Publications

Educators

December 1982 (Revised December 1983)
Case

France (F): The Socialist Program for the 1980s

By: Bruce R. Scott

Keywords: Economy; Planning; Economic Systems; France

December 1974 (Revised December 1983)
Case

France (B): Formulation of the Fourth National Plan

By: Bruce R. Scott and Audrey T. Sproat

Keywords: Economy; Planning; France

10 Dec 2023
News

How to Help Change Happen Faster, with Frances Frei

14 Dec 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

Keywords: by Gunnar Trumbull

September 2011 (Revised November 2011)
Case

Liberté, Égalité, Sororité: How Should France Achieve Boardroom Parité?

By: Boris Groysberg and Hilary Fischer-Groban

The French government is considering mandating a gender quota for corporate boards. Other countries have approached the question of gender equity in corporate governance in various ways; which model might best work for France? View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Governing and Advisory Boards; Gender; Corporate Governance; France

Educators

September 1983
Case

National Industrial Planning: France and the EEC, Course Module

By: Bruce R. Scott and Audrey T. Sproat

Keywords: Economics; Planning; Economy; Policy; France; European Union

26 May 2021
News

Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace (with Frances Frei)

22 Mar 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France

Keywords: by Celine Braconnier, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons

January 2015
Case

Marie Trellu-Kane at Unis-Cité: Establishing Youth Service in France

By: Julie Battilana, Michel Anteby and Anne-Claire Pache

Marie Trellu-Kane is trying to decide how Unis-Cité should respond to French President Jacques Chirac's announcement in 2005 of a new national voluntary civil service program. Since 1994, Trellu-Kane and her co-founders had been creating and overseeing a civil service... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Leadership; Non-profit Management; Government And Business; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Design; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Social Enterprise; Paris

Educators

2014
Book

Consumer Lending in France and America: Credit and Welfare

By: Gunnar Trumbull

Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How did American policy makers by the late twentieth century come to believe that more credit would make even poor families better off? This book traces... View Details

Keywords: Attitudes; Credit; France; United States

February 2019 (Revised February 2022)
Teaching Note

Liberté, égalité, fragilité: The Rise of Populism in France

By: Vincent Pons

Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-052. View Details

August 2017
Article

Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France

By: Céline Braconnier, Jean-Yves Dormagen and Vincent Pons

A large-scale randomized experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one... View Details

Keywords: Elections; Politics; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; France