Politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie

expose these fallacious attitudes in order, they write, "to encourage citizens to adopt a new way of thinking about political issues that will inspire them to work for positive social change." "Thinking and acting more rationally about... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings

Finance in Emerging Markets–China offers a detailed analysis of China’s capital markets, ranging from the macroeconomic environment and political context to detailed microlevel study. Knowledge-Based Strategy presents a different view of... View Details

Keywords: curriculum

01 Jun 2025
News

Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)

with post-COVID construction costs soaring, political winds have shifted away from solely taxpayer-funded venues toward public-private partnerships. As the global head of sports finance at Goldman Sachs, Sonnenberg works to develop... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

Profile

Bei Guo

bring 90 students from different backgrounds into one place where it's safe to speak freely? Right away, we talked about the most sensitive topics: race, ethnicity, political correctness. After going through that, we felt we had nothing... View Details

01 Mar 2024
News

Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

States and China. As political tensions rise between the two countries, US government policies have caused a move away from direct trade with China, shifting sourcing to lower-wage nations and friendly neighbors and shoring up American... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2009
News

It’s the Economy

order of appearance, they begin with an overview of the big impact the crisis has already had on HBS cases, courses, and faculty research. see article Challenge magazine editor Jeff Madrick’s (MBA ’71) new book, The Case for Big Government, upends a generation of... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2005
News

The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money

law when you can make a reasonable profit by abiding by the law? Are you hopeful that things will get better? Part of the reason I’m optimistic is that the illegalities I write about can be curtailed merely with the application of View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance

01 Sep 2007
News

A Man of Influence

encompass political consulting. After doing some work for LBJ, the vice president asked Valenti to run President Kennedy’s reelection campaign fundraiser in Houston — hardly friendly territory for an Irish-Catholic Yankee. Pleased with... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

02 May 2018
Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

practice he calls “radical transparency.” That means “giving most everyone the ability to see most everything (to reduce) harmful office politics and the risks of bad behavior more likely to take place behind closed doors than out in the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

replenish all the water it uses in beverage production. "They're minimizing the political and consumer risks they face from people who say, 'You're taking all the water,' or 'You're polluting local water supplies,'" Henderson says.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

highlight both the opportunities and challenges of launching and operating a venture within the region. Experts from Singapore’s private and public sectors will share their insights, offering a balanced perspective. The Fall classes will cover (preliminary): View Details

01 Jan 2004
News

Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963

best people you can find and then let them do their job." CURRENT READING Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, by Christopher T. Cross As head of Hazleton, which he turned into the largest independent contract laboratory in... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

shatter every firm that might conceivably pose a systemic threat in a crisis. Large financial institutions create a danger, to be sure, but many also deliver valuable services. And even if we wished to take all of them apart, it’s doubtful we could, as a result of both... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

26 Mar 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

had all the data and insight they needed to recognize the potential of major problems but failed to respond with preventative action. Psychological, organizational, and political factors conspire to keep us from dealing with potential... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Cracks in the Foundation

foundation, the survey sought to gauge the impact of 17 specific macro- and microeconomic factors. Of greatest concern to alumni were dysfunction in America's political system, the complex tax code, a failing K-12 education system, an... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2016
News

Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money

They want the “warm glow”—to feel good from doing it. They want to signal something about themselves—that they are nice, for instance, or that they hold certain political tendencies. Volunteering is—or perhaps increasingly can be—a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2001
News

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk

mainland China is on the verge of its own political awakening. “What is happening in Taiwan will have a great impact on China,” he predicts. Leave it to Jimmy Lai to want to be where change is happening the fastest — and where the risks... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

June 1995
Case

Northern Telecom and Netas (A): Turkey's Telecommunications Team

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum and Pamela A. Yatsko

The Turkish general manager of a successful telecommunications equipment-manufacturing joint venture between the Canadian company Northern Telecom and local partners in Turkey reviews the solutions to a crisis in 1989 and wonders whether the company will be able to... View Details