Political Elections - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

19 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 19

paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

tax. The people [the president is] talking about taxing are the very people that we expect to reinvest in our economy and to create jobs." With the Presidential election of 2016 around the corner and View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

government and business , international finance Interviews Güler Sabancı Suraj Srinivasan Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration Chair, MBA Elective Curriculum Research Interests : boards of directors , corporate... View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

in effective leadership. MBA Elective Curriculum (SECOND YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under Technology & Operations Management) Willy Shih , Derek van... View Details

17 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

them white, came out to support him. Why did Donald Trump’s candidacy appeal to so many women voters? Although his election has been attributed primarily to disenfranchised citizens, the data suggest otherwise. Women from varying... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely

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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

Administration Vikram S. Gandhi is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit and Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He has developed and teaches a new course, Sustainable Investing, in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. He... View Details

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

parks—responsible for spreading “pixie dust” for Disney’s “guests”—were supporters of these groups. Within Disney, employees were protesting on social media and organizing walkouts from company theme parks in Florida and elsewhere. In spite of these warnings, Chapek... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Reinert : Received the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for exceptional contributions to the experience of the graduating class. Meg Rithmire : Recipient of the 2023 HBS Student Association Faculty Teaching Award for Outstanding Teaching in the View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Organizing the Family-Run Business

way to organize and provide a voice for the shareholders. Shareholder meetings I believe should be annual, brief and rather formal, focusing on the election of board members and auditors and updating corporate by-laws. While these... View Details

02 Mar 2016
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David Moss is Rewriting History

Moss begins this class, but for the next 90 minutes, we are in the critical period of the mid-1780s, between the end of the American Revolution and the election of the country’s first president, when the nation was governed by the... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

were rooted in craftwork traditions, seldom exhibited a similar interest in mass selling campaigns. Salesmanship flourished in America for cultural reasons as well. In a country that, from the outset, held democratic elections and had no... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

continue to push, because if you succeed, unfortunately you’re the exception. If you fail, it’s I-told-you-so.” Election bid: “Would I run for mayor of New York again? Yes, unequivocally. I wanted to use my background and experience to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

sway among the public, political and economic leaders, and leading tax thinkers, and then characterizing the implications of using those objectives in the analysis of optimal taxation. In other work, he has explored the potential value of... View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Political science has seen a rise in probability forecasts for geopolitical events, with forecasting competitions and blogs like Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com offering probabilities of election results,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

08 May 2023
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How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

the sharpest pullback in support from financial backers on Kickstarter during the 2016 election cycle, while Chinese ethnic creators in the US faced a harder time meeting their financing goals during “episodes of Asian hate,” including... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Henderson : Chosen as one of three “Directors of the Year” by the Financial Times . Frank Nagle : Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations, Term-Member, 2019. Jan W. Rivkin : Finalist for the 2019 Strategic Management Society (SMS)... View Details

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