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- 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... View Details
- 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.... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
writes. "By this definition, sustainability is intimately linked to the fundamental preoccupations of business managers: productivity, investment, and profit." Building on this logic, Reinhardt asserts that managers concerned about sustainability should support the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
transparent and globally standardized methods of corporate governance. Dozens of countries worldwide, each representing different degrees of involvement of legal systems and regulators in corporate governance, were studied by Harvard... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
from their income taxes. Third, the government should make sure that everyone buys health insurance, regulate health insurers to ensure honesty and financial stability, and monitor the quality of information, just as the SEC does for the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
systematizing a business so it will run without the owner’s hands-on attention; and dealing with government, especially over tax and regulation matters. These concerns, Bowen told his audience, closely conformed with those expressed by... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
Europe passed laws resembling America's Sherman Act. The European Community in particular instituted stringent regulations designed to break down trade barriers and maximize interfirm competition within and across national boundaries.... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head demands for access and asset transfers are a growing menace. Will anonymity be relinquished... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
the game—and some minds—when it comes to fossil fuels and the future. "We can create an industry and put some new options on the table," he says. "My hope is that we can build some extremely profitable carbon-management EOR projects and make it clear to industry, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution
algae Nannochloropsis gaditana and uncovered a group of genes responsible for regulating oil production. By tweaking one of those genes with the powerful editing tool known as CRISPR, the team ultimately doubled the amount of oil produced... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
fact is that in many parts of the world, firms are not privately owned, and markets are regulated in various ways in all countries. Still, we found that most people we talked to understood the differences between the system we find in... View Details