Corporate Political Activity - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

the determinants of entrepreneurial activity in 37 developed and developing nations. We focus both on individual characteristics and on countries' regulatory differences. We show that individual characteristics, such as gender, age, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1998
News

How the Ron Brown Award Was Born

ceremony.(photograph by Dotti Stone) Companies submitting projects for the award must be engaged in activities that significantly promote employee and/or community development and meet specific criteria. For example, a company's... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

A Modest Tax Proposal

indefinite deferral under the current system. This proposal would raise revenues from corporate activities in jurisdictions with no orÂ low taxes, whileÂ encouraging American View Details

Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays

01 Jun 1999
News

Ian Walsh

"V" (for valor) from President Clinton. Leaving active duty in 1996, Walsh earned a master's degree at the Kennedy School of Government before entering HBS, where he has been active in student government.... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Oct 1999
News

Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney

fits with the public side of his SLOC work. "It's not unlike the clamor of a political campaign," notes Romney, who ran unsuccessfully for Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy's seat in 1994 and whose father, George, was a Presidential... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1999
News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

activity in Europe and Asia and how managers can use restructuring techniques to help the stock market more accurately value their companies. Gilson, who was previously on the finance faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, has... View Details

February 2020 (Revised September 2021)
Supplement

Mission Related Investments at the Ford Foundation (B)

By: Shawn Cole, Michael Norris and T. Robert Zochowski

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Mission-Related Investing; Philanthropy; Foundation; Endowments; Socially Responsible Investing; Investment; Institutional Investing; Investment Activism; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States

Citation

Purchase

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

care in each medical condition, not its overall breadth of services. The value delivered in a medical condition arises from the full set of activities and specialties involved. It is not the individual roles, skills, or functions that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

partner—Vladimír Železný, an experienced and politically connected television executive—managed to divert the entire value of the underlying entity for his personal benefit. After court battles escalated to the level of international... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

November 2019
Supplement

United Technologies Corp.: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher

After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune Magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States

Citation

Purchase

Web

Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the Corporate Image Gary Works Photograph Album Resources Research Links Films & TV Bibliography From the Director Site Credits Special Collections Search Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion... View Details

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

gets restored is for the investor to quit buying—but that puts the brakes on both corporate investment and technological innovation for an extended period. A better method is to update regulation to restore a modicum of honesty to the... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

the problem, not one that most economists would prefer." Not In My Backyard The influence of politics becomes clear in "Reading Energy," a case focusing on the travails of entrepreneur Tom Cassel, who wants to build an... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

Web

Eligibility & Criteria | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

organizations/management issues for profit organizations in which the mission and the core activities of the organization have a direct social purpose business approaches where the core focus is social impact, including environmental... View Details

Web

Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Katie Rae Mulvey, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation Katie Rae Mulvey 22 Jun 2017 During the year, we’ll be connecting with some of our 2017-18 HBS Leadership Fellows, to hear abo... SEI Advisory Board Matt Segneri 15 Jun 2017 At the... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Promoting a Deeper Understanding

Sherri and Jed (MBA 1975) Bullard One of HBS’s greatest strengths, says Jed Bullard (MBA 1975), is that it trains students to appreciate different perspectives, in particular, how people brought up in different countries, cultures, and View Details

06 Apr 2016
What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

Summing Up--Is Product Security A Potential Distraction for Apple’s Leadership? The saga of Apple’s stand-off with the United States government over the Company’s refusal to assist the FBI in hacking its own iPhone product to aid in a domestic terrorism investigation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

principles in all of economics is that of comparative advantage, first articulated by the British political economist David Ricardo in 1817. Intent on persuading British lawmakers to abandon their protectionist trade policies, Ricardo set... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

Web

Bibliography - The Human Factor - – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Technology, and Work in America's Age of Mass Production. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Brown, Elspeth H. The Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture. Baltimore and London: John... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

disparity of wealth and income in many countries and across regions. In turn, they thought these gaps could lead to populist politics that would adversely affect the conduct of capitalism. A second major concern was that our productive... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Publications