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  • September 2009
  • Article

Finance and Politics: A Review Essay Based on Kenneth Dam's Analysis of Legal Traditions in The Law-Growth Nexus

By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
Strong financial markets are widely thought to propel economic development, with many in finance seeing legal tradition as fundamental to protecting investors sufficiently for finance to flourish. Kenneth Dam finds that the legal tradition view inaccurately portrays... View Details
Keywords: Financial Development; Economic Development; Kenneth Dam; Finance; Government and Politics; Information; Law
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  • April 2023
  • Case

Twitter: The Freedom to Speak Freely and Be Heard

By: Randolph B. Cohen, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Mel Martin
In April 2022, serial entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that he would be interested in purchasing the social media site Twitter for $44 billion. With more than 100 million twitter followers, Musk had historically leveraged the site to engage with the customers of his... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Acquisition; Social Media; Power and Influence; Technology Industry; Communications Industry; Public Relations Industry; United States
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  • 23 Jul 2020
  • News

The Long Game of Coronavirus Research

  • 16 Apr 2018
  • News

Tax Reform, Round One

  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54967 Does Context Trump Individual Drivers of Voting Behavior? Evidence from U.S. Movers By: Cantoni, Enrico, and Vincent Pons Abstract—This paper assesses the relative influence of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2018
  • Book

The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy

By: Sophus A. Reinert
The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the... View Details
Keywords: Enlightenment; Political Economy; Italy; Commercial Society; Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; Italy
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  • Web

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

1927–1969 Alex Trotman Ford Motor Company, 1993–1998 Donald J. Trump Trump Organization, 1975–Present Daniel P. Tully Merrill Lynch & Company, 1993–1997 Robert E. (Ted) Turner Turner Communications,... View Details

    The Academy of Fisticuffs

    The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

    • 27 Mar 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: March 27

    U.S., and an experimental exercise) that are consistent with the model.   Working PapersWhen Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation Authors:Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We examine... 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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    • September 2022
    • Case

    Deciding When to Engage on Societal Issues

    By: Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal
    This case provides brief descriptions of 18 examples of corporate leaders confronting questions of whether and how to engage with societal issues, including social, political, and environmental issues. Social issues include COVID-19; social and racial justice;... View Details
    Keywords: Political Issues; Social Justice; Racial Justice; Environmental Issues; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Values and Beliefs
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    • 01 Nov 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

    fostered “know-it-alls vs. learn-it-alls,” practiced “accountability that trumped everything,” and in which “hierarchy and pecking order had taken control.” The process of changing that culture involved a classic effort to identify and... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 11 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

    that looks at both the H1-B restrictions and the executive orders that Donald Trump issued in April 2017. We found that led to an erosion of $100 billion of valuation for US companies. Finally, the US is losing a policy battle related to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 04 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

    When US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in 2020, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Edward Chang noticed something interesting: To fill the vacancy, then-President Donald Trump replaced Ginsburg with another woman,... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 15 Nov 2022
    • Book

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

    perpetrator’s mission. Some examples of collaborators include those assistants and actors who kept silent even as movie producer Harvey Weinstein assaulted women. Also in this category, says Bazerman, are legislators like Lindsay Graham and Mitch McConnell who... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • Web

    Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work

    26 May 2019 | Financial Times Global Workers Are Ready for Retraining Developing Employees 07 May 2019 | Harvard Business Review The Plight of the Graying Tech Worker William R. Kerr 28 Mar 2019 | Sloan Management Review A skilled would-be immigrant says View Details
    • 18 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

    Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details
    Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities
    • 09 Nov 2016
    • Op-Ed

    6 Lessons from Donald Trump's Winning Marketing Manual

    good old days really existed and they voted to bring them back. Pursue forgotten consumers. Most financial firms chase the same high net worth prospects, ignoring or at best taking for granted millions of modestly prosperous people. Trump... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch
    • 05 Dec 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

    target’s beliefs by giving a false or distorted impression. But it’s not just businesspeople who palter. Donald Trump has done it. Hillary (and Bill) Clinton, too. Chances are you have paltered. “People seem to be using this strategy... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 31 Oct 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

    Edmondson, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, N.J., 2019). Gallup,  State of the American Workplace (Gallup: Washington, D..C., 2017), accessed June 13,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett