Political Influence - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

attempting to fully control and micromanage their workforce, several companies try to influence and empower employee behavior by improving internal and external communication practices. Often, the stronger emphasis on communication... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

and the International Economy Unit. Elisabeth Kempf: Political views shape economic outlook Political views influence the perception of economic reality among finance... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can influence markets and shape... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

White House popularized the term “fake news,” the influence of social media advertising and online publishing requires serious reexamination. That began to happen October 24 at the The Future of Advertising and Publishing conference held... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

Finance, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, Abdelal discusses the rise and diminishment of capital controls in the 1900s, the coming influence of China and India on global financial markets, and a conspiracy theory that U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

Zhang compared the effectiveness of ads prepared by the candidate's own campaign with ads supporting the candidate prepared by outside political groups, including political action committees (PACs). “"I need... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France, conducted with French professors Céline Braconnier and Jean-Yves Dormagen, the researchers examined the difficulties citizens had in registering to vote in the French presidential election of 2012. Door-to-door... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

Fox News has influenced how companies disclose financial news. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the set in 2016. Source: Wikipedia Commons, CC 3.0) The United States presidential election of 2000 took place in a simpler time. The internet... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

legislation. And corporate influence will only increase in the wake of last year's "Citizens United" US Supreme Court case, which asserts that corporations have the right to fund campaigns that support or denounce View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

forces are: The external environment. The external environment forces leaders to act in response to its pressures, leaving individual leaders little control or influence on policy and implementation. Internal organizational dynamics.... View Details

07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

commercial brand become a political brand? Is the commercial Trump brand extendable into the political arena? Commercial marketing and political marketing differ in two... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

beliefs that they share are different.” Bowlweevils, injecting a political note into a discussion intended to deal with economics, argued that Germany has no model for dealing with immigrants and asylum seekers. As he put it, “Germany ...... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities

June 2009
Teaching Note

The Rise of President Barack Hussein Obama (TN)

By: David A. Thomas, Laura Morgan Roberts and Stephanie Creary

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Keywords: Value; Political Elections; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; United States

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23 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

corporate abuses or (2) less-developed nations roughly equal in power and with some control of corporate abuses. Unfortunately, much of today's international trade does not meet these conditions. Under the colonial system, powerful industrialized countries gain View Details

Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence

10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

growing academic interest in the influence of social networks on entrepreneurial successes and failures, Nanda says. As an example, he cites Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128, a 1994 book by... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

influenced by a vast array of factors: schools, roads, regulatory complexity, almost everything matters—not just the traditional macroeconomic policies. If you don't have a good public-education system, for example, you lack the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

2013
Article

Historical Legacies, Modern Conflicts: State Consolidation and Religious Pluralism in Greece and Turkey

By: Kristin Fabbe

Through a comparative study of state consolidation processes and the acceptance of religious tolerance in Greece and Turkey, this piece shows that there is often a direct link between strategies of state building, the creation of state identities, and contemporary... View Details

Keywords: Religion; Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Turkey; Greece

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