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  • 22 Sep 2015
  • News

Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems

energy, and also community involvement. And as a deputy majority whip, you have the opportunity to take a leadership role and actually work with all of your colleagues to make sure that they have the information they need to make the best decisions possible on View Details
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
How did southern whites respond to the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we document that... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Race; Behavior; Voting; Prejudice and Bias
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  • 11 May 2015
  • News

What It Will Take to Fix America’s Crumbling Infrastructure

Keywords: infrastructure; leadership; innovation; government policy; women in business; Transportation
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Market Exclusivity and Innovation: Evidence From Antibiotics

By: Edward Kong and Olivia Zhao
The US incentivizes drug innovation via patents as well as market exclusivity periods awarded by the US Food and Drug Administration. We estimate the causal effects of extending market exclusivity for an important drug class: antibiotics. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • May 2008
  • Article

Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Joseph Piotroski
In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of all listing events onto U.S. and U.K. exchanges... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Government Legislation; Market Transactions; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States
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  • 28 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

the new competitiveness council created by the White House and would give President Obama an occasion for convening the business community to request specific commitments. Governors and mayors could follow suit. No new government funding or View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 25 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

universities. In this excerpt, they discuss the idea of a university's DNA. In the absence of a disruptive new technology, the combination of prestige and loyal support from donors and legislators has allowed traditional universities to... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
  • June 2023
  • Case

ByteDance: TikTok and the Trials of Going Viral in 2023

By: William C. Kirby, Noah B. Truwit and John P. McHugh
In March 2023, Chew, with an army of well-paid U.S. lobbyists and TikTok creators, descended on Washington. In his testimony, he planned to highlight the 150 million daily active American users on TikTok and how the platform had benefitted small business owners and... View Details
Keywords: Social Media; International Relations; Government Legislation; China; United States
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  • 2003
  • Chapter

La tragédie de la thalidomide: affaires judiciaries et résponses législatives, 1959-1971

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Keywords: History; Courts and Trials; Government Legislation; Health Disorders; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • June 2006
  • Article

Enlarging the Societal Pie Through Wise Legislation: A Psychological Perspective

By: Jonathon Baron, Max Bazerman and Katherine Shonk
Keywords: Society; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Health; Perspective
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  • 14 Dec 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation

Keywords: by Karen Gordon Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 2005
  • Chapter

Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States

By: David Vogel, Michael W. Toffel and Diahanna Post
The United States (US) and the European Union (EU) are federal systems in which the responsibility for environmental policy-making is divided or shared between the central government and the (member) states. The attribution of decision-making power has important policy... View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Climate Change; European Union; United States
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  • 05 Aug 2016
  • News

A Definitive Guide to the Brexit Negotiations

Keywords: Brexit; immigration; international trade; negotiation; Government
  • Web

Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

trying to establish the first hospital in the 1980s, as well as the motivations that helped him persevere. Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Founder of MphasiS and Value and Budget Housing Corporation, explains how years of creating new View Details
  • 16 Jul 2014
  • HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

healthcare legislation in the US ensured that it would be complex and tough to sell to the public, Quelch says. But that was just the problem: Congress and the Obama Administration didn't sell it. "Fundamentally, it's a marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

repeatedly declared fiscal emergencies as California's state budget deficit reached all-time highs. The Governor and legislative leaders established the Commission on the Twenty-first Century Economy to recommend tax reforms that would... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 3, 2024
  • Article

How Automakers Can Address Resistance to Self-Driving Cars

By: Stuti Agarwal, Julian De Freitas and Carey K. Morewedge
Research involving multiple experiments found that consumers have biased views of their driving abilities relative to those of other drivers and automated vehicles. These findings have implications for the adoption of partly or fully automated vehicles, which one day... View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Consumer Behavior; Government Legislation; Prejudice and Bias; Auto Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Patch Work

The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

likely to be impacted by government legislation and regulation and the least prepared to help shape the rules. —Watkins, Edwards, & Thakrar Businesses cooperate to create economic value; they compete to distribute or claim the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar