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  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

The New Venture Competition's Digital Democracy

winners will now face virtual judges, with online polling deciding the winners in two categories—each carrying a $25,000 prize. HBS alumni and students can visit the NVC site to learn about the finalists and watch their video pitches. Then on April 1, the virtual polls... View Details
Keywords: New Venture Competition
  • Article

Comment mobiliser les exclus du jeu politique?

By: Vincent Pons
Keywords: Elections; Voter Mobilization; France; Voting; Political Elections; France
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

What Else Do Shareholders Want? Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management

By: Eugene F. Soltes, Suraj Srinivasan and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
Shareholder proposals provide investors an opportunity to exercise their decision rights within firms, but managers can seek permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to dismiss proposals. We find that managers seek to exclude 39% of all proposals... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Editor's Note:  Millions of Brits are going to the polls today to take part in an historic vote on the European Union that will have a huge impact on the economic, political, and social future of the United Kingdom and its relationships... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
  • Web

1.8 Academic Honors | MBA

appointed to ensure appropriate equitable application of MBA Program standards. At the APC's discretion, each group shall comprise between 15% to 20% of the class. The award of honors is then voted on by the faculty, with the faculty... View Details
  • 23 Feb 2021
  • News

Dan Koh Named Labor Department’s Chief of Staff

vote by the Senate has not been scheduled yet, but his nomination was recently advanced by a bipartisan committee vote and is expected to pass. Editor's note: In more news from Boston City Hall,... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

    Alex Jiang

    Alex Jiang cofounded Alpha Startup Fund in 2015 and builds Alpha Startups into one of the leading early stage venture funds in China. Alpha Startups invests in AI, IoT, enterprise solutions and consumer internet. It was voted by leading... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#20;#Ecommerce;#75;#Venture Capital;#47;#International Development
    • Web

    Regulation and Compliance | Working Knowledge

    Regulation and Compliance Explore complex global issues in this collection on regulation and compliance, from navigating Asia's authoritarian regimes and political influence on voting to ethical dilemmas in corporate America and solutions... View Details
    • 11 Jan 2021
    • News

    Strengthening Democracy

    Image credit: Dan Bejar ALUMNI One Paramount Priority Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) on how to preserve the republic after the election A More Perfect Union America’s faith in democracy is fading. Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001) is leading a group of alumni in an ambitious... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Jessica Reid

    I'd like to hold many titles throughout my life, MBA, CEO, daughter, sister, aunt, wife, and mother -- but if I had to pick only one, I would choose "Teacher of the Year." Every year in elementary school, we would vote for the... View Details

      Robert L. Vann

      well as garnering the black vote for a myriad of political campaigns. The Courier grew tremendously under Vann, reaching a circulation level of 250,000 by 1938 as one of very few truly national black newspapers. View Details
      Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021

      By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen and Vincent Pons
      We ask how childhood environment shapes political behavior. We measure young voters’ participation and party affiliation in nationally comprehensive voter files and reconstruct their childhood location histories based on their parents’ addresses. We compare outcomes of... View Details
      Keywords: Political Parties; Government and Politics; Age; Residency; Voting
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      • January 2019
      • Article

      Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France

      By: Vincent Pons and Guillaume Liegey
      Improving the political participation of immigrants could advance their interests and foster their integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010... View Details
      Keywords: Electoral Behavior; Immigrants; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; France
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      • 28 Jan 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

      October working paper The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of Multi-Channel Marketing in US Presidential Elections, was cowritten with HBS doctoral student Lingling Zhang. Chung and Zhang pored over 18,650 observations on View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • 01 Dec 2006
      • News

      MBA vs. MBA

      listened to voters' concerns. COURTESY CHET EDWARDS FOR CONGRESS ; ROD AYDELOTTE/WACO TRIBUNE-HERALD Edwards, 54, a career politician, has survived tough challengers before. In the 2004 election he won 51 percent of the vote in a district... View Details
      Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
      • 12 Nov 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      The Marketing of a President

      meant that change was in the air. Add to that the economic meltdown that decimated millions of 401(k) retirement plans and undercut any Republican claim to be the better steward of the economy. But, even so, for an inexperienced, single-term, African-American senator... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch
      • 11 Oct 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

      statement, in which case shareholders can vote on whether the company should adopt the change; negotiate with the shareholder to come up with a mutually acceptable solution to the beef; or formally contest the shareholder’s proposal by... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

        Henry S. Dennison

        were issued preferred (non-voting) stock, and working managers controlled voting stock. From 1917 to 1951, Dennison Manufacturing’s sales increased from $3.5 million to over $37 million. View Details
        Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
        • 01 Jun 2016
        • News

        Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

        impact of a robust get out the vote effort. The trio visited the country multiple times to develop and roll out a text message campaign to encourage voting, which ultimately reached 2 million—about 40 percent—of Kenya’s registered voters.... View Details
        Keywords: Erin Peterson
        • 27 Oct 2014
        • News

        Supporting new art by bringing private funding to public museums and spaces

        or even two steps removed from the artists themselves,” says Evans. “At VIA, we work directly with artists, meeting as a group to learn, discuss, and vote on which projects we will support.” Since she launched VIA in 2013 with cofounder... View Details