Voting - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Crowdfunding capital for small business

like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital.” Although the partners had been friends for four decades, they had never worked together before iCrowd. McGee, a US Navy veteran,... View Details

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

01 Jun 2000
News

World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector

in 1995 after a successful Wall Street career. In a unanimous board vote last fall, he became only the third Bank president to be reappointed to a second five-year term. Excerpts from his speech, "The Challenges Facing the World Bank in... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Bill Dunaway (MBA 1964)

After I heard what had happened, I ran up to my room and tore down the signs. As it happens, I had voted for Kennedy. It was a tragic, terrible thing. I thought I would stay in the retail drug business for the rest of my life. My advice... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2015
News

Fever Pitch

their favorite investment, while some 1,600 students and alumni voted on awards for impact and innovation among finalists from 14 global regions. Best Investment Selected by HBS Alumni Angels StreetShares (Mid-Atlantic US Region) Mickey... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Personal Services

01 Mar 2004
News

A Woman in the House

governor’s ascension to the top office. The former controller of Indianapolis was confirmed in a unanimous vote by both the State Senate and the House of Representatives. “Congratulations, senators. You just made history,” said Senate... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

07 Nov 2019
News

Scranton Elects First Female Mayor

As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent of the View Details

Keywords: politics; leadership; women; career paths; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

Brian Kenny: Here's a hypothetical for you. Imagine you're sitting at your favorite coffee shop when a teenager pulls up a chair and asks you to share a bunch of personal information. He wants to know your birthday, what kind of food you like, where you go on vacation,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

17 Oct 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Persuasion by Populist Propaganda: Evidence from the 2015 Argentine Ballotage

Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky

14 Jun 2024
News

Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details

17 Apr 2014
News

York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition

With online crowd votes from more than 1,200 alumni and MBA students, the winners of the 2014 alumni New Venture Competition have been crowned. Winner of the crowd-voted Most Innovative and Greatest Impact categories is York Street... View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

04 Sep 2019
News

Putting the Game Within Reach

every fan,” Rottenberg says. The more they interact with the league, the more Fan IQ points they rack up, thus unlocking greater voting privileges. It’s a video game come to life. After debuting a team in the Indoor Football League in... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Creating Change

worsen the other side’s no-agreement alternative. If people in the organization think the worse thing that can happen is that everything stays the same, it’s very hard to push change.” The alumni advocating for change filed a lawsuit that would have closed the club’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

2025
Working Paper

Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters

By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons and Emilie Sartre

Using data on the residential location and migration for every voter in U.S. states recording partisan registration between 2008–2020, we find that residential segregation between Democrats and Republicans has increased year over year at all geographic levels, from... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Geographic Location; Demographics

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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

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

voting lines. While currently, committee members were appointed by the governor, a Republican, the new proposal would allow equal representation by both parties. They then asked participants to predict on a 100-point scale how much... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

the firm in the future (the politicians and firms have a good history together), one can argue that the earnings management is "well spent." It is ambiguous, however, whether earnings management or other forms of political contributions actually... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
Supplement

Eddie Bauer (C)

By: Paul M. Healy, Sharon P. Katz and Aldo Sesia

The Eddie Bauer (C) case describes what happened and the outlook for the retailer. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Voting; Governing and Advisory Boards; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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31 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2016
News

Taking Care of Business

adapted and changed its model since launching in 2010, first crowning a single winner, then introducing multiple business tracks, and finally opting for three categories—most innovative, greatest impact, and best investment. New this year: added opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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