Voting Behavior - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
News

Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

impact of a robust get out the vote effort. The trio visited the country multiple times to develop and roll out a text message campaign to encourage voting, which ultimately reached 2 million—about 40 percent—of Kenya’s registered voters.... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

Brochet, Francois, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract—We examine which independent directors are held accountable when investors sue firms for financial- and disclosure-related fraud. Investors can name independent directors as defendants in lawsuits, and they can View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Mar 2003
News

Fighting Back from a Knockout

bit of tarnish. Thanks to years of mismanagement by the administration he was voted to replace, Cranston’s bond rating was reduced to B, the lowest of any municipality in America. In an opinion piece in the Providence Journal (November... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

listened to voters' concerns. COURTESY CHET EDWARDS FOR CONGRESS ; ROD AYDELOTTE/WACO TRIBUNE-HERALD Edwards, 54, a career politician, has survived tough challengers before. In the 2004 election he won 51 percent of the vote in a district... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

October working paper The Air War versus The Ground Game: An Analysis of Multi-Channel Marketing in US Presidential Elections, was cowritten with HBS doctoral student Lingling Zhang. Chung and Zhang pored over 18,650 observations on View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2025
News

Patch Work

split on the worthiness of the Ukrainian cause, and House Speaker Mike Johnson was unlikely to let the bill come to a vote without clear support from his caucus. “We couldn’t make things move,” says Haring. “And we thought we had... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

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 drive View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

firm performance. Photo: iStockPhoto In place of those markers, Ma and Khanna used a different proxy of looking at which chair appoints a director, assuming that a social tie must exist between the two. Then they measured how the voting... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Mar 2008
News

Election ’08, HBS Style

voter turnout has been quite high, although no specific figures were given. In the two days following the debate, voting was held until one presidential pair received 50 percent of the vote. “After a hotly contested final round, Fred... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

platforms. “How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers” was the most-read story on Working Knowledge in 2016. Other popular topics among our readers included workplace communication, negotiation, white-collar crime, and, of course, the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2008
News

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

voting public. They cast their votes not on ideology and old loyalties, but on a more pragmatic assessment of their own — and their community’s — interests. The last election saw incumbents lose in dozens of... View Details

Keywords: Government

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Abstract—Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
News

Hierarchy's Last Stand

underperform and be overcompensated. A caricature, but sadly still true: consider the enormous pay packages for CEOs in companies that lose money. Shareholder protests (such as those in the United Kingdom), voting against compensation... View Details

Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

(2) Review prior research on behavioral decision making to identify ideas that may be relevant to the domain of psychological influence; (3) Provide a series of examples of how behavioral decision research... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2010
News

Alumni Books

compensation consultants who legitimize outrageous pay; accountants and attorneys who see no evil; legal vote buying; and rampant conflicts of interest. They discuss what happened, or failed to happen, in the boardrooms of Lehman... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

2023
Working Paper

Words Can Hurt: How Political Communication Can Change the Pace of an Epidemic

By: Jessica Gagete-Miranda, Lucas Argentieri Mariani and Paula Rettl

While elite-cue effects on public opinion are well-documented, questions remain as to when and why voters use elite cues to inform their opinions and behaviors. Using experimental and observational data from Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic, we study how leader... View Details

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01 Sep 2012
News

Moving Day 2012

capacity to love,” Sternlight urged his classmates. “Figure out your purpose and pursue it with everything you have.” Another highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of faculty teaching awards, as voted by the Class of 2012.... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

after he took office in July 2010. That collective effort came to fruition in January 2011, when the faculty voted overwhelmingly to support the creation of the FIELD course. MBA Program Innovation: FIELD Launches Mission Possible:... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

dramatic events in the international economy, such as recurrent banking and financial crises in several countries. Much of this explanation focuses on the role of confidence, expectations, and crowd psychology. These factors result in aggregate View Details

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