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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the...
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- 21 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
East Asia MBA Market Update
have traveled during the past six months, with a focus on the Asian private equity market. China In December 2013 Chinese regulators lifted the 14 month moratorium on IPOs and also put in place new procedures for how companies can go...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
It was a milestone to celebrate: Earlier this year, designations from FDA and European Union regulators moved researchers at the Boston-based startup Akouos, Inc., a step closer to producing the first-ever therapy for gene-mediated...
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Deb Blagg
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
operator adjusts the oven because it "doesn't sound right" and prevents a disaster. A steel alloy salesperson who has kept his eye on emissions regulations knows what "the next big thing" in furnace manufacturing will be long before it...
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Judith A. Ross
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
changing media landscape is going to be resolved in the United States, and I think the interest in trying to regulate the big social media companies is all related to this part: We don’t know exactly how to think of them. It also used to...
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- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
and wellness company,” the kind that can thrive in a world where regulators may look at Butterfingers not so differently from Benson & Hedges. If this vision is realized, a visit to the family doctor in a decade’s time might end with a...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
In an effort to understand the role that suppressing or exaggerating emotions has on employees, HBS assistant professor Laura Morgan Roberts and a colleague from the University of Toronto, Stéphane Côté, set about to measure the relationship between emotion View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
personal data industry, must reexamine the company's business model after a serious breach of data security affecting some 145,000 U.S. citizens. He must decide on steps to strengthen data protection in the company and clarify his stance on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
narrative more broadly. In many ways, Africa is home to contradictory trends – trends that are rooted in the present and past. On the one hand, Africa's old margins are new frontiers, where mobile, globally-competitive capital (increasingly from the Global South) find...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
opportunity to differentiate the company and its products. It can also elicit positive reactions from government officials and regulators on important business issues. Q: It's clear that nonprofits get financial benefits from partnering...
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by Carla Tishler
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
businesses. Such companies gain advantage because regulators tend to look to the most technologically advanced operations when setting industry standards. On the whole, larger and more prominent firms are most likely to need, want, and be...
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- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
illustration of this omission, Apple, a US consumer electronics manufacturer, publicly resigned in 2009 from the US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobbying group in the country. "Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas...
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- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
public-private partnership model that increases US economic growth and helps create access and opportunity for all Americans. Related reading: Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending. The State of Small Business...
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by Karen Mills
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
regulation are essential to limit the harm, as well as the reputational and financial damage. But governance and regulation exist on pendulums that swing to and fro, and may overshoot in one direction and...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
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Policy - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Policy From obstruction to leadership For much of the last 50 years, powerful segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. The fossil fuel industry in particular, seeing View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
such investments have already begun to percolate. Are these concerns warranted? If history is any guide, foreign investors in the United States have more to worry about than domestic regulators do. The singular fact about foreign direct...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
private companies, the USPS has to have even its best ideas reviewed by regulators and contested by competitors. But inevitably making tough choices about technology to create new services has to be market-driven, in spite of the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
dire need for US federal policy to address climate change. RH: When you look at Europe, you see many companies agitating for some kind of carbon regulation and beginning to shift their business models in this direction. If you expect your...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
the scenes or as formal references. In many European countries, some strong regulations have been adopted to force this diversity in recent years. Do you see an opportunity here to support diversity through regulation? —Laurence Batlle...
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- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection View Details
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Sean Silverthorne