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- 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
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
on that potential pricing structure. At the same time, US businesses now wield more and more political power to influence such policy, thanks in part to Supreme Court rulings like Citizens United that enable... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
political risk, and slower growth. Understanding what constitute good institutions and how institutions influence economic and political behavior is therefore crucial. Finally,... View Details
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/adamkaz) CEO activism entered a new chapter with the decision by more than 200 leaders of large corporations last month to publicly declare their support for voting rights for Americans and, by extension, their opposition to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Pledge of Allegiance
Norquist: Backstage, an outsized role. As the political season heats up, few nonpoliticians wield as much ideological impact on the process as Grover Norquist (MBA 1981). For two decades, Norquist’s organization, Americans for Tax Reform,... View Details
- 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
Fabbe, Kristin. "Historical Legacies, Modern Conflicts: State Consolidation and Religious Pluralism in Greece and Turkey." Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 13, no. 3 (2013): 435–453.
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Bargaining Power of Multinationals and Host Governments
By: L. T. Wells Jr. and N. Fagre
Wells, L. T., Jr., and N. Fagre. "Bargaining Power of Multinationals and Host Governments." Journal of International Business Studies 13, no. 2 (Fall 1982). (Reprinted in Philip Grub, Fariborz Ghadar, and Dara Khambata (eds.) The Multinational Enterprise in Transition, 2d ed. Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1984.)
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
congressional committee chairmanships? Joshua Coval: Our original goal was to investigate how politically connected firms benefit from increases in the power of their representatives. A benefit in focusing on changes in committee... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
The Three HBS Alumni “Defining the 2016 Campaign”
article: Stephanie Hannon (MBA 2004), CTO for Hillary Clinton’s campaign and former product director at Google; Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995), COO of Facebook, who is “leveraging her influence with Lean In followers to mobilize female... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
solid data to answer the question of who mattered. So he made lists of US presidents and British prime ministers that dated back to George Washington in 1789 and Britain's Charles Grey in 1830. He noted how historians ranked them on performance, how much View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- Book Review
Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights
In a vitally important relationship famously caricatured as the "Mad Mullahs" v. the "Great Satan," the fraught negotiating history and future of Iran and the United States demands historical, cultural, and psychological insight if there is to be any prospect of... View Details
Sebenius, James K. "Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights." Negotiation Journal 27, no. 4 (October 2011): 493–497.
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
the Self-Made Myth" from his collection The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. Lincoln's struggle, Badaracco suggested, was not just with supporters of slavery in the south and skeptics in the north. It was also a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace