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- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
process, focuses on the political actors that might enter into this process. Specifically, we suggest that private firms be allowed to compete in elections to hold public office. That is, a corporate entity (e.g., Ernst and Young), rather... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
expanded into consumer research and election forecasting. In 2019, Gupta found that his team’s prediction for an election result was distinctly different from all other pollsters. As Gupta reviewed his... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008
Working PapersAccounting Information as Political Currency Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract We test whether accounting can be used as political currency. Our setting is the US congressional election of 2004,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
decide on ways to grow the business. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618012 Harvard Business School Case 318-019 Uruguay: Facing the 21st Century In the fall of 2017, self-made business leader Edgardo Novick pondered his campaign to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S. corporations and argues that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
Comstat model developed by the New York City Police Department in the 1990s, to take a problem-solving approach to improving student results. All of these efforts are complicated by the environment in which districts operate—their elected... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
risk of adverse effects that arise from taking a single approach. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49334 Working Papers Selling to a Moving Target: Dynamic Marketing Effects in U.S. Presidential Elections... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
demography, and change management. Cases & Course MaterialsCongressional Candidate Ron Klein and KNP Communications Amy J.C. Cuddy and Nithyasri SharmaHarvard Business School Case 910-013 In the 2006 election cycle, Ron Klein was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
electoral redistribution yields a compelling framework to test for the presence of capture. I find that government-owned banks are subject to substantial capture: the growth rate of agricultural credit lent by public banks is 5-10 percentage points higher in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
around a tenth of Rio Tinto's profits and over a quarter of Mongolia's GDP. But the terms of the deal were being threatened by elections in Mongolia and a change in voter sentiment towards the project. With around $6 billion invested, Rio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
Jr., who teaches the MBA elective The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature, adds, "What we're seeing is an increasingly felt need for people to integrate the spiritual dimension of their lives into what they... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
gains. Change is afoot, but the direction in which we move will be a function of the election and the prevailing sense of Americans toward globalization and the foreign activities of their firms. It should be interesting. Q: What do you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
the city an opportunity to rebuild its low-performing public school system. What led you to do this research and teach case studies on this subject? Stacey Childress: I developed and teach an MBA elective course at HBS called... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
For every winner in a zero-sum contest, there is a loser. Thus if the environment wins, the company loses, and vice versa. That view is prevalent in part because it fits with the widespread perception that environmental problems are political or moral issues. View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
from shareholders than directors in a benchmark sample. They are also more likely than other independent directors to leave sued firms. Overall, shareholders use litigation along with director elections and director retention to hold some... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
second of two main modules in the HBS elective curriculum course, The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME). This module is focused on policies, such as taxes, that change the distribution of economic outcomes. Like the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations Authors:Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Sucher Publication: Routledge, 2007 Abstract This book is a comprehensive, practical manual to help instructors integrate moral leadership in their own courses, drawing from the experience and resources of the Harvard Business School course "The Moral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
Werker Abstract Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace