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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
risk, price for it. In many cases, inability to buy insurance can be an absolute deal breaker to launching one of these businesses. You can always start by overcharging. What types of regulations do you think help the View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
1911 HBS establishes the Bureau of Business Research to write cases. 1922 Founding of Harvard Business Review (HBR). 1930s Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger conduct pioneering studies establishing the importance of field-based View Details
Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
initiative Northern Trust has piloted—that birthday picture is a contract, and your sister is the PE firm’s general partner. The limited partners get to see only their investment; the lawyers get to see only the transactions for the parties they represent; and the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
have the ability to change the law to further their business strategy. When statutes or regulations stand in the way of strategic objectives, the most effective route can be to push back in legitimate ways. For example, companies can... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
report “The politics industry is different from virtually all other industries in the economy because the participants themselves control the rules of competition,” write Gehl and Porter. “There is no truly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
elsewhere that regulation can provide the legitimacy and order that nascent industries need in order to grow. Are there any calls for regulation from within the baby business... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
put them into bankruptcy because it was too small for them to worry about and didn't want to go through the fuss of a chapter 11. So they readily agreed to a deal with us where we acquired control. AW: How was government regulation... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
power have been virtually stagnant for decades. Two incomes are required where one used to suffice. Jobs and entire industries have gone overseas. The trade deficit has grown enormously. Tax codes have become skewed to the very wealthy.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
feared—but Japanese emergency crews were able to replenish the spent-fuel pool water in the nick of time, preventing massive evacuation of Tokyo. US regulators took notice. In 2012, Popik and Mott cofounded the nonprofit Foundation for... View Details
- 15 Apr 2011
- News
Students Hear Wall St. Critics
sheer power, arrogance, and swagger,” he said of the financial industry and its political and lobbying clout in Washington. “My biggest takeaway was the extent to which financial services drive the economy, and how much of it was just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
chief regulator of America’s securities markets. To make matters worse, Donaldson hardly had time to settle into his new job before revelations surfaced of wrongdoing in the mutual-fund industry, triggering a new round of regulatory... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
offered again in 2019. Through case discussions and interactions with 15 alumni guest speakers, most of whom traveled from Africa, students explored multinationals, regulation and compliance, public-private partnerships, and what makes... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100 edited by Arthur Daemmrich and Joanna Radin (Chemical Heritage Foundation) In a period of rapid scientific and market changes, success in regulating food products, prescription drugs,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose “systemic risk” — the risk that a failure of one institution... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Buy, Lie, and Sell High by D. Quinn Mills Prentice Hall Any investor or person involved in America's financial-services industry will be interested in Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. In... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
during HBS’s four-day Wintersession, and will be offered again in 2019. Through case discussions and interactions with 15 alumni guest speakers, most of whom traveled from Africa, students explored multinationals, regulation and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the fringes? Robert Huckman: What we’ve seen is at least a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
modern container shipping, the ship is really a relatively small part of costs,” observes McCown. “Everything ship-related might only be 30 percent of the carrier’s total cost. The biggest cost is fuel.” Both economics and environmental View Details