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- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
winner is Amy Kadomatsu (MBA 1998), CEO of ComplySci, a leading RegTech company providing compliance solutions to more than 1,200 financial services and professional services companies globally. For the entrepreneur sector, the winner is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
employees of the chairman and CEO. Ethical Discipline What Skilling and chairman Kenneth Lay failed to understand as leaders is that compliance with espoused ethical and legal standards is an organizational achievement. Or to put it... View Details
- Web
Terms of Use - HBS Online
uploads. In some Programs, users may contribute by speaking or appearing on camera, and User Content may include transmissions or recordings of a user’s voice and/or image. You agree that you will use the Services in compliance with the... View Details
- February 2002
- Case
Strategy of the Firm Under Regulatory Review: The Case of Chilectra
By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Alexander Dyck
Discusses the largest electric distribution company in Chile and one of the five largest private Chilean companies. Introduces the exercise of operating control in order to improve the profitability of the investments, privatization, and international expansions. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Growth and Development Strategy; Privatization; Emerging Markets; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Global Strategy; Governance Compliance; Utilities Industry; Chile
Di Tella, Rafael M., and Alexander Dyck. "Strategy of the Firm Under Regulatory Review: The Case of Chilectra." Harvard Business School Case 702-025, February 2002.
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
obtained from the Internet. Furthermore, many businesses use a third-party designer, whom is presumed to have cleared related rights. Motivating copyright compliance on the Web is complicated by users who don’t know they are violating the... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
momentum for the NCF’s founding. Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a cybersecurity and compliance solutions and services company, says that 19 founders launched the NCF, “but it could easily have been 100.” Among many Black and brown... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
- Background Note
Capital Controls
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Laura Alfaro
Only in the waning years of the 20th century did international financial markets begin to enjoy the freedom from government regulation that they had experienced before the first world war. By 2002, international capital markets had grown to be enormous--$1.2 trillion... View Details
Keywords: History; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Governance Controls; Governance Compliance; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; Network Effects; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Laura Alfaro. "Capital Controls." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-082, April 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
- 2013
- Working Paper
Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia
By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai
Since Durkheim, sociologists have believed that dense network structures lead to fewer norm violations. Coleman (1990) proposed one mechanism generating this relationship and argued that dense networks provide an opportunity structure to reward those who punish norm... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Publishing; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Societal Protocols
Piskorski, Mikolaj J., and Andreea Gorbatai. "Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-055, December 2010. (Revised September 2011, March 2013.)
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
going to get a sit-down with the CEO,” says Eugene F. Soltes, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research focuses on corporate misconduct and compliance systems. “So these... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
which toolmaking was not central, and those to which toolmaking was important. As for the influence activities that imply toolmaking, we can outline the contours of three modes of operation, which describe experts operating as Compliance... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
their own operations, shifting enforcement resources away from voluntary disclosers. We also find that firms that voluntarily disclosed regulatory violations and committed to self-policing improved their regulatory compliance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
be satisfied with current process compliance measures and overly broad metrics covering hospitals as a whole. What is needed is true outcomes, medical condition by medical condition, that will guide choice of providers and enable... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
environmental performance. We hypothesize that key organizational characteristics reflecting visibility, such as size and environmental impact, shape this type of symbolic compliance and that these relationships are moderated by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
initiatives that go beyond compliance with national standards. We also started undertaking innovative programs on wastewater effluent reuse as part of our water recycling efforts, as well as energy-efficient projects to reduce our carbon... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
111.3 million subscribers, could see a profit increase of at least $28 million from a single retention campaign if it applied their approach. Gupta says the method could be applied in nonprofit areas to predict, for example, patient View Details
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
that emphasizing an activity’s health risks might encourage compliance better than imposing blanket restrictions. “If the opening up messaging was, ‘Yes, we will allow you to do this because we respect individual freedom, but you’re... View Details
- Web
1.16 Student Educational Records | MBA
violation of rights of students under FERPA may be submitted in writing within 180 days to the Family Policy Compliance Office, US Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20202-5920. View Details
- October 1992 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Edward Prewitt
Allied-Signal, Inc., one of the world's oldest chemical companies and today a diversified conglomerate, is liable for clean-up costs of old hazardous waste sites. These costs are substantial: reserves grew to nearly $500 million in 1991. Attempting to avoid further... View Details
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Environmental Sustainability; Programs; Cost Management; Policy; Government Legislation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Governance Compliance; Legal Liability; Chemical Industry; United States; Europe
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Edward Prewitt. "Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk." Harvard Business School Case 793-044, October 1992. (Revised August 1994.)
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
Capital, says George Floyd’s brutal killing, the Black Lives Matter movement, and a pandemic that “has blown disparities in race and income wide open” created momentum for the NCF’s founding. Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, a cybersecurity and View Details
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
performance perspective on conduct as opposed to a compliance mentality, Margolis says. "It's not just about thou shalt not, it's about taking a path of continual improvement." View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel