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- 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
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
presidential races. They studied the number of votes cast in each county for the candidates and used registered party affiliation at the county level to look at how campaign effects differed depending on the level of voter partisanship.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Conservative Club | MBA
Conservative Club The Conservative Club serves as a forum for the exchange of political ideas and values, and to foster a sense of community among HBS students who share conservative political views. Annual... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
and the International Economy Unit. Elisabeth Kempf: Political views shape economic outlook Political views influence the perception of economic reality among finance professionals. In a study linking credit... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 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
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
Gridlock has unfortunately become a way of political life in the nation's capital. But as of midnight on September 30, things went from bad to worse with the shutdown of funding for the federal government. And as if that weren't... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 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
- 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
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
delve into the root causes of why the political system is failing and propose solving the problem by changing the election system. America’s political system is designed as a duopoly, where only two View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
mobs rose up against migrants from other parts of Africa in March 2023, a few weeks after President Kais Saied delivered an inflammatory speech blaming the Black foreign-born population for bringing crime to the country and changing its “demographic makeup.” Populist... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
Washington isn’t broken. It’s thriving. The real problem is that our political system benefits the major political parties and their industry allies—not the people it was... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as those in the Soviet Union and China, which were tightly controlled by government, packed with party apparatchiks, and stifled honest competition by introducing all kinds of inefficiencies into the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
most during your research for this book? A: What was most interesting when I traveled to Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine and talked to these people in the government and in these political parties was to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
rendered the expropriation option quite unattractive since it would hurt diverse parties on whom Chile would rely in the future. At the same time, Kennecott's proposal for a larger mine with majority Chilean ownership addressed Chile's... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
from the left and the right, set out to do just that. For the last two and a half years, we co-chaired the Commission's Mortgage Finance Reform Working Group. Remarkably, we saw consensus emerge from both parties on the goals of the new... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
with finding a political way to implement low corporate taxes. –Ane Damgaard Jensen It also has to be said that a lot of the appeal behind the flat tax is related to the reduction in the administrative burden, but also that flat taxes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
on his first name to outrun the notion that he is the scion of a political dynasty. “To the surprise of many, he won,” Prevelakis says. Once snap elections were called in 2019 and New Democracy won in a landslide, Mitsotakis came to power... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
pay-as-you-go actuarial basis. The public discourse about Medicare for All is deceptively appealing. The health care program for the nation’s seniors is highly prized by Medicare beneficiaries—85 percent say they’re satisfied. Who can blame them? US Congress,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
skills development." Other essentials for governments, Donovan said, are a willingness to privatize businesses, and to follow the rule of law "as opposed to the rule of individual parties and special interests." Another is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
in college was mathematics. I’m really interested in politics, and I’m really interested in analytic thinking. Data journalism feels like the ultimate place where politics and math meet. For a while I worked for David Garth on different... View Details