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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
sector. This is a big problem when product development cycles and election cycles don't mesh; government funding may be available with one administration and gone with the next. Consider California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
Susan Rosegrant urge business leaders to learn from the lessons of negotiators who have helped to shape recent world history. Watkins, who teaches the popular HBS elective Corporate Diplomacy, worked with Rosegrant, a View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program
not only for a business leader but also for someone considering a career in politics like myself. Third, HBS provides many opportunities to take leadership positions. The responsibilities of the HBS Student Association (SA) really amazed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
While many in this election year are focused on issues that divide the United States and the damage this discord may be doing to democracy, historian David Moss offers a perspective rooted in American democracy’s resilient past. “There... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- July 2007
- Teaching Note
Rwanda: National Economic Transformation (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Michael Patrick McCreless
Teaching Note to 706491. View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
out. "In Lithuania, the rest of society agreed." The national identity of Lithuania was so coherent, in fact, that no influential political party contradicted Lithuanian nationalists. Even though the LDDP party—the successor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
election, and in election years more loans are made to districts in which the ruling state party had a narrow margin of victory (or a narrow loss) in the previous election. This targeting does not occur in non-election years. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
unemployed, and demands for police reform and racial justice. But in the wake of one of the most tumultuous presidential elections in US history—marked by outgoing President Donald Trump claiming the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
consumers and workers, and the political realities of modern governments. That appears to be a central message conveyed by responses to this month’s column. Ian Brinkley raised the issue of shifting needs of trading partners as a problem... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
have to elect marketplace coverage after you lose insurance, as some states have done. “Policymakers just need to recognize that while they haven't had to deal with a major loss in coverage yet, it's coming down the pike.” About the... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
TUFANO: His new consumer finance elective is part of a broader effort to legitimize the field as an important area for research and teaching. Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, would reduce the discussion to a nonproductive, ideological exercise when she observed, “We’ve had 25 years of right-wing ideology saying that the only way to get elected is to run against government.” But I... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees 1997 Publishes Bloomberg by Bloomberg 2001 Elected Mayor of New York City 2012 Launches Bloomberg Philanthropies 2014 Returns to Bloomberg LP as CEO 2017 Coauthors Climate of Hope Founder,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Feb 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
- September 1992 (Revised July 1998)
- Case
Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification
By: George C. Lodge and James W. Ragsdale
In October 1990, eastern Germany was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. The German people rewarded the architect of these changes, Helmut Kohl, with an enhanced majority in national elections. But only two years later it was hard to remember these heady... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Inflation and Deflation; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Political Elections; Situation or Environment; Integration; Europe; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom
Lodge, George C., and James W. Ragsdale. "Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification." Harvard Business School Case 793-033, September 1992. (Revised July 1998.)
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
CEOs of global companies like Coca-Cola, the company figuring most prominently in the Times piece, and Nike (also mentioned) must start to recognize and take responsibility for using the bully pulpit that they in fact occupy. “When View Details
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
disparity of wealth and income in many countries and across regions. In turn, they thought these gaps could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major concern was that our productive... View Details