Cartel - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

that can secure our independence, going far beyond the $8 billion clean energy program proposed by the Obama Administration for 2011. It is time to stop paying a $175 billion annual ransom to a cartel that robs us of the resources we need... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

operations. We finance these industries with private capital, set national and local regulations, encourage competition and discourage cartels in order to lower prices and increase quality (i.e., driving safety up and environmental impact... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

doctors and hospitals to remove the cartel and guild aspects of medicine and put more of the purse strings directly into the consumers' hands " Addressing incentives, Tom Dolembo suggested that "We should pay doctors well who... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

Co.: Breaking New Grounds Harvard Business School Case 807-004 Examines the strategies of a Boston-based start-up to market Rwandan coffee. Describes the history of the coffee industry, the era of cartelization and the International... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

inefficient local industries, including construction and food processing, they will not become competitive. The traditional Japanese government approach has been to believe that if, say, the chemical industry was ailing, it should step in and fix the industry.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

former chairman Alan Greenspan for holding interest rates too low for too long, which inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate like a cartel without... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

North-South freight transport suggest that if the cartel were broken, railroads would have passed through 50% of their cost savings from standardization, generating a 10% increase in trade on the sampled routes. The results demonstrate... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

still had to justify its existence through profits. He hired the best engineers available, yet expected them to run their areas of responsibility with commercial acumen as "ordinary businessmen." He despised cartels and gained a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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