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  • 2025
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The Political Polarization of Corporate America

By: Vyacheslav Fos, Elisabeth Kempf and Margarita Tsoutsoura
U.S. executives are increasingly segregating by political party. We establish this new fact using political affiliations from voter registration records for top executives of S&P 1500 firms between 2008 and 2022. We identify key drivers of this trend, including... View Details
Keywords: Political Polarization; Partisanship; Executives; Government and Politics; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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Fos, Vyacheslav, Elisabeth Kempf, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. "The Political Polarization of Corporate America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-003, July 2022. (Revised March 2025.)
  • April 11, 2017
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Systems Change in a Polarized Country

By: Mark R. Kramer
A growing number of U.S. foundations are adopting practices based on systems change to achieve their goals in the current political environment. View Details
Keywords: Political Polarization; Foundations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States
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Kramer, Mark R. "Systems Change in a Polarized Country." Stanford Social Innovation Review (website) (April 11, 2017).
  • 2022
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Values as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization

By: Benjamin Enke, Mattias Polborn and Alex A Wu
Motivated by novel survey evidence, this paper develops a theory of political behavior in which values are a luxury good: the relative weight voters place on values rather than material considerations increases in income. The model predicts (i) voters who are... View Details
Keywords: Political Polarization; Government and Politics; Moral Sensibility; Luxury; Values and Beliefs; Voting
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Enke, Benjamin, Mattias Polborn, and Alex A Wu. "Values as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization." Working Paper, April 2022. (Revised April 2023.)
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Managing a Polarized Workforce: How to Foster Debate and Promote Trust

By: Julia A. Minson and Francesca Gino
One of the toughest challenges leaders face is managing diverse perspectives—and given heightened tensions over politics and movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, that’s more difficult today than ever before. At the same time, productive disagreement and... View Details
Keywords: Polarization; Employees; Perspective; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Trust
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Minson, Julia A., and Francesca Gino. "Managing a Polarized Workforce: How to Foster Debate and Promote Trust." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 2 (March–April 2022): 63–71.
  • 22 Sep 2016
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Practical Uses for Polarizers

  • 22 Sep 2016
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Why Use a Polarizing Filter

  • August 2012
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Polar Sports, Inc.

By: W. Carl Kester and Wei Wang
Polar Sports, Inc. is a fashion skiwear manufacturing company in Littleton, Colorado. The company has a unique design for skiwear using a special synthetic material that improves insulation and durability. The ski apparel industry is highly competitive and the best way... View Details
Keywords: Production; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; Colorado
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Kester, W. Carl, and Wei Wang. "Polar Sports, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-513, August 2012.
  • 2024
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Political Polarization and Finance

By: Elisabeth Kempf and Margarita Tsoutsoura
We review an empirical literature that studies how political polarization affects financial decisions. We first discuss the degree of partisan segregation in finance and corporate America, the mechanisms through which partisanship may influence financial decisions, and... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Investment Portfolio; Decisions; Governance
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Kempf, Elisabeth, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. "Political Polarization and Finance." Annual Review of Financial Economics 16 (2024): 413–434.
  • 18 Oct 2016
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Wells Fargo's Polar Opposite

    Managing a Polarized Workforce

    • 06 Jul 2022
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    The Political Polarization of Corporate America

    • September 2021
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    Reforming the U.S. Immigration Regime: A Polarizing Issue in a Polarized Era

    By: Marco Tabellini
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    Tabellini, Marco. "Reforming the U.S. Immigration Regime: A Polarizing Issue in a Polarized Era." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 722-015, September 2021.
    • 03 Jun 2022
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    Managing a Polarized Workforce

    • 11 Apr 2025
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    Political Polarization and Finance

    • August 2012
    • Teaching Note

    Polar Sports, Inc. (Brief Case)

    By: W. Carl Kester and Wei Wang
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    Kester, W. Carl, and Wei Wang. "Polar Sports, Inc. (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 913-514, August 2012.
    • 01 Oct 2024
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    How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

    Political polarization has seeped so deeply into US society that it shapes who Americans befriend, date, and marry, where they live, raise their families, and retire—and how they run their businesses. A recent paper illustrates how the... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • April 2021 (Revised August 2021)
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    Reforming the U.S. Immigration Regime: A Polarizing Issue in a Polarized Era

    By: Marco Tabellini
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    Tabellini, Marco. "Reforming the U.S. Immigration Regime: A Polarizing Issue in a Polarized Era." Harvard Business School Case 721-022, April 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
    • 15 Jun 2021
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    The Path out of Polarization

    Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information
    • 30 Jan 2014
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    The Polar Vortex Has Made You More Productive

    • 01 Jul 2022
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    Board Rooms Are Becoming More Politically Polarized

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