American presidency - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

Cultural differences can influence business negotiations in significant and unexpected ways, as many a hapless dealmaker has learned. In some cases, it's a matter of ignorance or blatant disrespect, as with the American salesman who... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

search processes that shape networks, cognition, and capabilities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-106.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBanca Regional Andino: Facing the Globalization of Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 307-060 Three... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

08 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 8

companies devised political strategies that maneuvered a reluctant President Roosevelt into supporting their interests, and the Mexican government more than fully compensated them as a result. Neither wages for oil workers nor Mexican... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

1910, faster than the contemporary United States. "A dog with a bone in its mouth neither barks nor bites," Diaz is reported to have said. When Franciso Madero became Mexico's new president in 1911, he attempted to govern as a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan

values can we infer from President Trump’s new tax plan? In the past few weeks, a number of commentaries have excoriated or celebrated the plan, but most have relied on conventional wisdom such as “Republicans care only for the rich.” If... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

else struck you as you were writing this book? A: I was surprised that Gallatin was involved so deeply in managing the governments of Presidents Jefferson and Madison, and by the significant diplomatic role he played in negotiating an end... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

Business School and Hongyi Li (HBS PhDBE '11) of the MIT Sloan School. (An article in the forthcoming April issue of Harvard Business Review, cowritten by Wulf and Booz & Company Senior Vice President Gary L. Neilson, will discuss... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

Chairman and CEO, Emeritus. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910419-PDF-ENG Colombia: Strong Fundamentals, Global Risk Aldo Musacchio, Richard H. K. Vietor, Jonathan Schlefer, and Carolina CamachoHarvard Business School Case 710-012 By mid-2009... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

across the business environment. The subject is also a hot political potato, from Republican President Donald Trump's dramatic trade approach to proposals from Democrats on automation, robots, and job loss. A new study looks at worker... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division Series in a humiliating three straight games. Within a matter of weeks, Sox general manager Theo Epstein had launched one of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

EU Commission President Juncker sees “the wind [ ] back in Europe's sails.” Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55046 Harvard Business School Case 518-034 International Institute of Tropical Agriculture... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

entrepreneurs. That's what "bringing society in" means. It's more than thinking that the organization should be customer oriented. It means, "Let's think about our community." Q: President Obama: vanguard leader? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Some refer to the post-crash era as a paradigm shift for commercial real estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

messages across these audiences, that's where our true value is." “Rating systems should take into consideration a company's political contributions, advocacy work, and engagement with nongovernmental organizations” And yet, in the words of Al Gore, the former US... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

funds have made an important contribution to both the democratization and the strengthening of the American economy," says HBS professor Jay O. Light, an expert on the financial services industry. And now, according to Light and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on bailouts. Politicians pounced. President... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

Credit: malerapaso For as much as American politicians and their constituents complain about taxes, the truth is that tax reform packages to address those complaints are rare—the last major reform of the tax code was passed in 1986 under... View Details