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Finance - Faculty & Research

relevant in more flexible and substitutable connections. Our findings highlight the role of ideology in shaping the formation and persistence of international firm networks. Keywords: Global Trade ; Firm Networks ; Political Ideology ;... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

the election don’t do it following TV debates. "We find that debates don’t have any effect on any group of voters." “There’s this perception that debates are this great democratic tool, where voters can find out what candidates... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Small Campaign Donors

By: Laurent Bouton, Julia Cagé, Edgard Dewitte and Vincent Pons
In this paper, we study the characteristics and behavior of small donors, and compare them to those of large donors. We first build a novel dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions reported to the U.S. Federal Election Commission between 2005 and... View Details
Keywords: Campaign Finance; Campaign Contributions; Small Donations; ActBlue; WinRed; TV Advertising; Political Elections; Finance; Demographics; Advertising; Analysis; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

Political System Harvard Business School Note 308-063 Offers a detailed overview of the structure and operation of the Chinese political system today. Key issues that are discussed include (1) the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
  • Case

Public Entrepreneurs? Picking a Path

By: Mitchell Weiss and Matthew Segneri
Direct entry into government remained an uncommon post-HBS path, with only 1%–2% of recent classes going directly into the public sector. But, for public-minded MBAs, government wasn’t the sole province for public problem-solving. MBAs could join or launch companies... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Careers; Tri-sector Athlete; Job Searching; Government Innovation; Govtech; CivicTech; Civic Technology; Civic Innovation; Government Technology; MBA Class Of 2017; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Job Search; Jobs and Positions; Innovation Leadership; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

Twiddy & Company: Trust in a Chaotic Environment

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Tom Quinn
Twiddy & Company, known for Southern hospitality rooted in personal interactions, needed to adjust to contactless remote customer service as fear of the contagious virus prevented person-to-person contact. Local elected officials, in a bid to stop tourists from... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Health Pandemics; Organizational Culture; Disruption; Government Legislation; Transportation; Tourism Industry; North Carolina; United States
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  • 03 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

members—Deepak Malhotra, an authority on negotiation strategy; Noel Maurer, an expert on the politics and economics of the energy business; and Magnus Thor Torfason, an authority on how behavior is influenced by the social structures of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

1957-1966, the World Bank and IMF-led structural reforms of the 1980s, and the continuation of reforms after the first democratic elections in 1992. Details Ghana's economic and political context and cluster... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

social, and legal environment in which business operates. The Unit includes scholars trained in economics, political science, and history; in its work, it draws on perspectives from all three of these disciplines. The following... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

leaders have no political competition, or open autocracies like that of Russia, Turkey, and Malaysia, which hold elections but may lack safeguards and transparency that keep them fair. The book investigates... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes

Keywords: by Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay & Max H. Bazerman
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

29. Political infighting continued on the new Isthmian Canal Commission. Theodore Roosevelt travelled to Panama in November 1906—not coincidentally right before the midterm elections and during the worst... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
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About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Finance courses and second-year elective courses on Business at the Base of the Pyramid and impact investing. He also teaches in various executive education courses and in the PhD development sequence in the department of Economics. Much... View Details
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About - Business & Environment

sustainability, and emerging markets, including looking at how digitalization drives sustainability. Tom Clay (MBA 1997), CEO, Xtalic Corporation Tom Clay is collaborating with Josh Krieger and Jim Matheson on the MBA Elective Curriculum... View Details

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
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    Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market competition and company strategy,... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due

    Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Nagi Otgonshar (MBA 2015) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Earning a full scholarship has always been the only realistic ticket to a superior education for me. It was this golden opportunity that allowed me to... View Details
    Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
    • December 2022 (Revised February 2023)
    • Case

    Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef

    By: Jose B. Alvarez, Pedro Levindo and Ruth Costas
    Marfrig, one of the world’s leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The company also pledged to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases in accordance with the guidelines set by the... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Family Business; Communication Strategy; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Bonds; Food; Global Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Government and Politics; Political Elections; Leading Change; Marketing; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Brazil; Latin America; Argentina; Uruguay; North America; United States; Europe; Asia; China
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    • 02 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 2

    religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation in legislator identity generated by close View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 08 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens

    headquarters were built, much of New York’s congressional delegation could be counted on for political support . . . in addition to that from Washington State and elected officials from its other new... View Details
    Keywords: by James K. Sebenius; Real Estate; Construction