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- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
platforms. “How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers” was the most-read story on Working Knowledge in 2016. Other popular topics among our readers included workplace communication, negotiation, white-collar crime, and, of course, the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
Brown, Jacob R., Enrico Cantoni, Vincent Pons, and Emilie Sartre. "Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33422, January 2025.
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
engineers. “To be an effective team leader, you have to be pretty much ego-less,” notes the friendly, optimistic, and articulate Sanchez, who was voted Section C president. “I like being on the playing field with the rest of the group,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
HSBC. According to Oberholzer-Gee, about half the students voted for UBS to maintain emissions at 2005 levels; he says that these students tend to take the rational approach that it’s fine to spend $100 on insulating a building if that... 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
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
Target Corporation: Ackman versus the Board (TN)
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Suraj Srinivasan
Teaching Note for 109010. View Details
- 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
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
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
the 1990s. In order to attract investors, the founders of companies organized before 1910 often included in the statutes stronger protections for small shareholders than what was mandated by law. The most important of these protections were maximum View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Reconstruction efforts in former Confederacy 1869 Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor and Colored National Labor Union formed 1870 15th Amendment to the Constitution adopted; the right to vote may not be abrogated by color 1873... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Nigerians. It could lay out its management plan as part of its election campaign, and voters would take that into account in making their decision. Why would locals vote for a foreigner? If they felt it was their only option to get out of... View Details
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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
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
company statutes and shareholder lists, reveals that the addition of voting rights to their bylaws, particularly maximum vote provisions and graduated voting scales (which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
bipartisan furor ensued. The House has voted to overturn some of the agency’s decision. What’s going on? Until June 2, FCC rules decreed that no television network could own local stations that, in aggregate, reached more than 35 percent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Moving Day 2012
capacity to love,” Sternlight urged his classmates. “Figure out your purpose and pursue it with everything you have.” Another highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of faculty teaching awards, as voted by the Class of 2012.... 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