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

negative tweets engaged more users. Originating as internet novelties 15 years ago, social media platforms have altered everything from democracy to human relationships in ways that are hard to overstate. Governments around the world have... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting

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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India

04 Nov 2009
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What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

economic model . The problem with this model is that we are greedy human beings." Paul Browne commented, "Capitalism as an economic ideology that confers control of productive institutions to the owners of capital is often at odds with View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

victims of these types of violent acts. Published March 17, 2021 Note on January 6 Events at U.S. Capitol On January 6th, American democracy was put to the test. The sight of a mob storming the Capitol—attacking police, threatening... View Details

22 Feb 2018
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The New History of American Capitalism

political economy. Thomas Piketty locates the roots of growing inequality in the economic returns to capital and stresses the political stakes of distributive justice. “If democracy is someday to regain control of capitalism,” he writes,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

coedited the book Tutorials in Operations Research: Emerging and Impactful Topics in Operations. Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Climate change and saving democracy I've already read through a tall pile of scientific analyses and alarmist books... View Details

07 May 2014
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How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

one's labor only serve to make fruit salad for everyone else?" Gerald Schultz commented that democracy "is the only way to bring back equality The problems are being identified. Voters will make changes happen eventually. I hope... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

possible case of that solution, at least in a modern context. It did not work particularly well. The United States could intervene to promote democracy and the rule of law, but those interventions failed until the Panamanians developed... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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