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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development

can share their experiences on IPaidaBribe.com. In its first six months, the website received 250,000 hits and logged 5,000 bribery reports. Healy urges business leaders to take action by enforcing strong anti-corruption policies that... View Details
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Reshaping Competition

Antitrust Law by Areeda and Hovenkamp Federal Agencies: Department of Justice – Antitrust filings Department of Justice – Antitrust Division Federal Trade Commission – Enforcement overview Federal Trade Commission... View Details
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • News

HBS Startup Is Developing Tech-Enabled Jewelry to Stop Rapists

(Photo courtesy of Flare Jewelry) Is it possible to create a personal-safety device that can stop a physical assault, call for help, and collect evidence for the police? And be fashionable? Those are questions HBS students Sara de Zarraga and Quinn Fitzgerald (both MBA... View Details
Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political pressure by the government as a response to voters' general interest in protecting employment is reflected in the enforcement actions by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Online Harassment | About

personal harassment of such a character as to amount to grave disrespect for the dignity of others.” Those who may have experienced doxing should consult School-based processes for enforcing the USRR or contact their local designated... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Agent of change

Working in law enforcement made Skovran notice inefficiencies in the way the government approached societal problems. "I became interested in finding more effective ways to reduce crime and violence," she says about her decision to pursue... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

performing functions traditionally relegated to government. Yet these potential cost efficiencies from market competition are often offset by poor enforcement quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

mandatory reporting. Serafeim and Ioannou also measured the incremental effects of two additional variables: effective enforcement of government decisions and assurance of data in the reports by independent organizations. They found that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 23 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

if the ultimate enforcement mechanism seems so far-fetched? “By understanding why people make mistakes, it may help you creatively design an approach to resolve these disputes” Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Hong Luo looks at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • February 1987 (Revised August 1989)
  • Background Note

United States Trade Law

By: David B. Yoffie
Examines the manner in which U.S. trade law and policy has evolved, with emphasis on trade in manufactured goods and services as well as the relationship between the executive and the legislature. The structure and content of U.S. trade law is discussed including a... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Machinery and Machining; Policy; Law Enforcement; Outcome or Result; Business and Government Relations; United States
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  • 02 Dec 2017
  • News

The Lines That Divide America

exchange for hard work is now both limited and unevenly granted,” he writers. “Worse yet, white working-class citizens perceive others—mainly minorities and immigrants—to be unfairly cutting ahead of them in line. And members of the white working class believe the... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Europe and Africa because property rights are more difficult to enforce there. —Walter Kuemmerle The first difference is the development of capital markets and the transparency of these markets. In countries where family-owned... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 29 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

include arrogantly ignoring cease-and-desist orders from cities trying to enforce local business regulations, allegations of drivers attacking customers, and sexual harassment complaints from employees about the company’s... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
  • July 2008
  • Article

Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream'

By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Law Enforcement; Mathematical Methods; Personal Characteristics; United States
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  • 14 Mar 2007
  • Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

whole, and that to proscribe it based on fears of anticompetitive consequences would be a substantial mistake. Of course, if firms engage in price-fixing or market division, the Justice Department has every reason to step in. The worry, though, is that the antitrust... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

enforcement is more casual and selective than in the United States and Europe. Even so, the most telling tribute to the wisdom and efficacy of the American antitrust system has been its widespread emulation abroad. The task of defining... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Who Pays for White-Collar Crime?

By: Paul Healy and George Serafeim
Using a proprietary dataset of 667 companies around the world that experienced white-collar crime, we investigate what drives punishment of perpetrators of crime. We find a significantly lower propensity to punish crime in our sample, where most crimes are not reported... View Details
Keywords: Crime; Gender Bias; Women; Women Executives; Corruption; Legal Aspects Of Business; Firing; Human Capital; Human Resource Management; Prejudice and Bias; Crime and Corruption; Judgments; Law Enforcement; Human Resources; Corporate Governance; Gender
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  • 22 Apr 2019
  • News

Keeping an Eye on Things

combating terrorism. “We are responsible for maintaining a gallery of biometric information and then performing the matching and the analysis, sometimes within milliseconds. And we do know that much of the work that we do verifying does help law View Details
Keywords: Biometrics
  • 16 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’

sound of birds and the sun peering through my blinds; I soon head over to the neighborhood gym, located in the garage of the Law Enforcement quarters. 8am – Coffee is brewing at the office. My co-consultant and I have an office in the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government