Enforcement - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

committed to a bowl) too early. But the NCAA gave up trying to enforce this after 1990, when Notre Dame very publicly agreed to go to the Orange Bowl when there were still four games to play in the regular season. Unfortunately for Notre... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

with the responsibility to enforce rules may penalize transgressors more harshly when they are faced with a conflicting motivation to be lenient. Specifically, we test how transgressors are punished when it is their birthday: a day when... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

16 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

per visit on the site. But MySpace and its rivals have also come under fire from law enforcement officials, policymakers, and parents, who worry that they are a haven for child predators. Given that backlash, is MySpace a safe bet for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

exploiting inefficiencies in the legal system regarding how we define and enforce intellectual property rights." Add to those inefficiencies the fact that patents are not like other kinds of property, where ownership is clear-cut.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

of managers and shareholders. Takeovers were favored as a means of enforcing the urgency of such alignment. At about this time, according to Khurana, deregulation came along that both made it possible and more tempting for agents to act... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

institutions, in chronological order. The first story deals with a policy-making process at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The second deals with an administrative legal proceeding regarding anti-trust enforcement by the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

accountability at the project and policy levels since the early 1990s, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But there remain major shortfalls.... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18

in order to enforce the accountability of corporate entities and governments for past injustices in Switzerland forms the basis of this study. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/913037-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-018... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

loans to small firms and those with more "soft information"—particularly in states with weak legal enforcement of financial contracts. However, decentralized banks are also more responsive to the competitive environment when... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

help enforce it." The result is high efficiency in the legislative capacity, particularly in economic areas, he said. Mauritius has what he called "a partnership" between business and government. Business communities can... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

raising money from the very people that they would otherwise be called upon to criticize and condemn," Mills concluded. While he praised the breadth and depth of the conference sessions—which covered topics from enforcement to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

05 Jul 2011
News

The Business of Champions

a second shift as a Bruins TV analyst.) Baumgartner, who also served as a Bruins assistant coach for one year, had a twelve-year career in the NHL. He overcame relatively modest abilities by becoming a rugged enforcer and hard-working... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

monitor their own regulatory compliance and voluntarily report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive dataset for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

interest in enforcing consistency in order to build their brands. On the other, their business models are predicated on the ability to empower professionals to deliver services independently. The key word to understanding this brave new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

Possibly taking a page out of the USAA playbook, several Wall Street organizations are trying to enforce a policy to prevent employees from working seven-day weeks, encouraging them to take either Saturdays or Sundays off. There is little... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

The House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement met recently to hash out concerns related to the H-1B program, one of the most controversial of foreign visa topics in the United States. At issue was a stubborn question that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

Serkes Valora Technologies Inc. "We find the needle in the haystack," said CEO and President Sandra Serkes. Her company has a patent-pending computer server, the Linkify Information Connectivity Server, that works to ease the "pain points" for... View Details