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- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
onto patients. To work, a public plan must be regulated and have independent governance, and, if it is well-designed, it might inspire competition from private insurers—leading to better value for patients. Regina E. Herzlinger, The Nancy...
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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of labor View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
financial stability in countries worldwide—information that researchers hope could help prevent a potential crisis. Regulations have also helped enforce resiliency, including a measure forcing banks to hold at least twice—in some cases...
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- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
to negotiate the Brexit endgame, she might well consider three lessons from Wilson’s futile diplomacy during his last year in office. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55708 2018 Yale Journal on Regulation...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
children. Volvo's latest goal is that no one should die in a Volvo car after 2020. Most firms just quietly test their products and services, receiving the blessing of Underwriters Laboratories, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or the local fire department....
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- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
statements, Facebook has lobbied against further regulation by government, typically ranking in the top 10 US spenders on lobbying efforts. What’s the solution? To Facebook’s credit, it has been partnering with government and...
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by George Riedel
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
product, it can affect the entire supply for that brand. China implemented stricter food safety laws in April 2015, but the country may not have enough qualified enforcement staff. And inspectors don’t always enforce regulations as...
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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports and imports) to GDP ratio...
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by George Serafeim
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
and consequences. Boards and managers cannot simply be regulated into managing their companies in a responsible manner. Here’s an idea we might try. The United States has gotten a lot of mileage out of having a constitution, a set of...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
Numenta, Inc. “Given how instantaneously information moves, regulators can never possibly move fast enough to create real change.” —Jim Breyer (MBA ’87), Partner, Accel Partners “If you have fifty scientists, you don’t need 150 projects....
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
computer industries, in which interfirm and international rivalries are intense. The other three consortia - Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Gas Research Institute (GRI), and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) - draw their membership from View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
the product of long, structured deliberation. As for the decision to let AIG pay out its controversial bonuses, regulators simply refused to address the issue until events had moved beyond their control. And going back even further, few...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Core Values Keep Airline Flying High
Airline Industry Program at MIT, an initiative examining how major commercial airline carriers are facing the challenges of their rapidly changing industry. Staying on top of an industry facing more regulation (including the Airline...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100 edited by Arthur Daemmrich and Joanna Radin (Chemical Heritage Foundation) In a period of rapid scientific and market changes, success in regulating food products, prescription drugs,...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
report “The politics industry is different from virtually all other industries in the economy because the participants themselves control the rules of competition,” write Gehl and Porter. “There is no truly independent regulation of...
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- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
collateralized debt obligations or derivatives, that contributed mightily to the financial market meltdown in 2008. So the question arises, would the Volker Rule really prevent another financial crisis? HBS professor David Moss argues that View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
building an organization. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/496023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-051 Tapestry Networks Tapestry Networks assembled industry leaders and their regulators in small, private meetings to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
case involves an insurance CEO choosing between different designs for a variable annuity product in light of hedging, marketing, and pricing issues. The case provides students with background on the economics and regulation of life...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
regulation of new technologies across several centuries. In 1994, when I first started on Ruling the Waves, an MBA student asked me to do a project with him about the emergence of the Internet. Since I'm a political scientist, I said I'd...
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by Jim Aisner
- Web
Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
Securities Law – Operating in the Securities Markets Day 14: Regulation of the Securities Market Module 3: Starting & Growing Businesses Day 15: Breaking Away – Covenants not to Compete Day 16: Coming Together – Forming a Business Day 17:...
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