Democracy - Publications - Faculty & Research

Research Summary

Renovating Democratic Capitalism

This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

01 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security

Tabellini began studying the effects of race and migration as a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This study’s findings go beyond the military or law enforcement to illustrate far deeper problems afflicting America, he says. “It applies to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

democracies such as Finland and New Zealand are overrepresented. Does It Matter? "There are two views of the United Nations," says Werker. "Either you think it matters or you don't." In the first camp are those who... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Oct 2022
What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

that such trade might alter Chinese interest in democracy and capitalism. That leads to a conclusion that “we need to start quickly weaning ourselves off of the products and resources of our adversaries.” Presumably, that would call for a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

handbook for rethinking diversity and inclusion; and the new book Glass Half-Broken by HBS colleagues Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg. Voting rights is a contentious immediate issue in America, which is puzzling to those of us who feel View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

07 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

term. He wrote an article in 1943 in which he speaks of "venture capital." Q: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is perhaps Schumpeter's best-known work. What makes it so rich and provocative even half a century later? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

21 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

democracies has been decreasing over the last decades and, in some countries, elections regularly attract less than half of the voting-age population. The lower a democracy’s participation, the more unequal it tends to be, raising... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Research Summary

Capitalism as a System of Governance

My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level... View Details

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

03 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

Americans value; what we value, more accurately, is "liberal democracy." Thus, we would not support the right of 51 percent of a population to persecute or kill the other 49 percent, despite the fact that this is consistent with the notion of View Details

Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

democracy may be a requirement of mandatory service-social service, infrastructure construction, teaching/mentoring or military according to individual talents and interests A couple years contributed in the late teens or early twenties... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs By: Battilana, Julie, Michael Fuerstein, and Michael Lee Abstract—For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

Economy No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-068 In the Name of Democracy? The Rise and Decline of India's Congress Party In 1950 it looked highly doubtful that Indian View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

Publisher's site: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/ Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy Authors:John A. Quelch and Katherine E. Jocz Publication:Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2008 Abstract Marketing has a greater... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

Democracy has a dirty little secret. Despite the fever pitch over presidential primaries this year, the truth is there are few people actually voting. Before the most recent round of voting, only some 11 percent of eligible Democrats... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

had two critical consequences. First, it has endangered democracy by giving the wealthy few enormous influence over who is elected to positions of power and what they decide. Second, it has further endangered View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

state-owned enterprises as a chief instrument of state intervention? 6. Business and Democracy. The relation between business and democracy is contentious. Although many scholars since Douglass North have linked the growth of capitalist... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

fallout, particularly inequality and migration as its consequence. They see their cities, as in France, becoming battlegrounds. The very people they need for the workforce don't feel integrated or part of the social contract, and they know this can breed violence and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

Summing Up Is the case method gaining relevance over time? Case method instruction may not be perfect, but to paraphrase Winston Churchill's view of democracy (and Sameer Kamat's response to the column), it's better than the alternatives.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

26 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

political views aside to address the impediments to housing and homeownership at the state and local levels. This volume is a compilation of bipartisan recommendations from the authors and success stories from all corners of the country. Book link:... View Details