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01 Dec 2007
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Mead Treadwell

sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), in effect since... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation

08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

two years after its $2.1 billion acquisition of Mey Icki Sanayi ve Ticaret AS (Mey Icki), the principal spirits company in Turkey specializing in the local beverage, raki, Diageo, the world’s leading premium drinks company, was concerned about new View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

School Case 719-002 Donald Trump and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act In January 2018, President Donald Trump was full of optimism. He had just signed the most substantial legislation of his young presidency, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA),... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

October 2020 (Revised November 2023)
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COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull

In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in at-home lab testing. After making dramatic budget cuts, she decides to pivot the organization to address the... View Details

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06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

changing this since it is focused on the material issues that affect a company’s ability to create value over the short-, medium-, and long-term. Each country must take its own path to integrated reporting. This is illustrated by analyzing the different regulatory and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

would investors pay for them?—and this means regulation and legislation relying on ratings becomes much harder to implement. The third type of model, which I have seen proposed recently, is some form of fixed payments (called "bond... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

15 Nov 2011
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associated with entering the political process help explain all three facts. We then exploit a natural experiment in the expiration in legislation surrounding the H-1B visa cap for high-skilled immigrant workers to study how these costs... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

project has surveyed HBS alumni and other business leaders to assess perceptions about which aspects of the country, such as the economy or education, they see as thriving and which as lacking. The survey results consistently showed that Washington’s persistent failure... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

confidence. Their continued enthusiasm to lobby their senators and representatives will be important to his ability to legislate his campaign promises. Governing as president therefore requires a combination of “push” and “pull”... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
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Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)

By: Joseph Pacelli, ZeSean Ali and Tom Quinn

Fund manager Janet Curie asked for a recommendation about the pharmaceutical company Catalent. The company seemed like a solid investment. However, a pair of research reports issued over the previous two months complicated this narrative. GlassHouse Research, a short... View Details

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13 Nov 2007
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Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

women." Leaders need to set bold goals and provide the resources for people to reach those goals. It doesn't help to have legislation with a very grand sounding name like No Child Left Behind and not give it enough funding so that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

on California and Silicon Valley, we exploit Michigan's inadvertent reversal of its non-compete enforcement legislation as a natural experiment to investigate the impact of non-competes on mobility. Using the U.S. patent database and a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

analyze and critique, and, therefore, the designers of society’s big data infrastructure, whether human or machines, play an unacknowledged legislative function of great consequence. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2016
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The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

were huge, particularly since fair trade legislation had been proposed and defeated in almost every US congressional session since 1912. Fair trade networks continued post—World War II, although the concept began to come under... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

biggest problems we are facing in society. Issues like inequality seem so daunting that it can be tempting to sit back and wait for government and policy-leaders who will legislate or regulate solutions. I’d urge you to resist this... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture

Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the... View Details

01 Jul 2014
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comparison concerns a central activity of citizenship, which is participation in the political and legislative processes. Publisher's link: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15241.html August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives" updating key events and disputes concerning the reform law, including the 2010 Congressional elections, legislative proposals, legal challenges, and responses by employers. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions

addition, a scandalous love affair had ruined Hamilton's chances to be President (which, despite being foreign-born, he was eligible to become by law at the time). Hamilton remained in office until early 1795, implementing the legislation... View Details

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

corporate tax code? Because the IRS wanted loopholes? No, because businesses pleaded for loopholes that benefited them. MP: And legislators saw a great way to get campaign contributions. Q: What reaction have you heard from the business... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

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Mead Treadwell

November 8, 2016

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell

October 6, 2015

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

First Look: November 15

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Accounting Red Flags or Red Herrings at Catalent? (A)

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

First Look: February 6, 2007

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

Commencement 2017 Address | About

The Entrepreneurial Venture

First Look: July 1

First Look: May 17

Rival Visions

US Competitiveness at Risk