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  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

patent protection. Improvement in the enforcement of patent rights. Improvement in the administration of the patent system. On paper, fifteen of the sixteen countries we studied improved IPR along at least four of the five dimensions. In... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

their increased tendency to behave fairly. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/shaw et al.pdf Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Georgetown... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

No-action letters could be helpful tools, as they would allow regulators to assure lenders that new products, or partnerships, are legal and that no enforcement action will be needed. 4. Shine a light on bad actors with better data on... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

model). This model is used currently by a few of the smaller raters, but it has two main drawbacks. First, it relies heavily on the ability to enforce property rights to information that is very easy to spread. Second, it precludes wide... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California’s retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a system of price-fixing, then known as “fair trade.”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

U.S. firms and foreign firms from strong rule of law countries show a positive association between restatement frequency and internal control weaknesses. Firms from weak rule of law countries show no significant association. We interpret these findings as home country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

to do so may allow these rivals to gain advantage through illicit strategies, particularly under institutional regimes where regulatory monitoring or enforcement is weak," the paper states. For government agencies, the findings... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • Web

RCS Policies - Research Computing Services

http://vpr.harvard.edu/ . Our computing infrastructure is a shared resource, supporting concurrent access by many users. As a result, RCS must enforce some basic guidelines for behavior and interaction to provide each user with the... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

within the FBI and archival analysis of Congressional testimonies from 2001 to 2013, we trace how top management shifted the design and identity of the FBI from those of a law enforcement agency to those of a national security... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly—beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

likelihood of valuable outcomes. However, the methods you'll use will differ from, and sometimes conflict with, methods that work when you do know where you're going. There is an increasingly important category of work—knowledge work—that you can best manage by not... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code law countries, consistent with... View Details
  • September 2022 (Revised November 2022)
  • Case

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: Trade and Genocide in U.S.-China Relations

By: Jeremy Friedman and David Lane
On June 21, 2022, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) went into effect, requiring companies to prove that goods imported from the People’s Republic of China were not made with forced labor. The bill was a reaction to reports of products being made with... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government Legislation; International Relations; Labor; Wages; Law Enforcement; Law; Rights; Operations; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; China; United States
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  • 28 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

retailers, including Gap Inc., Target, and JCPenney, that took place just a year and a half before the fire: At the meeting in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, in April 2011, retailers discussed a contractually enforceable memorandum that... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

learn if a standardized and institutionalized organizational learning process like SFP can enhance dynamic capabilities. The SFP model is illustrated with an application to Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division. 2006 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

welfare-enhancing reforms, on the ability of firms and households to write contracts, and on the ability of citizens to enforce their basic rights. How Does Investor Sentiment Affect the Cross Section of Returns Authors:Malcolm Baker,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

After the Fall

financial stability in countries worldwide—information that researchers hope could help prevent a potential crisis. Regulations have also helped enforce resiliency, including a measure forcing banks to hold at least twice—in some cases... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 09 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

it's less clear how companies sway the regulatory agencies that enforce them, which are more isolated from the direct effects of money or persuasion. “If a company can get enough farmers to support the product and they write letters, then... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 13 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

overhead often causes support function employees to go on the defensive, attempting to prove their worth by becoming corporate bureaucrats who enforce sometimes meaningless rules in an attempt to affect the bottom line. This unfortunately... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

technologies allow information to flow seamlessly and invisibly across national borders, they make it very difficult for governments to do many of the things to which they have grown accustomed. Governments can't patrol their physical territories in cyberspace; they... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar