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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
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
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
right, it could have profound implications for the role of leadership in organizations. And it should provide some comfort to all who, like Americans this month, vote to elect their leaders. In addition to being reasonably informed and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
This speaks to a very large leaky pipe, into which the government is pouring more resources in the futile hope that the pipe repairs itself. The fear is that this is an election sop, before next year's national elections, in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is significant cross-sectional targeting, with large increases in districts in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Fall, 2024
- Article
Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls
By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the goals... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Race; Political Elections; Voting; Policy; Outcome or Result; Government Legislation
Bernini, Andrea, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini, and Cecilia Testa. "Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls." Oxford Review of Economic Policy 40, no. 3 (Fall, 2024): 486–497.
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
intermediate markets. Our comparative analysis suggests that firms elect the strategy of vertically permeable boundaries when they face low transaction costs and high rates of product innovation, but at the same time believe there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
timely and valid Section 83(b) elections if the founders adopt vesting as part of the equity split. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809110 Orange: Read&Go Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
build a scholarly community that reflects what is happening in the broader world while creating new learning materials for students and practitioners." Iansiti and Lakhani's MBA elective course Digital Innovation and Transformation... View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
Question the Right Way," is available for download [PDF]. Todd Rogers, now Executive Director of the Analyst Institute, explained more. Martha Lagace: What observations or experiences got you interested in studying conversational blindness? Was it inspired by the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School and an expert in technology strategy. So when Yoffie began a three-year effort to update an HBS elective course on strategy development in... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
latest e-commerce enterprise. And in a new MBA elective course he has developed, Large-Scale Investment, Esty examines how private firms structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind (or greenfield) projects. "Although the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
G19 + 1. For business leaders, the early optimism following Trump’s election that corporate taxes would be reduced, America’s infrastructure would be improved, and an improved healthcare system would be created has faded away. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
have their director candidates' names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident shareholders now must send out their own ballots); puts an end to staggered boards at all companies (boards traditionally elect one-third of... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
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
- 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
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
readers, tell us what you think were the most significant trends, ideas, or management lessons from 2015. Then look ahead to next year. How do you think the 2016 presidential election will change the American economy? Will there be... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, essentially argues that the most important things are not predictable anyway, so why obsess about predictions. Silver's predictions of specific outcomes in the 2008 and 2012 US elections were... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
owners and actively engage with boards. To start, in the nomination and election process, shareholders could signal their support (endorsement, neutrality, or nonendorsement) for candidates the board puts forth and vote accordingly. If... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
pay high coupons—typically, two-digit interest rates—for up to 30 years," Vallée explains. The researchers set out to find out why so many local politicians took out toxic loans in the first place—and whether they understood the stakes. Political Incentives To test... View Details