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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Werker Abstract Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
illustrates the potential for creative and strategic negotiation to overcome what many regard as impossibly high barriers—as well as the painful lesson that negotiating virtuosity plus the election of a charismatic leader hardly suffice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
few pennies to that dollar. Lack of social supports, such as child care and paid sick leave, is another ever-present issue the pandemic laid bare. It could explain why some women have elected to leave the workforce altogether: “Women have... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
good at it. Fit for the Presidency? Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans by Seymour Morris Jr. (MBA 1972) (Potomac Books) Every four years Americans embark on the Super Bowl of democracy: a presidential election campaign filled with... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
time when Professor Malcolm McNair invited him to do so, despite Walter not having yet been appointed assistant professor at least that is the way I remember my attendance that day in the second-year elective course, Retailing. I was... View Details
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
the Author Doug J. Chung is the MBA Class of 1962 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Sales Management & Strategy in the second year MBA Elective Curriculum. [Image: Achisatha... View Details
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
"practicing" in a significant part of the field. Those who elect to sign a license agreement must pay a high license fee and therefore help to fund the company's R&D. The company, meanwhile, must balance the immediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
with procedures that respect rights and afford subsequent accountability. Some critics fear that socially responsible corporate activity encroaches upon the role of government and usurps authority reserved for elected officials and bodies... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
had trouble with social things. You know, in later years, all that got corrected by taking an anticonvulsive drug, which I still take. But it was a factor, definitely, in my life, in that period. JH: Despite that setback, Wilson was View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
outcome. But it’s not going to happen in this one.” Two cases authored by HBS professor David Yoffie and taught in the elective course Strategy and Technology track E Ink’s evolution and highlight some of the challenges it has faced over... View Details
- March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Dominion Voting Systems v. Fox News
The case examines the Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News defamation settlement based upon statements made on air in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election. View Details
Keywords: (General) Management; Business Earnings; Financial Statements; Change Management; Disruption; Volatility; Transition; Crime and Corruption; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Demographics; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Finance; Cost; Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Policy; Political Elections; Business History; Information; Law; Legal Liability; Laws and Statutes; Management; Marketing; Advertising; Media; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Society; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
What does a career path for a public entrepreneur actually look like? In which sector (private vs. public) should I start? Should I run for elective office? What does that imply for how I pursue my career? And often, and perhaps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Afghan female entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi between 2009 and 2015. The case opens with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising her achievements at a State Department dinner in March 2015 for the newly elected President of Afghanistan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
much. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611012-PDF-ENG Children's Hospital Boston (A) Scott A. Snook and Jeffrey C. ConnorHarvard Business School Case 411-041 Five year old Matty died at Children's Hospital Boston as a result of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
1.5 Attendance | MBA
and inform the Registrar’s Office ( registrar@hbs.edu ) before the scheduled exam, or paper or project deadline. Other Requests Requests for alternate arrangements for any reason other than those listed above must be approved in advance by the Chair, MBA View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
states, and countries—entities that aspire to go on forever—must nonetheless run for reelection every few years. In some cases, they no sooner win one election than they are forced to run for reelection. Fearing loss of their seats, they... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
elective that examines how to create and manage the challenges of nonprofit or for-profit social enterprises. Field Studies in Social Enterprise, a practice-based elective, offers students the opportunity to work in teams with leading... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s... View Details
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Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 16 Jul 2025 Print View View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View # A B C D E F G I L M N O P R S T U V W # Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 3... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
elected mayor of Chicago because they wanted to be able to have a good relationship. So that's what helped get them to the table. And then I could work with the individual companies to explain how they would meet the commitments that the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz