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- 10 May 2010
- News
The unappealing choices after an inconclusive election
- TeachingInterests
MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models
The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details
- Teaching Interest
Large-Scale Investment (LSI, MBA Elective Curriculum)
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Large-Scale Investment (LSI) is a case-based course about project finance that is designed for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a...
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- 2022
- Working Paper
Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from French Elections
By: Kevin Dano, Francesco Ferlenga, Vincenzo Galasso, Caroline Le Pennec and Vincent Pons
In theory, free and fair elections can improve the selection of politicians and incentivize them to exert effort. In practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these two forces compound each...
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Keywords:
Political Parties;
Incumbent Politicians;
Democracy;
Political Elections;
Competitive Advantage
Dano, Kevin, Francesco Ferlenga, Vincenzo Galasso, Caroline Le Pennec, and Vincent Pons. "Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from French Elections." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30541, October 2022.
- Editorial
Tsipras' Second Chance: Greece to Hold Elections
By: George Serafeim
Serafeim, George. "Tsipras' Second Chance: Greece to Hold Elections." The Conversation (August 24, 2015). (Editorial. Also published as "A 100-day Plan to Get Greece Back on Track" in Australian Outlook on August 24, 2015.)
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations
Researchers have long known that building high levels of voter trust and participation are essential to help fragile democracies thrive. The 2013 national elections in Kenya, which followed vast government changes after a flawed national...
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Erin Peterson
- 28 Sep 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Rankings Matter Even When They Shouldn't: Bandwagon Effects in Two-Round Elections
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by Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud
- Editorial
What the Greek Elections Mean for the Economy
By: George Serafeim
Keywords:
Europe;
European Union;
Competitiveness;
National Strategy;
Politics;
Competition;
Government and Politics;
European Union;
Europe
Serafeim, George. "What the Greek Elections Mean for the Economy." Forbes.com (January 29, 2015).
- TeachingInterests
Digital Innovation and Transformation – MBA Elective Curriculum
By: Feng Zhu
Digital Innovation and Transformation is designed to equip students to confidently help conceive, lead and execute digital innovation initiatives and develop new business models for existing and insurgent organizations. The basic premise of the course... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- News
Why 2016 May Be The Most Important Presidential Election Since 1860
- December 1999
- Article
A Case Study of A Netizen's Guide to Elections
By: William H Dutton, Anita Elberse and Matthew Hale
Keywords:
Voting
Dutton, William H., Anita Elberse, and Matthew Hale. "A Case Study of A Netizen's Guide to Elections." Communications of the ACM 42, no. 12 (December 1999): 48–54.
- March 2006
- Background Note
HBS CORE Seminar -- Designing an MBA Elective Course
Describes some of the key elements in designing and developing a case-based MBA elective. Uses five Harvard Business School courses to illustrate key points.
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Keywords:
Design
Wheelwright, Steven C. "HBS CORE Seminar -- Designing an MBA Elective Course." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-110, March 2006.
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Club of Dallas Explores Election Reform and Political Innovation in Virtual Talk As the presidential election nears, the potential for an unusual outcome that could spark a...
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Margie Kelley
- 2015
- Working Paper
Selling to a Moving Target: Dynamic Marketing Effects in US Presidential Elections
By: Doug J. Chung and Lingling Zhang
We examine the effects of various political campaign activities on voter preferences in the domain of US Presidential elections. We construct a comprehensive data set that covers the three most recent elections, with detailed records of voter preferences at the...
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Keywords:
Multi-channel Marketing;
Personal Selling;
Advertising;
Political Campaigns;
Dynamic Panel Data;
Instrumental Variables;
Marketing Communications;
Political Elections;
Advertising Campaigns;
United States
Chung, Doug J., and Lingling Zhang. "Selling to a Moving Target: Dynamic Marketing Effects in US Presidential Elections." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-095, June 2015. (Revised December 2015.)
- 2013
- Book
Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline
By: Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills
Democracy and Its Elected Enemies reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Government and Politics;
Macroeconomics;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Rosefielde, Steven, and Daniel Quinn Mills. Democracy and Its Elected Enemies: American Political Capture and Economic Decline. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.