Publications

December 2018 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Brand Activism: Nike and Colin Kaepernick

By: Jill Avery and Koen Pauwels

Nike's selection of politically polarizing Colin Kaepernick as the spokesperson for the 30th anniversary of its iconic "Just Do It" campaign catapulted the brand into the media spotlight and made it a political flashpoint for consumers across America. Would the choice... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Entertainment; Politics; Activism; Brand Equity; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Sports; Advertising; Social Media; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; North America

Educators

27 Sep 2021
News

Why Leaders Aren’t Powerful without This One Thing

14 Sep 2017
News

Harvard Business School’s Latest Case Study Looks at American Politics and Finds a Rigged System

2016
Book

Experiences in Liberal Arts and Science Education from America, Europe, and Asia: A Dialogue Across Continents

By: William C. Kirby and Marijk C. van der Wende

This book highlights the experiences of international leaders in liberal arts and science education from around the world as they discuss regional trends and models, with a specific focus on developments in and cooperation with China. Focusing on why this model... View Details

Keywords: International And Comparative Education; Educational Policy And Politics; Science Education; Arts; Global Range; Education; Science

Article

On the Political Economy of Temporary Stabilization Programs

By: Laura Alfaro

This paper provides a political economy explanation for temporary exchange-rate-based stabilization programs by focusing on the distributional effects of real exchange-rate appreciation. I propose an economy in which agents are endowed with either tradable or... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Economy; Balance and Stability; Programs; Currency Exchange Rate; Cash; Value; Distribution

October 2012 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (A)

By: Eric Werker, Onyechi Ezekwueche, Olatomiwa Igun and Alice Wei

In spite of its abundant energy resources, Nigeria in 2012 had one of the lowest levels of energy use in the world. Self-generation of power from costly generators was double that of grid-supplied electricity. The history of its power sector was one of inefficient... View Details

Keywords: Privatization; Energy; Nigeria

Educators

30 Sep 2015
News

The Power of Service

While studying at HBS, Jennifer Eplett Reilly (MBA 1990) was also working on the opening chapter of a remarkable social enterprise success story. “Our idea was to call upon diverse young people to give a year of service addressing the most pressing challenges of our... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

The Power of National Identity

proud of this distinction,” noted Abdelal, a scholar of international political economy and author of National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective, which won the 2002... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

Revealing: The Power of Sharing

Drawing on over a decade and a half of original research, this talk offers a striking new perspective on a fundamental yet under-explored aspect of our lives: how we decide how much to reveal about ourselves and others as we move through the world—and how our... View Details

2002
Book

The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932

By: Noel Maurer

Keywords: Money; Finance; System; History; Mexico

October 1991
Article

Power Balance and the Rationality of Outcomes in Matching Markets

By: H. Sondak and M. H. Bazerman

Keywords: Markets

1980
Chapter

Implications of Political Models of Organizations

By: M. Tushman and D. Nadler

Keywords: Government and Politics; Organizations

1997
Chapter

Negotiating Rationally: The Power and Impact of the Negotiator's Frame

By: M. A. Neale and M. H. Bazerman

Keywords: Negotiation Style; Negotiation Process

October 2011
Article

The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

This article provides a new, empirically driven application of the dynamic Mirrleesian framework by studying a feasible and potentially powerful tax reform: age-dependent labor income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Policy; Age; Income; Mathematical Methods; Welfare; United States

Read Now

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

(iStock) iStock SUMMING UP Does Diversity Really Enhance Performance? As I’ve pointed out in the past, a tenet of the MBA classroom is that if a case problem splits the class, it will produce a good discussion. This appears to have been what happened among respondents... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

November 2017 (Revised November 2017)
Teaching Note

Accounting for Political Risk at AES

By: Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Suraj Srinivasan

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 118-023 and 118-024. View Details