election - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

process, focuses on the political actors that might enter into this process. Specifically, we suggest that private firms be allowed to compete in elections to hold public office. That is, a corporate entity (e.g., Ernst and Young), rather... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA - Course Catalog

and HBS alumni and continues to evolve (in both form and content) in collaboration with our students – who we consider to be our design partners. If you sign up for LIFE, you are not just electing to take a course—you are choosing to pick... View Details

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

remarkable global political events: Great Britain’s surprise decision to leave the European Union, one of the most contentious American elections in our nation’s history, and, just recently, the closely-watched presidential race in... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

an undertaking of President Maithripala Sirisena, who came to power in a shocking 2015 election when the 10-year incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa, called an early election at the urging of an astrologer who... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

Leroux was elected in 2008 as Chairman, President, and CEO of Desjardins Group. In order to compete effectively in a demanding and changing financial services industry and survive the global financial crisis, Desjardins needed to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

politicians from politically contested areas are also more likely to turn to toxic loans. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we show that politicians time the election cycle by implementing more transactions immediately before... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2008
News

Back to the Future

position today,” says HBS professor Forest Reinhardt, who heads the Business, Government, and International Economy unit. An expert on the environment who began teaching at HBS in 1992, Reinhardt now teaches the elective Energy, a course... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

cutting-edge ways. In 2014, Professor Sullivan was tasked to design and implement a Conviction Review Unit (“CRU”) for the newly elected Brooklyn District Attorney. The CRU, designed to identify and exonerate wrongfully convicted persons,... View Details

23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

around a tenth of Rio Tinto's profits and over a quarter of Mongolia's GDP. But the terms of the deal were being threatened by elections in Mongolia and a change in voter sentiment towards the project. With around $6 billion invested, Rio... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Jr., who teaches the MBA elective The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature, adds, "What we're seeing is an increasingly felt need for people to integrate the spiritual dimension of their lives into what they... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

gains. Change is afoot, but the direction in which we move will be a function of the election and the prevailing sense of Americans toward globalization and the foreign activities of their firms. It should be interesting. Q: What do you... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

the city an opportunity to rebuild its low-performing public school system. What led you to do this research and teach case studies on this subject? Stacey Childress: I developed and teach an MBA elective course at HBS called... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

6/'48) is the "Pioneer Class Secretary"; a Society of Class Secretaries proposed. Autumn 1950 Fourteen MBA classes and seven AMP groups have elected "permanent class secretaries." February 1958 New policy announced: each class will have... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

company; evaluate the performance of senior managers; set executive compensation; approve key strategic and financial decisions; nominate candidates for shareholders to elect as directors; and ensure the company’s integrity,... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

Gallani: Physician pay will get a closer look The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the problems of compensation based on relative value unit (RVU) as never before. Hospitals have been overwhelmed with COVID-related cases and, at the same time, they have had to cancel... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

lead to dysfunctional group dynamics) and the perspectives brought to the table by board leaders and director. Finally, the benefits of two opposing leadership structures are debated: one chapter argues for electing a chairman who is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, disproportionately discouraging marginalized citizens. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment... View Details

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

Harvard Business School Case 709-007 Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd faced a daunting task that he never imagined he would have to face when he was elected two years ago. Australia at that time was poised to enter its 17th year of... View Details