Polarization - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

Private equity buyouts are a polarizing financial prospect. One need only look at the name of the recent bill that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced to regulate private equity in the United States—the “Stop Wall Street Looting... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

organizations tended to be created for the purpose of marketing countries as investment sites and not with the primary objectives of screening investment or negotiating with investors. Governments can adopt two polar positions in their... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

15 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

tax. The people [the president is] talking about taxing are the very people that we expect to reinvest in our economy and to create jobs." With the Presidential election of 2016 around the corner and political polarization at peak... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

Harvard Business School. “Even in this politicized, polarized environment that our country finds itself in, people value accuracy.” Ultimately, Jordan’s research casts doubt on the idea that reputational motivations, and in particular the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

11 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

The children's classic The Polar Express tells the fanciful story of a young boy's journey to the North Pole on a train filled with chocolate and candy. But when Warner Brothers released a $165 million computer-animated version of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Even as polarized political discussion appears to have frozen the possibility of compromise, new research suggests that divided sides can come together on many issues to make decisions. “Our research finds that inaccurate beliefs really... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

Like: Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

As a polarizing US presidential election nears, moderating controversial content on social media poses a pressing problem for tech giants. But no matter how many employees they hire, lines of code they write, or new content policies they... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

20 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

about “content moderation”—not for the easy topics like spam or copyright material—but for the hard things revolving around political points of view, hate speech, polarizing perspectives, etc. How will Facebook strike the balance between... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

essentially treats them as means to an end. Why is that? Among other things, Pfeffer speculates that one reason is that we assume correctly that polar bears can't do much to affect their own well-being. Humans, on the other hand, can take... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

result, write the authors, is a polarized government unable to compromise to solve the nation's greatest problems or realize its highest aspirations. The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?

these vaccines. Kost: How can regulators maintain confidence in the drug review process, especially during such a politically polarized time? Cohen: That is probably the hardest question. I don't know the right answer. They’re between a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Pharmaceutical; Health

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

Publications Blind Ethics: Closing One's Eyes Polarizes Moral Judgment and Discourages Dishonest Behavior Authors: E. M. Caruso and F. Gino Publication: Cognition (forthcoming) Abstract Four experiments demonstrate that closing one's eyes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

discuss the core challenges of fighting global carbon dioxide emissions in a shortsighted, ideologically polarized environment. To his mind, both in Europe and in the United States, government efforts to regulate carbon emissions have... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

added: "Predictive analytics could (provide) such specialized, repetitive solutions that society will become polarized into user niches that can no longer properly interact What a sad state of affairs." Philippe Gouamba... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 May 2016
What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

million polar research ship. Johnson, the U.K. Government’s Science Minister responsible for, among other things, NERC, sought to get the effort off on the right inspirational foot by saying: “Can you imagine one of the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

warming, rapid melting of polar ice, and an increasingly fragile ecosystem where infectious diseases of all kinds are more likely to be successful, we run greater risks of all sorts of perils," says Froot. "In some cases—such as... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

the latter are paragons of process virtue. For example, it is quite possible that as many mistakes were made in the celebrated 1997 Pathfinder mission as were made in the failed 1999 Polar Lander mission. But we will never know. By not... View Details