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- 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
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action more urgent than ever. This is... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
far? A: While the Dodd-Frank Act outlined a broad blueprint for a revamped federal regulatory structure, the details have yet to be determined. The legislation created a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to better protect... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
That’s incredibly innovative. But some of the regulations don’t address—or sometimes even prevent—this innovation. The legislative process is slow and cumbersome, and to have these regulations not be able to be responsive is a mistake. My... View Details
- 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
Kong, Edward, and Olivia Zhao. "Market Exclusivity and Innovation: Evidence From Antibiotics." Working Paper, December 2023.
- 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
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Joseph Piotroski. "Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings." Journal of Accounting Research 46, no. 2 (May 2008).
- October 2010 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
AEP: Carbon Capture and Storage
By October 2010, American Electric Power, the largest coal-fired, electric utility in the United States, had been operating a carbon capture and sequestration pilot plant for one year. Using a proprietary, Alstom chilled ammonia technology, AEP was capturing and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Government Legislation; Technological Innovation; Partners and Partnerships; Projects; Decision Choices and Conditions; Environmental Sustainability; Problems and Challenges; Utilities Industry; United States
Vietor, Richard H.K. "AEP: Carbon Capture and Storage." Harvard Business School Case 711-036, October 2010. (Revised July 2013.)
- July 2017
- Teaching Plan
'Clarín Lies!': Bias, Post-Truth, and Populism in Argentina's Media War
By: Rafael Di Tella and Sarah McAra
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-008. View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
Eric Werker You spent much of 2009 to 2011 in Liberia advising President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf while on leave from HBS. What did you learn from that experience? Good ideas and great strategies are cheap and easy; what's expensive and difficult is implementing change.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
what should the State be doing. What's should the State agencies be doing, what should the Georgia legislature be doing, both budget wise and legislatively. And we were very happy that when the first few months of releasing that white paper, George passed two key... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The State of Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation
- 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
Vogel, David, Michael W. Toffel, and Diahanna Post. "Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States." Chap. 9 in A Handbook of Globalisation and Environmental Policy: National Government Interventions in a Global Arena, edited by F. Wijen, K. Zoeteman, and J. Pieters, 247–276. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
A Definitive Guide to the Brexit Negotiations
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
difficult for people who have been incarcerated to find jobs and rent apartments,” he notes. “Politically, I’m fairly conservative—a quintessential free-market capitalist. But our Dignity of Work task force is working closely with the ACLU on criminal justice View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
cosponsoring a piece of major legislation with a member of the opposing party at least once a year. Barcott says studies show veterans make open-minded lawmakers. They’re used to working collaboratively, which makes them more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
their companies are international, still do not know enough about markets and business practices abroad. Similarly, recent American presidents, presidential candidates, and legislative leaders have shown an appalling lack of knowledge and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
day they arrive for overnight delivery. Mixon has also turned Invacare's talents and resources into other activities that help its customers. For years the company has lobbied for the passage of legislation like the Americans with... View Details
- March 2009 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
UBS and Auction Rate Securities (A)
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Shawn A. Cole and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai
UBS, a global financial services company, must decide whether to continue to support the market for Auction Rate Securities in the face of a growing financial crisis. These instruments, underwritten by UBS, were marketed to clients as highly liquid and safe... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Financial Crisis; Asset Pricing; Financial Liquidity; Financial Instruments; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
Bergstresser, Daniel Baird, Shawn A. Cole, and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai. "UBS and Auction Rate Securities (A)." Harvard Business School Case 209-119, March 2009. (Revised September 2011.)
- 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