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- March 2002 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Price of Light, The: Privatization, Regulation and Valuation in Brazil
Asks students to produce a valuation for Rio Light, a Brazilian power company that is state owned and to be sold in March 1996. If successful, the privatization would bring in over $2 billion to the Brazilian treasury. But success was far from assured. Members of the...
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Keywords:
Valuation;
Energy Generation;
Privatization;
Corporate Governance;
Energy Industry;
Brazil
Dyck, Alexander. "Price of Light, The: Privatization, Regulation and Valuation in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 702-055, March 2002. (Revised July 2004.)
- January 31, 2022
- Other Article
Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?
By: Jonas Heese
Heese, Jonas. "Does Industry Employment of Active Regulators Weaken Oversight?" FinReg Blog (January 31, 2022).
- 2011
- Chapter
M&A Break Fees: U.S. Litigation versus U.K. Regulation
By: John C. Coates
Coates, John C. "M&A Break Fees: U.S. Litigation versus U.K. Regulation." In Regulation versus Litigation: Perspectives from Economics and Law, edited by Daniel P. Kessler. University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- 21 Oct 2022
- News
Climate Regulations Are About to Disrupt Global Shipping
- 2023
- Working Paper
Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation
By: Sam (Ruiqing) Cao and Marco Iansiti
The increasing availability of data can afford dynamic competitive advantages among data-intensive
corporations, but governance bottlenecks hinder data-driven value creation and increase regulatory risks.
We analyze the role of two technological features of data...
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Keywords:
Organizations;
Information Technology;
Performance Productivity;
Growth and Development;
Transformation
Cao, Sam (Ruiqing), and Marco Iansiti. "Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-122, May 2021. (Revised November 2023.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
Reappraisal Distance: Introducing a New Dimension of Emotion Regulation
By: A.W. Brooks and M.E. Schweitzer
- 2010
- Book
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation
By: Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss
After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory...
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Keywords:
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government and Politics;
Markets;
Business and Government Relations;
Research
Balleisen, Edward J., and David A. Moss, eds. Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- March 2002 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
RWE and the Proposal for a German Electricity Regulator
In April 2001, Dietmar Kuhnt, CEO of the German energy giant RWE, had to make a decision that would affect his company's future. Profits in the electricity sector depended heavily on regulatory rules that influenced industry structure and pricing. RWE had emerged...
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Dyck, Alexander, Jose Gomez-Ibanez, and Christoph Meier. "RWE and the Proposal for a German Electricity Regulator." Harvard Business School Case 702-053, March 2002. (Revised July 2004.)
- 11 May 2021
- News
Law Firms Are Building A.I. Expertise as Regulation Looms
- 2010
- Working Paper
A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A model is developed that rationalizes contracts that give depositors the right to obtain funds on demand even when depositors intend to use these funds for consumption in the future. This is explained by depositor overoptimism regarding their own ability to collect...
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Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Insurance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Consumer Behavior;
Financial Services Industry
Rotemberg, Julio J. "A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 16620, December 2010.
- October 18, 2021
- Article
To Regulate Network-Based Platforms, Look at Their Data
By: Chiara Farronato and Daniel Björkegren
Historically, antitrust authorities have taken a laissez-faire approach under the assumption that it is better to err on the side of not intervening when there is uncertainty. This has allowed companies like Google and Facebook to go on a shopping spree to acquire...
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Keywords:
Antitrust Issues And Policies;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Digital Platforms;
Competitive Advantage;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Innovation and Invention;
Information Technology Industry
Farronato, Chiara, and Daniel Björkegren. "To Regulate Network-Based Platforms, Look at Their Data." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 18, 2021).
- 18 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
A Behavioral Model of Demandable Deposits and Its Implications for Financial Regulation
- 2023
- Article
Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation
By: Jonas Meckling and Jesse Strecker
Climate policy has entered a new era as public investment is increasingly moving to center stage, including recovery spending and long-term climate investment plans. While essential for decarbonization, public investment is not enough – the carrots of investment need...
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Keywords:
Government and Politics;
Environmental Regulation;
Climate Change;
Policy;
Motivation and Incentives
Meckling, Jonas, and Jesse Strecker. "Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation." Climate Policy 23, no. 4 (2023): 418–429.
- 2004
- Book
Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Keywords:
Health;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government and Politics;
United States;
Germany
Daemmrich, Arthur A. Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany. University of North Carolina Press, 2004. (Winner of Edward Kremers Award of the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy For best book in pharmaco-historical writing published in the previous two years presented by American Institute of the History of Pharmacy.)
- July 2024
- Teaching Plan
Business Implications from Regulating Carbon Emissions in the EU
By: George Serafeim
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 122-106.
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- 24 Sep 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Regulation on Strategic Positioning: Self-Regulation in the RTE Cereal Industry
Why Do Firms Respond to Environmental Regulation the Way That They Do?
A regulator’s ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is a vital lever in achieving long-term sustainability. How a firm will respond to such regulation depends, in part, on the expected cost of noncompliance, which is a product of the stated... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System
By: Juliane Begenau and Tim Landvoigt
How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended consequences of capital requirements. A key...
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Begenau, Juliane, and Tim Landvoigt. "Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-140, June 2016. (Revised July 2016.)
- 1993
- Chapter
Operation and Regulation in Financial Intermediation: A Functional Perspective
By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords:
Financial Markets;
Operations;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government and Politics;
Financial Services Industry
Merton, Robert C. "Operation and Regulation in Financial Intermediation: A Functional Perspective." In Operation and Regulation of Financial Markets, edited by P. Englund. Stockholm: Ekonomiska rådet (Sweden), 1993.
- 2008
- Book
Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant
By: Michel Anteby
Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated...
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Keywords:
Crime and Corruption;
Moral Sensibility;
Governance Controls;
Production;
Organizational Culture;
Practice;
France
Anteby, Michel. Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant. Princeton University Press, 2008.