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  • September 2022
  • Article

Energy Innovation Funding and Institutions in Major Economies

By: Jonas Meckling, Clara Galeazzi, Esther Shears, Tong Xu and Laura Diaz Anadon
Accelerating energy innovation for decarbonization hinges on public investment in research, development and demonstration (RD&D). Here we examine the evolution and variation of public energy RD&D funding and institutions and associated drivers across eight major... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Energy Policy; Government Legislation; Energy Sources
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  • December 2008 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Special Economic Zones in India: Public Purpose and Private Property (A)

By: Laura Alfaro and Lakshmi Iyer
In 2005, the government of India enacted the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) Act in order to attract investment, generate export revenues, and create manufacturing jobs. However, several planned projects faced difficulties in acquiring land for setting up the SEZ. In... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Development Economics; Economic Growth; Policy; Government Legislation; Property; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; India
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  • 07 Jul 2020
  • Blog Post

The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

education taught in RC and 1L; these frameworks serve as foundations for further research and analysis. For example, our research has relied on property, torts, legislation and regulation, business valuation, strategy, and international... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change

warn that the government’s ability to pass legislation to stabilize the economy reflects a familiar pattern where an emergency forces a temporary “semblance of bipartisanship” only to return to “business-as-usual political brinksmanship... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks after the Department of... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health
  • October 2008 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Executive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008 (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and Lisa Brem
The credit crisis of 2008 placed compensation practices at publicly traded firms in the United States under scrutiny. This case examines perceived excessive pay and severance packages at several firms implicated in the credit crisis of 2008, the executive compensation... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Governing and Advisory Boards; Government Legislation; Executive Compensation; United States
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  • 10 Mar 2014
  • News

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

Keywords: Government
  • 19 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

spending. Real estate costs are high. The taxation and legislation system is complex and difficult to navigate. Vijay Jain said he left a "cushy" job in investment banking to take advantage of the huge potential promised by... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail
  • Web

Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

item in the collection is the memoir Jay Cooke wrote late in life. Also noteworthy are the agreements Cooke made with other firms, in particular an 1869 contract between Cooke and the Northern Pacific Railroad. Collection Guide View Details
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

opportunity to develop themselves, to make a contribution, and to work well with their peers. What's your opinion about corporate tax shelters? Abusive tax shelters are a major problem, and the Treasury Department has proposed new View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 28 Jun 2010
  • HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

in-house education program on improvement science that emphasizes rapid cycles of small-scale change. Their finding that an accumulation of small changes can add up to significant gains is leading the way for health-care reform that is just as revolutionary as its... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Strange Bedfellows

estimates are that a 15 percent tax on reported GAAP profits would be revenue-neutral for the government. A tax with a lower rate on a more sensible base is a central lesson of economics. Legislators would also be restricted to changes in... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government
  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Immigration will be a central issue in the upcoming US presidential election, just as it motivated the recent snap elections in France. After all, the number of migrants rose 27 percent to 281 million globally in 2020, compared with 2010, according to United Nations... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • February 1998 (Revised December 1998)
  • Case

Atlantic Energy/Delmarva Power & Light (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mathew M Millett and Tracy Aronson
Delmarva Power & Light and Atlantic Energy are neighboring electric utilities based in Delaware and New Jersey, respectively. In early 1996, they entered into merger negotiations, but were unable to reach an agreement on price because they could not agree on what... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Negotiation Offer; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Mergers and Acquisitions; Contracts; Utilities Industry; Delaware; New Jersey
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  • 19 May 2015
  • News

Getting Ready for Success

Leanne Huebner (MBA 1997) was just out of college, working at her first job and volunteering her free time with foster children when a little girl asked: “Will you adopt me?” Just 22 and single, Huebner wasn’t in a position to raise children. But she committed herself... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Services
  • 23 Jun 2020
  • Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

Katherine M. Gehl, founder of Institute for Political Innovation, and Harvard Business School strategy expert Michael E. Porter. Among the reforms put forward by Gehl and Porter is a nonpartisan congressional legislative system that rises... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

Egalité, Sororité: How Should France Achieve Boardroom Parité?, authored by Groysberg and Hilary Fischer-Groban. The case discusses how French legislators pondered a bill, proposed in 2009, that would mandate businesses to have women in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

Disney or Pixar. Instead, anime producers are locked into a highly fragmented domestic market, dominated by content distributors (TV stations and DVD companies) and advertising agencies. We argue that Japan has to adopt legislation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

doing so, researchers randomized conditions to sometimes also mention the legislation was opposed by Cook, or by another CEO, a politician, or just by “some people.” When simply asked whether they supported the law, there was a 50/50... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 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