Power And Politics - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2013 (Revised November 2016)
Case

Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa

By: Geoffrey Jones and Elliot R. Benton

This case considers the strategies of Charles W. Engelhard, an American mining magnate who made large investments in apartheid-era South Africa. Engelhard was widely believed to have been the model for the James Bond villan Auric Goldfinger. During the 1950s and 1960s... View Details

Keywords: Political Economy; Business History; FDI; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; South Africa; Mining; Ethics; Globalization; Government and Politics; History; Mining Industry; Africa; South Africa

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1996
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Staying Afloat in the Construction Industry: Economic and Political Trends for the 1990s

By: D. Q. Mills

Keywords: Construction; Business History; Construction Industry

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March 2009 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Zopa: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo and David Chen

Zopa, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer lending company, connected individual lenders and borrowers via an online interface. The company charged a small fee for completed loan transactions but has not turned a profit. Zopa offered two platforms, Markets and Listings. Markets... View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom

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Apr 25 2012
Testimonial

The Power of the OPM Network

1988
Book

In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power

By: S. Zuboff

Keywords: Power and Influence; Information Technology

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26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

careers and businesses all the time. The power of the noncompete clause has led to a unique Harvard Business School paper with implications for day-to-day behavior, careers, business, View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 May 2020
News

The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

September 2022
Teaching Note

Applied Intuition: Powering Autonomy at Scale

By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 722-407. View Details

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01 Dec 2002
News

HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

Cochairs Herman Bulls (MBA '85) and Ken Bacon (MBA '82) worked closely with Honorary Chair Dennis Hightower (MBA '74) and a program committee led by Jacqueline Adams (MBA '78) View Details

13 May 2014
News

Harnessing the Power of Peer Pressure

Keywords: social data; peer pressure; product launch; consumer behavior

February 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Atlantic Energy/Delmarva Power & Light (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mathew M Millett and Tracy Aronson

Keywords: Energy Industry; Utilities Industry

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13 Dec 2015
News

Amy Cuddy strikes a power pose

2019
Book

The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie

The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Technology; Platform; Internet and the Web; Management; Competitive Strategy; Digital Platforms

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TeachingInterests

Business, Government and the International Economy

By: Dante Roscini

Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) is a course about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external... View Details

22 Jun 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Surprising Power of Age-Dependent Taxes

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

2021
Working Paper

Caccia Selvaggia: Myth, Rites, and the Right in Carlo Ginzburg's Storia notturna

By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert

Carlo Ginzburg (b. 1939) is widely considered one of Europe’s leading historians. His masterpiece Storia notturna (Turin: Einaudi, 1989), widely praised for its extraordinary erudition and creativity, is now over three decades old but it continues to inspire... View Details

Keywords: Mythology; Culture; Political Doctrine; History; Government and Politics; Society

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2025
Working Paper

Global Harms, Local Profits: How the Uneven Costs of Natural Disasters Affect Support for Green Political Platforms

By: Silvia Pianta and Paula Rettl

Large-scale fires are becoming increasingly common due to climate change. While conventional wisdom suggests that firsthand experiences with natural disasters foster green coalitions by raising awareness of environmental degradation, we propose an alternative... View Details