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- 2016
- Working Paper
Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal
By: Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg
We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Betrayal; Populism; Incompetence; Literacy; Crime and Corruption; Income; Ethics; Political Elections; Race; Residency
Di Tella, Rafael, and Julio J. Rotemberg. "Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-056, December 2016.
- 14 May 2015
- Blog Post
Venture Capitalist Returns to HBS to Mentor MBA Students
ones. I consider the opportunity to fund these ideas, and work with the founders to build them into large companies over the years of the investments, a true privilege. Why did you want to join in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
the selection of a vastly increased enrollment of blacks in the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration to take the talented black business entrepreneurs who, regardless of education, are making a... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021
By: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen and Vincent Pons
We ask how childhood environment shapes political behavior. We measure young voters’ participation and party affiliation in nationally comprehensive voter files and reconstruct their childhood location histories based on their parents’ addresses. We compare outcomes of... View Details
Brown, Jacob R., Enrico Cantoni, Sahil Chinoy, Martin Koenen, and Vincent Pons. "The Effect of Childhood Environment on Political Behavior: Evidence from Young U.S. Movers, 1992–2021." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31759, October 2023.
- 2017
- Book
The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations
By: Tsedal Neeley
For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Residency; Corporate Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brazil; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Thailand; United States
Neeley, Tsedal. The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Should Firms Move Talent from the Geographic Periphery to Hubs? A Strategic Human Capital Perspective
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Victoria Sevcenko and Tarun Khanna
A longstanding literature holds that firms should hire and move talent from the geographic periphery to hubs as a means to create value from human capital. They do so, however, at the risk of losing the worker to rivals located in the same geographic hub,... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Residency; Technology Industry; India
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Victoria Sevcenko, and Tarun Khanna. "Should Firms Move Talent from the Geographic Periphery to Hubs? A Strategic Human Capital Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-080, February 2014. (Revised August 2020.)
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
my section I would be doing this, I quite literally got a round of applause in support. Side note: entrepreneurs keep the femtech innovations coming! I remember Pushing the convenience of living on campus to... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult conditions, Dharavi's residents occupy a centrally located parcel of land View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
highlighting the work performed by the government of an archetypal town increased trust in government and support for government services. In Study 2, residents of Boston,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
the possibilities, Arjun sought “a better understanding of how to go from lab work to medical product” by taking an internship (after fulfilling his medical residency in Sydney, Australia) with Celtic... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
you can't prove who you are.” The scope and scale of the project, and its progress so far in already enrolling 200 million people, make this the largest-scale project of its kind in the world, says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
wind? How will local residents feel about windmill farms on their horizon? What effects will regulators have on the energy industry in the future? What unexpected opportunities or obstacles will pop up along... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
paper concludes that savings contributes to growth in locations where entrepreneurs and companies lack access to necessary technological advances, in countries far away from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24–26 Aug 2016
- Reunion
HBS Executive Education Global Alumni Leadership Summit
This special two-day summit is designed exclusively for members of our HBS alumni community. We hope that you will take part in the global conversation, and look forward to welcoming you back on campus for the celebration. View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China
Podcast with: Tarun Khanna Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 14 min., 33 sec. The world has an estimated population of 6.6 billion people. One-third of that total resides in just 2 nations: China... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
needs. These reside deep within the organization, and therefore must be developed and leveraged through processes completely foreign to the vertical, control-based management approaches that proved all powerful View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
and lacking investment; and third, increasing access to fresh and healthy food for residents of Lawrence, 80% of whom live in a food desert. The opportunity to invest in Casabe... View Details
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
partners, “we have an ecosystem for digital equity, twenty-three organizations trained to help schools get connected.” In addition, Pasricha had been working on an AI-powered Chatbot to help San Jose View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
partners, “we have an ecosystem for digital equity, twenty-three organizations trained to help schools get connected.” In addition, Pasricha had been working on an AI-powered Chatbot to help San Jose View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
The frigid temperatures on the Harvard Business School campus in mid-January were a minor inconvenience for the 641 students enrolled in Short Intensive Programs (SIPs), the no-fee, no-credit elective... View Details