politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

comparison concerns a central activity of citizenship, which is participation in the political and legislative processes. Publisher's link: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15241.html August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

Navalny the right figure for business leaders in Russia to organize around? What were the risks of getting involved with a politically volatile activist? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112033-PDF-ENG McKesson... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

built international political and military coalitions, and negotiated a U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing "all necessary means" to eject Iraq from Kuwait. Only after these steps were taken did the Bush administration... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

gave government officials enormous power and prestige. In fact, bureaucrats in MITI [the Ministry of International Trade and Industry] were much more powerful than the elected political leaders—who had little real influence on policy.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

25 Mar 2025
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

of leaders who have been in the space for decades, reminding the hundreds of future leaders in attendance that regardless of the political landscape, this movement has been growing for decades and has gained significant support, so we... View Details

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

factors in determining performance. In other words, successful companies in China or Thailand look a lot like other successful companies regardless of where they are located, and regardless of their country's political and economic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

understand MPVs, discount rates, and CapEx; Business, Government & the International Economy helped me consider the regulatory and political elements of the market; and lessons from Strategy allowed me to better evaluate questions... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

13 Feb 2015
News

Lessons in Perseverance

that later in life.” Initially, she began on the sly by saving money provided by her husband for groceries, in order to make the garage suitable for the nursery school. When he saw its success, he got on board and bankrolled the establishment of other schools. Peru’s... View Details

Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

who'd worked their way up through the trenches, breadwinners. Since the rejiggering of the American economy beginning in the early 1980s, the man-of-action hero is back and more than ever he is found in business rather than politics or... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

public knowledge. She is also the Director of the Women's Media Center Speech Project and an advocate for women's freedom of expression and expanded civic and political engagement. She currently serves on the national boards of the... View Details

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

Education.” I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call. Bill Kirby is a historian who examines contemporary China's business, economic and political development in an international context. In addition to many books and... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

selection and impact is important to both researchers and practitioners. This paper introduces Leader Filtration Theory (LFT)-a theory from political science-to managerial audiences, applies it to organizations, and uses it to improve our... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

would think of. PETER STONE, 28 Modesto, California BA, Political Science and Government, Brigham Young University Peter has traveled to 45 countries; next stop is Australia. Recent adventures: the HBS India Trek and a trip to Vietnam and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

July 2020
Technical Note

Digital Natives Growing Without a Sales Force

By: Das Narayandas, Michael Norris and Amram Migdal

This brief case describes the rise of so-called digital natives (also called born-in-digital) in the 2000s and 2010s that successfully grew without a sales force. The case highlights the emergence of business-to-business Internet and cloud-based companies and their... View Details

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June 2020 (Revised January 2024)
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TraceTogether

By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta

By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore’s... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore

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October 2020 (Revised November 2023)
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COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull

In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in at-home lab testing. After making dramatic budget cuts, she decides to pivot the organization to address the... View Details

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November 2024 (Revised May 2025)
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Indonesia Education Reform: Merdeka Belajar ('Emancipated Learning')

By: John Jong-Hyun Kim, Adina Wong, Nancy Hua Dai and Mary C. Sauer

This case is set in 2024 in Indonesia, as Nadiem Makarim, Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, reflects on his tenure as Minister shortly before stepping down. With the ambition to lift Indonesia out of the middle-income gap by raising K12 to... View Details

Keywords: Education; Change Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Government Administration; Leading Change; Innovation Strategy; Development Economics; Education Industry; Asia; Indonesia

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March 2011
Teaching Note

Valuation of AirThread Connections (Brief Case)

By: Erik Stafford and Joel L. Heilprin

Teaching note for case #4263. View Details

Keywords: Present Value; Tax Accounting; Capital Costs; Synergy; Telephony; Wireless Technologies; Assets; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Communication; Taxation; Accounting; Wireless Technology

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2011
Working Paper

Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.

Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as reflected in its inclusion among "tax expenditures" and occasional calls for its repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Investment Return; Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Policy; Taxation; United States

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