Elections - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

address. Employees watched closely the numbers of users who might elect the “DeleteMyAccount” button on Facebook. What would you do? Mark Zuckerberg has come to you today to help formulate a plan of action for the company and for his... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

13 Jun 2011
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Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

associate Katharine Lee and teaches it in his second-year elective course Business at the Base of the Pyramid. "The mistake a lot of us make is to look at the folks at the base of the pyramid and assume that they must need the same... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Management division. His second-year elective course, Founder's Dilemmas, was a building block for the book. Last spring, HBS offered four sections of the course to 272 students; it was so popular that another 170 students were... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

21 May 2012
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OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

With an election looming and the economy continuing to struggle, the effectiveness of government regulation has become a political football. While advocates hold regulations up as necessary to protect public health and safety, critics see... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

competes through a proprietary business model and the other opens one module, generally the extensions. As the quality difference grows, cannibalization concerns lessen, and both competitors elect to compete through the same mixed source... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

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By: Ashley V. Whillans

Engaged with field work in East Africa, South Asia, and in several large hybrid organizations in the United States, Professor Whillans places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the social psychological literature and relevant... View Details

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

US presidential elections as far back as 1952 to see if demographic trends can predict political ones. In each election, we calculated how each group of citizens of a certain age, race, or income voted. We then looked at which groups grew... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

polling places on election day. This policy of inclusion meant that voting records were set in the general election and the primaries. Fifth, his advertising messages and his tone and demeanor throughout the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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

2013
Working Paper

Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy?

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Maya Reddy

In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India were redrawn for the first time in three decades. We use detailed demographic and electoral data to construct measures of the extent of redistricting in a given constituency. We find the... View Details

Keywords: Political Elections; India

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02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

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

still only translates to about 17 percent of those eligible. Even the general elections of 2008 and 2012 only saw about half of eligible voters casting a ballot. “Less than half of eligible citizens are voting in a growing number of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

favorable news,” says Jordan. The truth matters Jordan says the findings have implications for social media users, including businesses: Truth is socially valued compared to misleading news. The results can be seen as reassuring, especially in a contentious View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

2013
Book

Porte à porte: Reconquérir la démocratie sur le terrain

By: Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller and Vincent Pons

From January to May 2012, campaign activists supporting François Hollande knocked at five millions doors, making this door-to-door effort the largest in Europe to date. This project was formed by Guillaume Liégey, Arthur Muller, and Vincent Pons, who had met at the... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Political Elections; United States; Europe

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03 Mar 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Strict ID Laws Don’t Stop Voters: Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2016

Keywords: by Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons

2017
Working Paper

Will a Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France

By: Vincent Pons

This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in François Hollande's campaign in the 2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; France

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December 2021
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Partisan Professionals: Evidence from Credit Rating Analysts

By: Elisabeth Kempf and Margarita Tsoutsoura

Partisan perception affects the actions of professionals in the financial sector. Using a novel dataset linking credit rating analysts to party affiliations from voter records, we show that analysts who are not affiliated with the U.S. president’s party downward-adjust... View Details

Keywords: Political Affiliation; Credit Rating Agencies; Political Partisanship; Political Elections; Perception; Credit

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13 Oct 2020
Cold Call Podcast

Can Entrepreneurs Make Mobile Voting Easy and Secure?

Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Public Administration

07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

imagine it. On Election Day, Brand Trump will mean different things to different people but that doesn't matter if he gets their votes. Imagine you are looking at a box of Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes. Clinton would prefer you read the... View Details

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