Corporate Political Activity - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jun 2019
News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

extent to which different policies had bipartisan support. By year’s end, they had assessed both the academic and the political landscape of gun violence to see what might work in the current environment. “Looking for evidence-based... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

at Harvard Business School, and the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. The question central to the conference was posed midway through the first panel, Social Distribution, Advertising,... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

January 2023 (Revised April 2025)
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Peloton Interactive (A)

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and David Lane

Early in February 2022, the board of Peloton Interactive faced some knotty challenges. Immense pandemic demand for its stationary exercise bicycles and treadmills had prompted the firm to scale up production rapidly. But as gyms reopened and the virulence of the virus... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth Management; Investment Activism; Leadership; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Sports Industry; United States

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08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

to intervene in the process of competition and to improve the environment for competition. One of the points you mention in your book is that Japanese corporate practice has encouraged permanent employment. How is employee loyalty... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

Moss: One of the things that a historical perspective helps make clear is that risk management has always been an essential function of government. From the very earliest days of the American Republic, government policymakers have View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

Portrait Project

Maria Makhabane

I finally made it home at the age of five. Home - the country from which my father had been exiled for sixteen years when he actively opposed apartheid. Home - the land that he could only hope to one day see again. When apartheid finally... View Details

Kenneth Salas

Kenny Salas is a fintech entrepreneur and operating executive, currently at the helm of nuDesk, which helps companies scale through AI-driven solutions and dedicated talent hubs in Mexico. As a Partner at Cintar Group, he actively invests... View Details

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

also increase slightly. Our panel results are supported by a broadband regression discontinuity analysis. Politics does not seem to play a role in allocating funding. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

particular scandal; in fact, the Bank is probably among the cleanest and better-managed of the inter-governmental organizations. But the Bank's institutional structure, namely a representative and highly active Executive Board, made... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2004
News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

between the high cost of developing prescription drugs and patient demand for lower prices. Speaking on “The Politics of Innovation,” McClellan acknowledged that many patients have resorted to buying drugs outside the FDA’s regulatory... View Details

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

Robert L. Vann

Under Vann’s leadership, the Courier became the essential, and the only, newspaper that reported news and provided a positive showcasing of Pittsburgh’s growing black community. The paper became a very active View Details

Keywords: Publishing & Print Media

01 Mar 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Capital Architect

state control to free enterprise in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe—more than 20 countries in all, including Zambia, Vietnam, and, most recently, Myanmar. “Reforming economic infrastructure and privatizing state corporations are rarely... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Corruption 101

"Against the Grain" ends as a cliff-hanger: What should Jim do? The array of ethical choices forms the basis of class discussion in the required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. "Corruption can be defined as paying for a... View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

two steps to the side, and jumps over a large pothole. Congress took a giant step forward by establishing a framework for monitoring and addressing systemically risky institutions (SRI). The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

U.S. Tops Business Competitiveness Index 2006

Microeconomic activity such as the sophistication of company operations account for 80 percent of the variation in GDP per capita across countries, according to the report. Macroeconomic factors create a favorable business environment... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

for our tax system. For example, we might want to split the costs of government equally among all taxpayers, letting each of us keep whatever income we earn above our fair share. Or, we might want our tax system to reinforce social and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

of M&A activity must take place; mandatory public reporting must be required documenting experience and outcome information based on defined standards (just as the SEC requires reporting of certain information); and Medicare pricing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

01 Mar 2025
News

Patch Work

The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

is how state and federal law has acted to both facilitate and constrain political movements. The fair trade movement cannot be dismissed as nostalgic or simply pro-business because their efforts contributed to a progressive movement to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

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