Religion - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told

Image by John Ritter In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

24 Apr 2014
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Positive impact that hits home

Kiné Seck Mercier (MBA 2014), co-president of the Harvard Islamic Society, recalls a first-year HBS case study set in Saudi Arabia: “There was a lot of discussion about Islam, and there was a lot of misunderstanding about the difference between the View Details

2016
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Forward-Facing and Behind the Scenes: Shifts in Political Islam in Post-July 15 Turkey

By: Kristin Fabbe

Keywords: Turkey; Politics; Islam; Religion; Government and Politics; Turkey

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Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam

By: Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo

This study examines the spatial distribution of Muslim societies shedding light on its geographic origins. The empirical analysis conducted across countries, virtual countries, and ethnicities establishes that geographic inequality and proximity to pre-Islamic trade... View Details

Keywords: Geography; Religion; Trade

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October 22, 2009
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Eboo Patel: Obama Faith Advisor Preaches Religious Tolerance

By: William W. George

Keywords: Religion; Government and Politics

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01 Dec 1999
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Business Ethics Fellow Honored

A September dinner at the Dean's House honored HBS assistant professor Ashish Nanda, the 1999-2000 Henry B. Arthur Fellow. Henry ("Hank") Arthur was a distinguished member of the HBS faculty for ten years and is known for his innovative work in agribusiness. From early... View Details

2022
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When Fifth Columns Fall: Religious Groups and Loyalty-Signaling in Erdoğan's Turkey

By: Kristin Fabbe and Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu

This chapter investigates the role that fifth-column claims play in authoritarian politics. Specifically, it examines how fifth-column claims against the Gülen Movement have transformed the relationship between the Turkish state and both official (state-sanctioned)... View Details

Keywords: Fifth Columns; Gülen Movement; Political Islam; Government and Politics; Religion; Turkey

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01 Feb 1997
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Ban the Butterfly Rule for Corporate Directors

You're only as good as your job title? Apparently so, if you're the director of a major company. A corporate governance precept currently in vogue calls for outside directors to offer to resign if they change (or lose) their jobs. Chrysler, for example, requires... View Details

Keywords: Joseph Hinsey IV

01 Jun 1998
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Investigation Leads to Sanctions, Recommendations

This spring, while the Class of 1998 was preparing to leave HBS to launch promising careers in business management, they, along with the entire HBS community, were also struggling to come to terms with a disturbing situation that existed within one section of the class... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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White knight in the rye

When Sotheby's recently auctioned off fourteen love letters that reclusive author J.D. Salinger had written 27 years ago to Joyce Maynard, his then college-age companion, many observers derided Maynard's decision to sell the letters, deeming the entire matter a... View Details

07 Jul 2014
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Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Businesses

Keywords: Retail Trade

01 Dec 2020
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Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)

Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong When Mary Lindley Burton (MBA 1976) came to HBS in the mid-1970s, the Smith College religion major “felt like a fish out of water.” What saved her, she says, was a... View Details

Portrait Project

Lynn ElHarake

whose religion has been hijacked by radicals. By fighting against those who deny the universality of human rights. By convincing stakeholders to invest in Muslim communities. I will honor it for my younger self who was almost afraid to... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

With Dean Clark and former Dean McArthur present, along with some fifty current and former faculty members, two back-to-back sessions at the McArthur symposium under-scored differing views within the HBS community on some fundamental business issues. A paper written by... View Details

2010
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Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance

By: Susan Dynarski, Jonathan Gruber and Danielle Li

The effect of vouchers on sorting between private and public schools depends upon the price elasticity of demand for private schooling. Estimating this elasticity is empirically challenging because prices and quantities are jointly determined in the market for private... View Details

Keywords: Price; Religion; Entrepreneurship; Education

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01 Jun 2007
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Power Trip

20th century, who your parents were, whom you knew, and the community you belonged to were key factors. For business leaders, being part of the right society might also mean being either Episcopalian or Presbyterian. Regardless of the depth of one’s spiritual... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

27 Oct 2009
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How to Go from Small to Super

Keywords: Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards

Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that scrutiny to company boards.... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services