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- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
As Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills spent four years as part of President Barack Obama's senior economic team and a member of his Cabinet, specifically focused on the health and growth of America's small businesses and... View Details
- 18 Apr 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay
- winter 1984
- Article
Business and Government: The Origins of the Adversary Relationship
McCraw, T. K. "Business and Government: The Origins of the Adversary Relationship." California Management Review 26, no. 2 (winter 1984): 33–52.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S.
By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini
How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrant assimilation? To answer this question, we assemble novel data from the Catholic directories to measure the presence of Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved... View Details
Gagliarducci, Stefano, and Marco Tabellini. "Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S." Economic Journal (forthcoming). (Also available from NBER and featured in NBER Digest and VoxEU.)
- 2001
- Other Unpublished Work
Keynote Address - Defense Acquisition History Symposium
By: J. Ronald Fox
- 01 Jun 2003
- Conference Presentation
Leading in Complex National Security Environments
By: Scott Snook
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
An internment camp for German citizens in England. Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo Global enterprises that do business in emerging economies face significant political risks—in extreme cases, imprisonment of their civilian employees during... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
I’d never actually experienced it firsthand. So what that showed me was that the problem must be statewide if our privileged community couldn’t survive on the funds that we were given. So we realized we needed to build the political will... View Details
- 15 May 2015
- Blog Post
2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice
I first learned about the 2+2 Program after an older friend from Vanderbilt, my undergraduate college, applied and was accepted into the inaugural class in 2008. My undergraduate background was in political science and human and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
the stagecraft of political campaigns “There are so many things that can keep you from writing. Chief among them is not considering yourself a writer. Once you cross the threshold and start telling people that you are a writer, then you... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
From Green Users to Green Voters
By: Diego Comin and Johannes Rode
We estimate the effect of the diffusion of photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of votes obtained by the German Green Party. The logistic diffusion of PV systems offers a new identification strategy. We take first differences and instrument adoption rates (i.e.... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Technology Adoption; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Germany
Comin, Diego, and Johannes Rode. "From Green Users to Green Voters." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19219, July 2013.
- 1967
- Other Unpublished Work
TFX (B) - Developing an Air Force/Navy Aircraft - HBS Analysis and Decision Case
By: J. Ronald Fox
- 2008
- Chapter
Yes, But Weak States Can Be Coaxed Creatively
By: Eric D. Werker
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist
Business School, thinking that his undergraduate studies in political economy, a short-lived acting career, and three-plus years on the Sustainability Strategy and Transformation team at the London consultancy ERM, would perhaps “bring a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
and valuable experience to be right there." But being "right there" last summer meant being in a region rife with political and social unrest. It is widely believed that Liberian president Charles Taylor has been supporting Revolutionary... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third of employers surveyed weren’t sure they could pay premiums... View Details
- 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
Bouton, Laurent, Julia Cagé, Edgard Dewitte, and Vincent Pons. "Small Campaign Donors." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30050, May 2022.
- January 2009
- Teaching Note
Obama versus Clinton: The YouTube Primary (TN)
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Teaching Note for [509032]. View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia
Energy Future’s timeliness underscores another key “energy” problem: America’s inability to get its energy act into gear. “Cognitive, organizational, and political barriers — which are all interconnected — must be surmounted if we are to... View Details