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Elsa Sze

newspaper. “I noticed a gap between what we talk about in class and what we do outside of class,” she says. “Leadership takes a willingness to speak up; the courage to be the first to raise your hand.” Ultimately, Elsa would like a career role in which she can View Details
  • 09 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)

the summer influenced your thinking on future involvement in social enterprise? My work this summer has reinforced my belief in the foundational power of education to break the cycle of poverty. Working with diverse stakeholders has... View Details
  • December 2011
  • Article

Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

By: Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Private Sector; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; Interest Rates; Business and Government Relations; Investment; Employment; Power and Influence
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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

sixteenth to the nineteenth century. It is divided into the following general subject categories: views of stock exchanges, banks, mints, and treasuries; portraits of bankers, statesmen, and financiers; political and personal satires;... View Details
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

great principles in economics: the concept of comparative advantage and how it influences everything from nations to house painters. —Sean Silverthorne book excerpt A Brief Aside On The Theory Of Comparative Advantage From A Concise Guide... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
  • 06 Mar 2006
  • What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

would have significant leverage in forcing change. Others may conclude that staying is the only course of action, whether or not efforts are made to influence government policies. This line of thought holds that a management's first... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

(Ivy) Onyeador Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizations Department at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Understanding peoples' reactions to group-based inequality As the United States reassesses its legal, View Details
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

  PublicationsThe Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Publication:American Economic Journal:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

researchers then analyzed the data, totaling some 12,000 daily diaries, looking for commonalities that influenced "inner work life," which the book defines as "the confluence of perceptions, emotions, and motivations that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

lyrics of most U2 songs. "It was like a huge baptism," she says, referring to the Christian ethos of some of the music, alongside the political and social messages of songs like "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (violence in Northern Ireland),... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • September 2007 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

Norway Sells Wal-Mart

By: Robert C. Pozen and Aldo Sesia
In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest its position in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. after an investigation by the Fund's Ethics Council. According to a spokesperson of Norway's Finance Ministry, "The recommendation to exclude Wal-Mart cites serious and... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Ethics; Insurance; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Government and Politics; Rights; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Power and Influence; Retail Industry; Norway
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  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World Bank project quality suffers as a consequence of political influence only when the recipient country is economically vulnerable in the first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues

were holding, which could save many lives, cost just ten cents per package. In introducing the panelists, who represented a variety of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Levy said that "NGOs are critical sources of information and catalysts for change" and that... View Details
Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

exposure to political risks reduces domestic leverage by 4.4% of its mean level. Foreign political risks most strongly influence the capital structures of firms in industries... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

These service requests are then visualized on Code for America's Daily Brief website, which Buell and Norton used in their experiment. The researchers worked with the organization to pilot several versions of the website, each with different visualizations of this... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Mar 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

the US and China.” But ProfPaul views this as a long-shot. As he put it, “China remains committed to its own economic and political advancement at the expense of its trade partners. It has never expressed a compelling world view that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

creation of jobs and attracting investment, said Bruce Bolnick, a fellow in Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. However, he did not agree that business should have a free hand in directly influencing grand economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

influences strategic decision-making, little is known about its impact on ascriptive inequality. This study proposes a performance effect on racial bias: higher team performance reduces managers’ performance pressure and, therefore, leads... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

back from our discussions and considered what was being said, it was clear that the golden goose—global market capitalism—was at risk from the impact of an interrelated set of forces more powerful than the economic and political... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine