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- 2024
- Working Paper
Pitfalls of Demographic Forecasts of U.S. Elections
By: Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons and Jesse M. Shapiro
Many observers have forecast large partisan shifts in the US electorate based on demographic trends. Such forecasts are appealing because demographic trends are often predictable even over long horizons. We backtest demographic forecasts using data on US elections... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Voting; Political Elections; Trends; Forecasting and Prediction; Demographics
Calvo, Richard, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro. "Pitfalls of Demographic Forecasts of U.S. Elections." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33016, October 2024.
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- Web
Hacking AI with HBS IT | Information Technology
then voted for their favorites. The final presentations varied and included processes to analyze Outlook calendars and populate timecards, tools that will accurately summarize meeting notes and keep track of action items, and a tool to... 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
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board (TN)
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Suraj Srinivasan
Teaching Note for 109010. View Details
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
firm performance. Photo: iStockPhoto In place of those markers, Ma and Khanna used a different proxy of looking at which chair appoints a director, assuming that a social tie must exist between the two. Then they measured how the voting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 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
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
population thinks that democracy is broken, the system is rigged, their votes don’t count, and the only people who have sway are those with money and power. The idea that “nobody is paying attention to me and government is against me” is... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
sponsored is used. “It's using this technology to deepen the connection between the person who made the purchase and the actual giving that’s happened,” Matthews says. The Plus app will also let users vote to support beneficial social... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive risk-taking. The bill requires public companies to conduct annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 2019
- Working Paper
Persuasive Propaganda During the 2015 Argentine Ballotage
By: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
We study a propaganda campaign sponsored by the government against the main political challenger in the days preceding the 2015 Argentine runoff presidential election. Subjects in the treatment group watched an “ad” initially aired during soccer transmissions that was... View Details
Keywords: Propaganda; Persuasion; Voting; Political Elections; Government and Politics; Communication Strategy; Power and Influence; Public Opinion; Argentina
Di Tella, Rafael, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky. "Persuasive Propaganda During the 2015 Argentine Ballotage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-030, September 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
extra $4.5 billion in annual funding; a $100 million contingency fund for emergencies; and a $1 billion annual research and development fund to be coordinated by a Pandemic Product Development Committee. The annual World Health Assembly in Geneva, starting May 23, may... View Details
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Business Education & The Case Method | Baker Library
real-world business problems related to marketing. The book, Marketing Problems , was published in 1920 and provided material for class discussions. Donham also sought funding to support the research and writing of cases for use in HBS courses. In 1922, the Dean asked... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Case Study: A Place at the Table
by Carmen Nobel Taking Care of Business: Marlene Krauss, Mary Falvey, Annon Adams, and Vicki Keller, circa 1967. Photo courtesy of Baker Library historical collections, HBS In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to... View Details
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
Say on Pay (TN)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [407129]. View Details
- Portrait Project
Kate Aitken
I cast my first vote at age three. My mother hoisted me up to the lever. I clasped it in my tiny hands and yanked it to the left, sending the blue curtains of the polling booth flying open behind us. I knew from a young age that democracy... View Details
- 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
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
cast votes in public referenda. 13 By the early 1970s, with organizations like the RAND Corporation, The Brookings Institution, and the Sloan Commission all calling for more supportive regulation of cable, pressure for change was... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
is not in the best interest of their investors. For example, Vanguard has participated in proxy votes at shareholder meetings. While it has mostly voted in accordance with recommendations by management, in... View Details