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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
Financial System, Professor David Moss’s course on the history of financial panics. It draws parallels to the current crisis. Consumer Finance, jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and HLS professor Howell Jackson, examines the laws and View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
post-crisis menu of regulations by and large has been effective.” Layne: How do the stock markets come into play here? They are setting records. Greenwood: It's not just the credit markets that are doing well, the stock market is also...
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- 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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Real estate: emerging markets
financial market stability and sustained market access by emerging market borrowers. Regulations Doing Business Data and analysis that measures the business environment of more than 180 countries and selected cities around the globe....
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- Student-Profile
Fanele Mashwama
in similar questions. “There are several people in the program who think about the questions that matter to me, such as how to ethically regulate financial markets with a look to real outcomes,” Fanele says. However, it’s just as...
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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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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs imposed by environmental regulation from the 1960s. This argument was primarily based on empirical evidence from the United States. It...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
when planning their capacity portfolios. David Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's long-run technology choice and capacity decisions.
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- 05 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom
stakeholders and discussed the potential role of policy regulations and incentives in helping companies reach net zero goals. The next day, students were invited to a question-and-answer session with Heather Henriksen, Harvard...
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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
already public acquirer - remains a critical step in corporate transformation by private equity investors and innovation by venture capitalists. Because public capital markets play such a key role in the global economy, government View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
doing my job and what the rules and regulations and my job description dictated. And that was the point when I sat down and I thought, there must be thousands of other women in the world who are facing very similar challenges in their...
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- 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
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
their increased tendency to behave fairly. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/shaw et al.pdf Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Georgetown...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and View Details