election - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Dec 2012
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Weighing NYC Mayoral Bid, and Shaking Up the Race

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

23 Oct 2019
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Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

Cooper. “It helped me see the value of getting direct input from those on the line in order to put successful process improvements into effect.” First-year MBA students currently participate in eight simulations, and there are more than a dozen in the second-year View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

15 Oct 2019
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Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

2019) displayed both when she reached out to Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, in November 2018 to enlist his support for an idea. Inspired by what she learned in the second-year MBA elective... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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How I Got to Google

create the elective course Product Management 101. Update: A former business operations intern at the software company Autodesk, Soheili recently landed a product manager job at design firm Homepolish. SS: What are the characteristics of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1998
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Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

registration/identity card system. DiCamillo notes with pride that last June's elections there were perhaps the "cleanest" in Mexican history, due to the minimization of fraud and vote tampering afforded by the highly secure Polaroid... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Herman I. Safin

political reforms of perestroika -- Safin's educational and professional background has prepared him well for a career in the global economy. The winner of the first public elections ever held at his high school, Safin served as student... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Feb 2000
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William Jones: Builder with a Mission

policy and urban redevelopment issues. When his boss moved on to another post, Jones filled the vacancy on the council and was subsequently elected to a four-year term. As a councilor, Jones enjoyed "getting streets paved, libraries... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

11 Dec 2014
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Fashion's Retail Revolution

entrepreneur, e-commerce offers low cost of entry, wide reach, rapid scalability, and the opportunity for an MBA to start as CEO. When Senior Lecturer José Alvarez started teaching the MBA Retailing elective five years ago, enrollment was... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Finance

01 Sep 2005
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Trouble in Mouse Land

for Eisner’s reelection to the board. “I was looking for a case about executive compensation and corporate governance,” says Beaulieu, who teaches the elective Coordination, Control, and Management of Organizations (CCMO). “I wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
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Tracking a Turnaround

Levy, CEO of Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, if he would serve as the subject for a multimedia case study currently taught in the MBA Program’s General Management elective and in the AMP Executive Education program. “I told... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Oct 2002
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Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.

its board of directors — a quirky but powerful 23-member group that includes 11 annually elected Harvard and MIT students — on a restructuring plan that eliminated most nonbook merchandise. Barnes & Noble's college division was invited to... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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The American Dream

LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and paper for designing standard... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2025
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Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel

both a cultural phenomenon and a fascinating case study of a struggling 66-year-old brand’s stunning turnaround effort, using the film to help modernize and reframe the doll for a new generation. In his case, “Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel,” which has been... View Details

Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; Illustrations by Miguel Porlan; Educational Services

07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections

papers on investment, capital structure, working capital management, dividend policy, joint ventures, intellectual property, and corporate tax policy. He currently teaches Corporate Financial Operations, a second-year MBA elective course... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less

A few years ago, H. Kent Bowen, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration, undertook a study of smaller companies (firms in the $5 million to $50 million range) in order to develop cases and teaching materials for the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

01 Jun 2024
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Outside Voices

opportunity for reform in these areas, given that the trauma of the crisis and its root causes are still within recent memory. “Voters decided to elect a government headed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995) that is aiming to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

20 Oct 2022
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Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

explored a number of economic, political, and business issues the country is facing. “Lebanon is at a crucial stage in its history,” says Ingea. “We have presidential elections this month, we have an economic crisis like we’ve never seen... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

information services. He is also exploring how firms use information technology to achieve competitive advantage through further refinement of his "strategic grid" framework. MIS faculty have made technology an integral part of the learning process in the group's three... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

01 Sep 2007
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Letters to the Editor

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, would reduce the discussion to a nonproductive, ideological exercise when she observed, “We’ve had 25 years of right-wing ideology saying that the only way to get elected is to run against government.” But I... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

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