Election Outcomes - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2015
News

Research Brief: Political Capital

And if John Kerry had made a push for independents and upped his spending on ads by roughly 50 percent in Iowa and 80 percent in Ohio, he would have secured the two states, their 27 electoral votes, and the presidency. Ultimately, Chung says that while the ground game... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

elective Founders' Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. Read an excerpt from The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Apr 2002
News

Breakthrough International Negotiation

Susan Rosegrant urge business leaders to learn from the lessons of negotiators who have helped to shape recent world history. Watkins, who teaches the popular HBS elective Corporate Diplomacy, worked with Rosegrant, a political case... View Details

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Susan Rosegrant; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

31 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

outcomes (through, for example, market-mediated trading systems, so-called "decision markets," for predicting the outcomes of things such as presidential elections... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

current system thwarted union organizing? A union election is supposed to be the expression of the employees’ desires to bargain collectively and choose their own representatives. Yet, the law allows employers to require employees to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

17 Nov 2016
News

Wired for Innovation

districts in Texas. Let’s just say the outcome of the election was that I was the recipient of the silver medal!” he reveals with a rueful laugh. By all indications, the defeat did little to dampen Skelly’s... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Profile

Andrew Baxter

up personal capital by sharing common experiences. Building common ground improved outcomes significantly!" Finding ways to effect change Andrew began his career in fossil fuels – but he doesn't want it to end there. "As I... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech

Web

2.1.4 Academic Retaliation | MBA

student and relevant faculty member in an attempt to resolve the matter informally. A matter will be deemed satisfactorily resolved when both parties expressly agree, in writing, to an outcome that is also acceptable to the individual or... View Details

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

to leave sued firms. Overall, shareholders use litigation along with director elections and director retention to hold some independent directors more accountable than others when firms experience financial fraud. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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

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19 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

“Allowing owners to have more power and influence in corporate board elections seems to be valuable.” In August 2010, the US Securities and Exchange Commission passed Rule 14a-11, also known as the shareholder proxy access rule, which... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

it for the first time last December in the elective course Managing International Trade and Investment. Some said flatly that they would walk away from the deal, while others thought that it was a worthwhile risk to take, particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

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2.8 MBA Community Values Annual Report (2023) | MBA

faculty alone has the right and obligation to set academic requirements, students and faculty will work together to establish optimal conditions for honorable academic work. Role of Community Values Representatives Early in the fall semester, each new MBA section View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Slum for Sale

but in July 2009, the government postponed the call for bids just a few hours before deadline.) The case elicited a broad range of student responses when HBS associate professor Gunnar Trumbull taught it for the first time last December in the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

development banks, and UN agencies. Overall, the researchers say, the World Bank is quite well run—the issue is one of misgovernance, not malfeasance. "Ashwin and I highlight a setting in which fair institutions can generate unfair View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

exploration and exploitation has drawn substantial interest from scholars studying phenomena such as organizational learning, knowledge management, innovation, organizational design, and strategic alliances. This framework has become an essential lens for interpreting... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality output in the context of uncontroversial and verifiable information, it is unclear whether this production model will produce any desirable outcome... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and... View Details