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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again. View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
bailed out at the expense of taxpayers. As George Soros argued in his book The Crisis of Global Capitalism: “Capitalism and democracy obey different rules.... The interests that are supposed to be served are different: in capitalism it is... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
have been the plan, because nobody thought that was possible. But someone spent tens of thousands of dollars—that’s a rounding error in grand strategy—posting nonsense on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and the so-called paragon of View Details
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
Summing Up Is the case method gaining relevance over time? Case method instruction may not be perfect, but to paraphrase Winston Churchill's view of democracy (and Sameer Kamat's response to the column), it's better than the alternatives.... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
organizations toward positive social change. “We change the language; we change the conversation,” said writer and hip hop artist Bryonn Bain. “We don’t have a truly functional democracy if every voice is not heard.” Mensah said if... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
democracy working together created prosperity for about a billion people around the world. The challenge ahead is to ensure that the other 8 billion people on the planet are brought into this circle as well. Our ability to educate leaders... View Details
- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
For more details, see Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes For Better Democracy by John Quelch and Katherine Jocz (Harvard Business Press 2008). Choice sells, in politics and in the supermarket. Distinct choices on the shelf attract our... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
the Soviet Union. “I negotiated that when there were still tanks around the Lithuanian parliament,” he recalls. “The university’s mission is to promote democracy and civil society in a challenging part of the world,” he says. “LCC is a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
educators. Working from his home overlooking Seattle's Elliott Bay, Nielsen is now writing a book espousing some of his more radical thoughts on education, including the elimination of both age-based grade placement and grade-based performance assessment. The stakes... View Details
- 20 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
India Conference 2015
discussion, opening his speech stating how he believed that India was the “Benjamin Button of the world”. He spoke of an India with over 2000 years of history and culture, with a relatively young heart as a 60-year-old democracy and a... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
program, and finally the extent to which the initiative provides contributions to the long-term strategy of the firm. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509042 India: Democracy and Development... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
and come away with a deeper understanding of the greatest strengths and vulnerabilities of the nation’s democracy as well as its resilience over time. He adapts the case method to revitalize conversations about governance and View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
financial one. Institutional change expert Julie Battilana discusses what it will take to create this "transformation of capitalism." Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To HelpHow could a country that epitomized the success of modern... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
educational institutions. A Democracy Is Born: An Insider’s Account of the Battle against Terrorism in Afghanistan by Matthew J. Morgan (MBA ’07) (Greenwood Publishing Group) In October 2004, more than 8 million citizens of Afghanistan... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
Editor's note: The economy of Greece is in the depths of despair—a fitting topic for a Greek tragedy. As investor Wilbur Ross (HBS MBA 1961) has poignantly put it, "The country that brought us democracy may now take itself into... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
Transition to Democracy Promotion The Pivot: Neoconservatives, the Philippines, and the Democracy Agenda By: Fibiger, Mattias Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
governance structures and norms in place, businesses could help put people, including their workers, and the planet back at their core. Through a series of essays, the book exposes the fault lines between democracy and capitalism and,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
lives for market capitalism (the capitalism that, in the name of profitability and globalization, soon destroyed many of their jobs). Many of those who demonstrated then had in mind socialism with a humane face. Winston Churchill is reported to have remarked that... View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
gas-powered automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Otten says REN is not so much an organization as an “interested network” of business alumni wanting to make our democracy work fairly and for everyone. “The two-party system is currently not working for the people. The parties are not... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley