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- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act slated to be signed this week by U.S. President Barack Obama has been called the most sweeping set of rules for banks and Wall Street since the...
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by Staff
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
(fracking) promised an abundance of accessible, cheap, domestically produced natural gas, but the cost to the environment remained a point of debate. As incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama faced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
[juvenile detention] coming toward me. I thought my worlds were about to collide. But he walked right past me. Either he didn’t see me, or he didn’t recognize me.” In addition, when US President Barack Obama...
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- 15 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax
if people do well, it is only right that they should help to pay for the setup that made their success possible. More to FDR's point, people who do better should pay for more of that setup. FDR's reasoning is far from obsolete; our current President seems to agree with...
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by Matthew C. Weinzierl
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, some saw it as proof that the color of one’s skin could no longer hold people back from achieving important leadership roles in the United States. Not true,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
trajectory. It truly is a must-read for anyone in the startup ecosystem. "I am listening to the calming (and funny!) voice of Barack Obama narrating A Promised Land." For my routine long drives between New...
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by Kathryn Haviland
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
into significant growth in net income or share price. In closing, students are asked what Kindler should write in the letter to shareholders to open Pfizer's 2008 annual report. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110003-PDF-ENG The Rise of...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
selling accounted for Barack Obama's victories in the 2008 and 2012 elections. Advertising was critical only in a close election—George W. Bush's (HBS MBA '75) victory in 2004. There was no one-size-fits-all marketing approach that swayed...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
financial crisis, and the excessive compensation of its CEO. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309101 Barack Obama: Organizing for America 2.0 Harvard Business School Case 709-493 Less than a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
proponents of such ideas have been advisers to both David Cameron in the U.K. (Richard Thaler) and Barack Obama in the US (Cass Sunstein). Behavioral economists advise regulators that, when in doubt, make...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
generates interest on YouTube, you'll get this viral effect where everybody has to see this particular video. In the political realm, Barack Obama has been able to raise money with a kind of a viral...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
PiskorskiHarvard Business School Module Note 712-440 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712440-PDF-ENG Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts (B)...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
example, have witnessed at least four recessions.) What is distinct about this time, our time, is the breadth and magnitude of change—political, demographic, and technological—that is unfolding in and around large-scale economic shifts. Politically, the election of...
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- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service (GDS). In 2014, President Barack View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Marketing is important in campaigning. It is equally important in governing. In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with an uplifting call for hope and change. He leveraged online media to attract...
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by Christina Pazzanese