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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
David Moss is Rewriting History
the US Constitution, you need to understand the time period from which it emerged, Moss argues, and the problems and personalities that shaped it. Today’s case protagonist is Founding Father James Madison; the question he faces is the debate over the “federal... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
centrist Republican Party has shifted to the right edge of the scale, ten clicks to your right. You think of yourself as fairly liberal socially — so you can understand why your daughter doesn’t want the government to step into her most... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
should only be a last resort), the first step should be to gather information. Before speaking to employees, make sure to have as much information as possible about next steps and available resources. Next, find the time when both parties... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
timing, last Fall Congress passed the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019, which is designed to reduce the financial and administrative burden of Chapter 11 on small- to medium-sized businesses (those with non-contingent debts under... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome of these international... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
face,” Matt Segneri (MBA 2010) told the Wall Street Journal this week. Segneri, who directs the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, said the number of HBS grads getting into politics has spiked recently and includes members of both political View Details
Keywords: politics
- 03 Nov 2020
- News
One Paramount Priority
the media and its outsize responsibility in shaping public opinion. Governors could serve as role models, demonstrating what public safety could look like. The winning party must resist the urge to gloat after the election is finalized,... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
irony Edwards savors with a smile: “At several public meetings at the White House, President Bush has referred to me as ‘my congressman.’” But not for much longer if the Republican Party has its way. The GOP painted a big target on... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
effect holds true regardless of which political party is in control. In terms of laws that are actually enacted, the impact of mass shootings depends on which party is in power. In states with... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
rule-making done behind the scenes, Gehl and Porter assert. The parties have enacted rules that protect their dominance by controlling the primary process, access to voter data, fundraising limits, how View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
raising taxes. With the Pledge, we branded the Republican Party at the national level as the party that will not raise your taxes. What are your tax reform priorities for the second Bush administration? Year... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
Marketing of a President. Barack Obama's campaign is a case study in marketing excellence. True, it was always going to be a Democratic year. An unpopular war, an incumbent Republican president with rock bottom approval ratings, and many Republican incumbents retiring... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
analytic problems, where you need to think not just about the data but also its implications and the question you’re asking. I was recently in a meeting about redesigning a poll to give an indication—not an absolute conclusion—of which View Details
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
slaves for life 1676 Bacon's Rebellion 1677 First recorded prosecution against strikers in New York City 1680 Virginia hypersurveillance law enacted: An act for preventing Negroes Insurrections 1773 Laborers protest royal taxation in the Boston tea View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first Gulf War. Instead of approaching View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
Party in Massachusetts. 1860s and 1870s: Opposition to Chinese immigrants in the US culminated in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned the entry and the re-entry of Chinese immigrants for more than 70 years. 1910s and 1920s: View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
other senators who shared the same alma mater also voted in favor of those bills. "After party and state, this seems to be among the most reliable determinants of the way that senators vote," Cohen says. Since most members of View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Congress for the authority to take them over, it was granted without much debate. I’ve spoken to almost every lawmaker, regulator, and executive who might have influenced that decision, and none indicated they lost much sleep over the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
volume, is titled Consumer-Driven Health Care (Jossey-Bass, 2004). What is the fundamental difference between consumer-driven and managed health care? Over two decades ago, managed care, which gives a third party control over patients’... View Details