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  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

was rented out and at what price. Rentrak monitored the scanner data and performed audits and spot checks to monitor compliance with the revenue-sharing contracts. Fifty years ago, Narayanan added, the movie industry did almost the same... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

external events in the late 1990s, accelerated dramatically with the accounting scandals of the Enron era plus the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, and then continued to change under the pressure of shareholder activism. There's a lot more attention paid to non-fun stuff... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

increased federal regulations and compliance costs. The demands on universities mount each year. There are innovations to pursue and everyday activities to preserve all while trying to keep everything affordable and ensure financial... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

balanced manner." It would be important to determine how often physicians feel pressured into prescribing drugs inappropriately.— Joel Weissman Although persuasion may be desirable from a medical perspective, just under half of our respondents agreed that DTCA... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • Web

1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

student’s continued enrollment and/or residence; or (b) the student’s readiness to return to the Harvard community. The agreement to engage in treatment may include, among other things, compliance with a medical treatment plan, regular... View Details
  • February 2016
  • Supplement

The Maggi Noodle Safety Crisis in India (C)

By: Karthik Ramanna and Radhika Kak
The local government in Delhi has ordered a ban on Nestlé's flagship product in India—Maggi Noodles, citing excessive lead content per government lab tests. Nestlé disputes the government tests, noting that internal and third-party tests show the product to be safe.... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Globalization; Regulation; Customer Relations; Business And Government; Safety; Leadership; Food; Multinational Firms and Management; Governance Compliance; Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business and Government Relations; Food and Beverage Industry; Delhi
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  • August 2012
  • Supplement

Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (C)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Lobb
The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery and corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an employee of one of the JV... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Crime and Corruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Compliance; Law; Joint Ventures; Business Subsidiaries; Government Legislation; Rail Industry; Nigeria; United States; United Kingdom
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  • January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
  • Background Note

State, The

By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Surveys approaches to understanding the state; highlights the relationships between the state, order, and property; and offers an analytical framework for how states vary from place to place and over time. View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Governance Compliance; Framework; Economic Sectors; Policy; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Development Economics; Equality and Inequality
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  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

same reasons as above — fresh perspective and added insight when it comes to bigger picture discussions. Security and compliance are often overlooked and where investors can probably draw on their own or other resources to ensure your... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

reward firms for practices that go above and beyond the requirements of the law. "Self-policing" programs adopted by several agencies shift the burden of monitoring regulatory compliance and reporting noncompliance from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 14

continuing compliance with evolving laws and regulations? Will its rapid growth be sustainable? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-028 Legal Hazards of Product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

manufacturing compliance services company to the U.K. and Europe. He has to decide whether to hire Wayne Snelgrove and how to define the scope of his responsibilities. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

a palliative care program. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615052-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case PEL-073 Between Compliance and Support: The Role of the Commonwealth in District Takeovers No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July/August 2004
  • Article

Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: An Institutional Framework

By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
Despite burgeoning research on companies' environmental strategies and environmental management practices, it remains unclear why some firms adopt environmental management practices beyond regulatory compliance. This paper leverages institutional theory by proposing... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Environmental Management; Adoption; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Structure; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Framework; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

Framework Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Risk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

5.1 Information Technology | MBA

process When necessary to ensure compliance with HBS or University policies To maintain or prevent damage to the Resources To maintain the operation and security of the Resources Please be aware that: Because student and participant data... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Supercharged

EVs want to conquer the mass market, they’ll need to, well, crush it. Until recently, the EV market had a high end and a low end—but no real middle. On the one hand, there was Tesla, which entered the market from the top. On the other, there were so-called View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 29

as Compliance Experts, Engaged Toolmakers, or Technical Champions, depending on the communicability of the tools and on the extent to which the experts are involved in practices related to those tools. Our study contributes to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

selection, and creating separate committees for professional practice, ethics, and compliance and operations; and enhancing its ethics and compliance program through human resource processes (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation

balance? Collecting more race-related data on employees might be a good start, the authors say. Between 1966 and 1983, to track compliance with the Civil Rights Act, the EEOC began collecting data on the racial makeup of firms with 50 or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman