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  • Mar 2012
  • Article

Choosing the United States

A location decision is, in many respects, a referendum on a nation's competitiveness. When a company decides, say, to build a new plant in China rather than in the United States, it is effectively voting on the question of which country... View Details
  • 13 May 2013
  • News

The Power of Three

record, raising $4,000,835. To demonstrate their commitment and to inspire their classmates, the trio led the way with major contributions of their own. “I personally benefited from a fellowship that allowed me to go to HBS,” Dias Griffin explains. “It was an... View Details
  • 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
  • Portrait Project

Elsa Sze

campaign flyers we've been handing out. "I'm sure you'll be President one day! I'll vote for you, Antonio!" I've lied. I know the stats. A boy from this place is half as likely to finish school and twice as likely to be jobless,... View Details
  • 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
  • Article

Do Citizens’ Preferences Matter? Shaping Legislator Attitudes Towards Peace Agreements

By: Miguel García-Sánchez, Aila M. Matanock and Natalia Garbiras-Díaz
To what extent are legislators, responsible for the implementation of many peace agreements, responsive to citizens’ preferences? Examining the 2016 Colombian peace agreement, we embed an experiment in the 2019 wave of a survey of all the members of Congress. We inform... View Details
Keywords: Legislation; Legislators; Peace Process; Agreements; Govenment; Voters' Interests; Governance; Government and Politics; Voting; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Latin America; Colombia
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • 13 Dec 2017
  • News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

and on and on and said this is not normal. This is a pattern of corruption. And it was shocking to me how much people—ultimately, many people ultimately said, I think I'd rather vote for Donald Trump than for someone like that. It was an... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Connecting people and policymakers in a conversation online

address a social problem. Sze accomplished this by founding The Agora, “an online town hall for all” to give more people a louder voice—one heard directly by elected officials and other policy makers. “Democracies are not as democratic as they should be,” says Sze.... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Trouble in Mouse Land

several board members. “Saving Disney,” by HBS assistant professor Nancy Beaulieu, tells the story behind their efforts, following the timeline of events from Eisner’s arrival at Disney to a historic shareholder vote in March 2004, when... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Patch Work

The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar
  • 31 Oct 2007
  • HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

provide an innovative, positive story for the public and cost $6.4 to $8.6 million; and a 100 percent reduction would cost $9.1 to $11.3 million and match industry leader HSBC. According to Oberholzer-Gee, about half the students voted... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • Web

Foreword | Baker Library

Business Education for Women at Harvard University, 1937—1970 traces the programs and events that led to the 1962 HBS faculty vote to admit women directly into the full MBA program. These programs and their graduates broke new ground for... View Details
  • Web

Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

WAVE received an early vote of confidence when it was added to the foundation’s portfolio. “Almost all of our other funders have come through connections with the DRKF,” says Rewane. “We can thank the Social Enterprise Initiative and the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Ronald P. Mitchell

for partnership between the faculty, staff, and students." Even as an undergraduate at Harvard, team leadership came naturally to Mitchell. He was a two-time captain of the varsity basketball team, was voted the team's most valuable... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • May 2010
  • Teaching Note

Say on Pay (TN)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [407129]. View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Voting; Executive Compensation; United States
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  • April 2011
  • Teaching Note

Congressional Candidate Dan Silver and KNP Communications (TN)

By: Amy J.C. Cuddy and Nithyasri Sharma
Teaching Note for 910013. View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; Voting; Personal Characteristics; Competency and Skills; Reputation; Consulting Industry
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  • 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