Katherine Gehl, a former CEO and the founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, and Michael Porter, a professor at Harvard Business School, apply his Five Forces framework to explain why U.S. politics are dysfunctional. CURT NICKISCH: And you give lots of examples of this, like immigration reform, any number of issues where you think a solution would be preferred by a majority of the population, but it’s just not in the interest of either party to compromise, because if it doesn’t happen, they can still complain about a problem and go back to their donors and raise money for candidates, and you know, wage an election campaign again. CURT NICKISCH: That’s Katherine Gehl, founder of the Institute for Political Innovation, and Michael Porter, professor at Harvard Business School.