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  • 2024
  • Book

The Fading Light of Democratic Capitalism: How Pervasive Cronyism and Restricted Suffrage Are Destroying Democratic Capitalism as a National Ideal ... And What to Do About It

By: Malcolm S. Salter
What are we to do about declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? In this book, I address how we can rekindle the fading light of democratic capitalism as an... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Economic Systems; Culture
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    Lakshmi Ramarajan

    Professor Ramarajan is the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. Her research examines the management and consequences of identities in organizations.

    She teaches the... View Details

    Keywords: nonprofit industry
    • 28 Sep 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Annelle Sheline, GWU

    • 2025
    • Book

    Negotiation: The Game Has Changed

    By: Max Bazerman
    The world has changed dramatically in just the past few years—and so has the game of negotiation. COVID-19, Zoom, political polarization, the online economy, increasing economic globalization, and greater workplace diversity—all have transformed the who, what, where,... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Change
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    • 2022
    • Book

    Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

    By: Jeremy Friedman
    A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

    In the first decades after World War II, many newly independent... View Details
    Keywords: Socialism; Economic Systems; Globalization; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • TeachingInterests

    Business, Government, and the International Economy

    Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) is a course about the broad economic and political context in which business operates. Throughout their careers business leaders are asked to formulate and lead their firm's responses to the external... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Reflection

    By: Joseph L. Badaracco

    Corporations as Critical Social Institutions

    My current research examines the extent to which corporations are emerging as critical social institutions. Over the past century, and especially in recent decades, firms have taken on... View Details

    Keywords: Reflection
    • December 2003 (Revised October 2005)
    • Case

    High-Definition TV: The Grand Alliance

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Describes political and economic forces that influenced the development of an all-digital, high-definition television (HDTV) standard in the United States between 1986 and 1996. Outlines the stakes for various government and industry participants in the... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Emerging Markets; Standards; Business and Government Relations; Networks; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; Europe; United States
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    • February 2008 (Revised September 2010)
    • Case

    Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills

    By: Elisabeth Koll
    This case focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by... View Details
    Keywords: History; Law; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; State Ownership; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Entrepreneurship; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Shanghai; China
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    • June 2012
    • Article

    Managing Risks: A New Framework

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
    Risk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them. Many such rules, of course, are sensible and do reduce some risks that could severely damage a company. But... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Corporate Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Framework
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    • 20 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

    When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • November 2012 (Revised April 2013)
    • Case

    Colbún and the Future of Chile's Power

    By: Forest Reinhardt and Shon R. Hiatt
    This case is about Colbún, Chile's second largest electricity generator, which is facing significant uncertainty regarding the cost and availability of alternative energy sources. Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the volatility of oil prices,... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Chile; Environmental Protection; Energy Generation; Energy Industry; South America; Chile
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Trade and the Single Car Market: The EC-Japan Elements of Consensus, 1985–1999

    By: Grace Ballor
    In 1991, in the midst of the program to create a liberal Single European Market and in the context of a new Joint Declaration for cooperation with Japan, the European Commission brokered a private deal to restrict Japanese imports into the European Community for nearly... View Details
    Keywords: Market; Protectionism; Liberalization; Trade; Markets; International Relations; Auto Industry; Europe; European Union; Japan
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    • 05 May 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

    findings suggest that women (or other minorities) might be better able to maximize their voice by increasing their representation more broadly, rather than targeting a few high-level positions. Informal ways of influence are of great... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism

    By: Richard L. Nolan
    Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is capable of creating enough food and fuels to support not only itself, but also a growing majority of the 6 billion people now living on... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • 13 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel Dirty

    Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro, Francesca Gino & Maryam Kouchaki; Legal Services

      Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World

      A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.

      In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details
      • 16 Mar 2021
      • Blog Post

      2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Smitha Das (MBA 2018)

      question: what is the most effective way for me to make a difference in the world? Is it through public service, impact investing, social entrepreneurship or even academia? The 2+2 program gave me the runway to actively investigate this question and explore a couple... View Details
      • 20 Aug 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

      influence them. More specifically, this approach steers attention away from the political processes whereby administrative policies are formed and implemented . . . . These difficulties are compounded by the... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
      • 17 Oct 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Persuasion by Populist Propaganda: Evidence from the 2015 Argentine Ballotage

      Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky