Political Networks - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

bridging public policy and private sector innovation. This jointee network even connected me with the founder of a health tech company that I now work for alongside school. (2) Flexibility to explore opportunities outside of school.... View Details

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Nneka Ezeigwe

different kinds of industries on the ground, looking at what drives change and takes an economy to the next level. I’ll be able to work with policy makers and business leaders who are expanding Nigeria’s economy and political landscape.... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

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Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge

medium-sized enterprises in the US and Canada who were surveyed on the Alignable networking platform in late March. The answers, gathered just before the US government announced tariffs on imports from countries worldwide, illustrate how... View Details

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

megascale project: to construct the world's largest amusement park, called Dubailand. Examines various aspects of Dubai's background, world real estate and tourism trends, and environmental and political conditions of the region to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

antitrust laws also don’t deal well with companies that took advantage of network effects to become huge and now are perceived as ‘too big to fail’ or to do anything about.” Does antitrust law need a high tech reset? What do you think?... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

honor achievements for the benefit of mankind. Longevity: The prizes have been awarded since 1901. Urde and Greyser note that the international prizes made a big impression from the beginning because they were established during a time of prevailing nationalism. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

Toronto. "But more recent research shows how culture endures in spite of globalization. Networks and local regulations also significantly influence how companies react to their local environments." “For philanthropic leaders,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2003
News

Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2

networking and educational opportunities offered by “eco-salons,” where they might meet speakers such as Carol Browner, former head of the EPA, or Doug Foy, chief of Commonwealth Development for the state of Massachusetts. Many, but not... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

30 Apr 2025
News

A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

September 1992 (Revised March 1993)
Case

Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program

By: Willis M. Emmons III and Monica Brand

Mexico's largest construction company, Empresas ICA, makes an initial public offering to international equity investors in April 1992 to help fund its participation in an ambitious new private-sector approach to highway development. Under the new program, launched by... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Transportation Networks; Infrastructure; Privatization; Private Equity; Investment; Initial Public Offering; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Policy; Construction Industry; Mexico

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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

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

Publications August 2013 Palgrave Macmillan The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World By: Reinert, Sophus A., and Pernille Røge, eds. Abstract—This volume recasts our understanding of the practical and theoretical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog

Learn how to read and diagnose an organization’s political landscape through power mapping. - Analyze professional networks and identify key patterns. - Understand and apply strategies for cultivating and... View Details

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

that this tradeoff is shifted towards the reseller-mode when marketing activities create spillovers across products and when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation. If the reseller has a variable... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

executive branch a credible political excuse not to act. Maurer cautions that these institutions are now under strain and that a collapse might open the empire trap once more. With shrewd and timely analysis, this book considers American... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 May 2014
News

Inside Africa

Google made her “a very attractive offer” for the domain name and she had to decide whether to take the money and move on. Instead, she put together a website herself over the course of a weekend and watched as the traffic grew and grew. Today the site offers a rich... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

07 Jul 2015
Blog Post

From Teach for America – to HBS – and Back Again

had been admitted. You see, I’m a Jewban (a Jewish Cuban) and my family history includes escaping the Bolshevik revolution and the Holocaust to settle in Cuba, only to turn around and flee the communist regime and seek out religious and View Details

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have network effects, with the potential for a winner-take-all or winner-take-most outcome. 2)... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 6

Publications August 2013 Cambridge University Press Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline By: Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills Abstract—Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals... View Details