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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
have been the plan, because nobody thought that was possible. But someone spent tens of thousands of dollars—that’s a rounding error in grand strategy—posting nonsense on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and the so-called paragon of View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
upheaval - financial collapse, peasant uprisings, and political violence. What's going on? Some people see the repression in Mexico's political system and call the system authoritarian. Others see its freedoms and label it an emerging democracy. Both are right - Mexico... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
its open society and “messy,” yet functioning, market-based democracy as a more conducive environment for long-term development. Its Western-style legal system and transparent financial systems encourage a chaotic, bottom-up approach to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
changes in China have been more dramatic than people realize. Second, democracy in China is inevitable. Third, these economic reforms have been political, cultural, and, above all, global processes. Understanding these developments tells... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Research Brief: Pocket Change
Illustration by Jim Frazier Women and ethnic minorities donate small amounts of money to political candidates in ways that have helped to democratize the American electoral process, suggests Associate Professor Vincent Pons. In his “Small Campaign Donors” paper, Pons... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
actor managed to put in place. They aimed for a participatory democracy where women and men govern together. Women are co-heads of every town they govern. A women’s council was created in every town these fighters took back. It is the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
Africa to Liberia, she saw firsthand what it means for a democracy to exist in name only and grew an appreciation for those who dedicate themselves to building a representative democracy. Ballou-Aares hopes that by the time her two... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
that is out of bounds in the consumer marketplace. — John A. Quelch is senior associate dean at HBS and a marketing expert. Katherine E. Jocz is an HBS research associate. They are the authors of Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
entered Massachusetts politics. Having finished Spearheads of Democracy (inspired by his Labor Department duties, which had taken him to Latin America, Africa, and Asia), he decided to leave the School to run for the U.S. Senate as the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
by Maureen Harmon Blaine Favel Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) grew up on Cree Indian reservation. His father was a chief, as was his grandfather before him. "It was a true democracy back then," says Favel, when a chief served at the will of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
advocacy organization. “I am no longer a racehorse trapped in a barn,” he writes. “I see a great deal of what is wrong with our economy and our world, and I want to join those who are seeking to renew democracy and to transform our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
democracy in 2008. We had contacts throughout Southeast Asia thanks to past volunteer work; eventually we were fortunate enough to connect with Tenzing Yonten, an incredible Bhutanese with degrees from Berkeley and Yale, who was ready to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
headquarters is named after him, for instance—attest to his many contributions to the world of business, as do his outside activities, including presenting papers on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and democracy throughout the world... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
contract, and they know this can breed violence and terrorism. Their democracies seem unable to adopt appropriate remedies. In Asia, they are mostly sanguine about economic growth. But there is concern about the environment, particularly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
bailed out at the expense of taxpayers. As George Soros argued in his book The Crisis of Global Capitalism: “Capitalism and democracy obey different rules.... The interests that are supposed to be served are different: in capitalism it is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again. View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
democracy working together created prosperity for about a billion people around the world. The challenge ahead is to ensure that the other 8 billion people on the planet are brought into this circle as well. Our ability to educate leaders... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
educators. Working from his home overlooking Seattle's Elliott Bay, Nielsen is now writing a book espousing some of his more radical thoughts on education, including the elimination of both age-based grade placement and grade-based performance assessment. The stakes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
women not wanting to be beaten up, opportunity for their kids” (USA Today, September 27, 2004). Democracy and transparency are not always transferable because of cultural and historical factors, Wolfensohn asserted, but they are “probably... View Details