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2022: A Tumultuous Year in ESG and Sustainability
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Memo to the Candidates: Focus on Knowledge Work
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How Obama Became CEO of the USA - and What It Means for CEOs Everywhere
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's the morning after one of the most miraculous events in memory, so it seems slightly uninspired to look to yesterday's election for lessons about... -
On the Risks of Tweeting During Canada’s Election
Government Digital ArticleWhen I appeared on the Bill Good Show, one of Vancouver’s top talk radio shows Monday to discuss Canada’s ban on election-night tweeting, an issue that I wrote about for HBR, I didn’t know that I’d been preceded by Stephen Harper, Canada’s Prime Minister, who ultimately was reelected. If only I’d had a chance to […] -
How Presidential Elections Made Social Media Marketing Banal
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What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
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The UK’s Snap Election Reminds Us That Proposing a Change Forces People to Ask New Questions About You
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How Nate Silver Won the 2012 Presidential Election
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Why Companies Need to Help Ensure Election Integrity
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Economic Health and the 2016 Elections
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When Populists Rise, Economies Usually Fall
Global Business Digital ArticleExtensive research has shown: right- and left-wing populists both lead to lower stock returns and higher inflation. Here's why - and what businesses can... -
A Self-Care Guide to Help You Get Through Election Day
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Corporate Political Spending Is Bad Business
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The Missing Political Debate Over the Digital Economy
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleFive ideas the U.S. presidential candidates should be talking about. -
Voting for Behavioral Economics (And Against My Own Self-Interest)
Global Business Digital ArticleDid you vote today? If you did, was your choice purely based on your own economic interest? When I go to vote in a few hours, I will definitely be voting...
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Axis My India
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI) as a printing and publishing company in 1998. In 2013, AMI expanded into consumer research and election forecasting.... -
The Commission on Presidential Debates
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Can Mexico Make Democracy Work?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Enrique Peña Nieto, the presidential candidate of the old Mexican ruling party elected in 2012, passed the most fundamental reforms in at least two decades.... -
Unrest in Chile
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2020, Chileans would head to the ballot box to decide their country's future. Many international observers credited Chile's decades of neoliberal governance... -
Facebook: Hard Questions (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In April 2018, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was called to Capitol Hill to be the star witness at congressional hearings intended to examine... -
Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification, Supplement Two
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Women as Leaders: Lessons from Political Quotas in India
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In 1993, the Indian government approved a constitutional amendment that would forever change the face of rural politics. The landmark legislation mandated... -
The Business of Campaigns
Management Case Study11.95View Details In 2022, the U.S. Congress examined the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, the latest in a long series... -
The Battle over the Initiative and Referendum in Massachusetts (1918)
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Barack Obama: Organizing for America 2.0
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Say on Pay at The Walt Disney Company
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Northern Telecom and Netas (A): Turkey's Telecommunications Team
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The Turkish general manager of a successful telecommunications equipment-manufacturing joint venture between the Canadian company Northern Telecom and... -
The Obama Campaign Strategy
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Obama versus Clinton: The YouTube Primary
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details What was the role of the Internet in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination between Senators Obama and Clinton? How does the role change... -
The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy
30.00View Details Our political system in America is broken, right? Wrong. The truth is, the American political system is working exactly how it is designed to work, and... -
The Rise of Populism and Italy's Electoral "Tsunami"
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George Soros: The Stateless Statesman
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Facebook: Hard Questions (B)
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2022: A Tumultuous Year in ESG and Sustainability
Global Business Digital ArticleA look back at 10 of the year's most important stories. -
Don’t Let Election Passions Roil Your Workplace
Difficult conversations ResearchResearch-based advice on how to help employees engage in productive discourse. -
Why It's So Hard for Us to Visualize Uncertainty
Technology & Operations InterviewElection night brought a tricky dataviz challenge into focus. -
Should You Talk About Politics at Work?
Communication Digital ArticleWeigh the consequences of speaking up. -
Axis My India
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI) as a printing and publishing company in 1998. In 2013, AMI expanded into consumer research and election forecasting.... -
The Commission on Presidential Debates
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) has organized the presidential and vice-presidential debates in the United States since 1988. In the spring... -
Fixing U.S. Politics
Business and society Magazine ArticleWhat business can—and must—do to revitalize democracy -
Can Mexico Make Democracy Work?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Enrique Peña Nieto, the presidential candidate of the old Mexican ruling party elected in 2012, passed the most fundamental reforms in at least two decades.... -
Unrest in Chile
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2020, Chileans would head to the ballot box to decide their country's future. Many international observers credited Chile's decades of neoliberal governance... -
An Anxious Person’s Guide to Managing Anxiety
Mental health Digital ArticleCurated tips from the HBR archive.