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- October 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Sturm, Ruger & Co. and the Business of Guns
By: Robert J. Dolan
Dolan, Robert J. "Sturm, Ruger & Co. and the Business of Guns." Harvard Business School Case 515-029, October 2014. (Revised August 2015.)
- 05 Sep 2019
- News
Republican states loosen their gun laws following mass shootings
- 14 Jun 2016
- News
After Mass Shootings, It’s Often Easier to Buy a Gun
- 27 Feb 2018
- News
With Boycotts, Gun Popularity Will Go The Way Of Cigarettes
- 2021
- Working Paper
CEO Activism, Consumer Polarization, and Firm Performance
By: Young Hou and Christopher W. Poliquin
CEOs are increasingly engaging in activism on controversial social and political issues that do not directly affect their businesses. Simultaneously, the general public is increasingly polarized. We examine how CEO support for gun control after two mass shootings...
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Keywords:
CEO Activism;
Guns;
Polarization;
Non-market Strategy;
Social Issues;
Leadership;
Consumer Behavior;
Performance
Hou, Young, and Christopher W. Poliquin. "CEO Activism, Consumer Polarization, and Firm Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-106, February 2021.
- 18 Apr 2022
- HBS Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
Days after the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, a shaken Ed Stack, then the CEO and largest shareholder of Dick’s Sporting Goods, decided it was time for his 850-store chain to pull certain guns off its store shelves....
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
I’ve heard many ideas for reducing gun violence in the United States, but this was a new one on me. Mihir Desai, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, noted in a recent podcast that stock prices of View Details
- 02 Oct 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?
meeting needs of multiple stakeholders will be met with controversy. Those giving McMillon the lowest grades appeared to be gun owners or supporters. As BobG put it, “Anyone who makes a decision to not support a Constitutional right of...
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- 02 Nov 2011
- News
What's it take to boost energy for peak IT leadership performance?
- 12 Jul 2016
- News
Mass Shootings Influence Spike In Gun-Related Laws At State Level
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
Handgun waiting period laws save lives, study says
- 18 Jun 2020
- News
What CEOs Still Haven’t Said About Race and Policing
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
American companies snub the National Rifle Association
- 17 Oct 2017
- News
Handgun Waiting Periods Actually Do Save Lives
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Robert J. Dolan
Professor Dolan's research interests including product policy and pricing. These areas have been the subject to two books, Managing the New Product Development Process and Power Pricing:How Managing Price Impacts the Bottom Line. In addition, he works on the societal...
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